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Of Father, Brothers and an Unholy Hunger – Looking at Kaaka Muttai and Sahaj Pather Gappo

Manas Mukul Pal's debut feature Sahaj Pather Gappo released in September 2017 is quite different from the popular or even the parallel trends in Bengali cinema....

Critique

Ray’s Ravi Shankar – A Blueprint for Posterity

An Unfilmed Visual Script: Satyajit Ray’s Ravi Shankar is a very different and special book. It embeds within itself, a 32 page drawing book containing more than a 100 sketches by Satyajit Ray...

Critique

The Pather Panchali Sketchbook – An Intricately Delicate Entry into a Master’s Creative Mind

This was no traditional screenplay. Satyajit Ray 'drew' the script of his first film Pather Panchali in a sketch book, using the sketches as a visual guide when he started shooting eventually. The...
Indian Cinema Retrospectives

60 Years of Pather Panchali and Some Questions on Indian Cinema

The Society for the Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives commemorated 60 years of Pather Panchali with a seminar. A report on the star-studded event,

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