A hand-picked basket of cherries from the world of most talked about books and popular posts on creative literature, reviews and interviews, movies and music, critiques and retrospectives ...
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A hand-picked basket of cherries from the world of most talked about books and popular posts on creative literature, reviews and interviews, movies and music, critiques and retrospectives ...
to enjoy, ponder, wonder & relish!
Gayatri Chatterjee explores three films by Tapan Sinha — Jhinder Bandi, Kshudhita Pashan and Jatugriha, examining how they portray love as an impossibility. It discusses...
Jatugriha by Tapan Sinha is one of the films that handled the theme of schisms in marriage with aesthetic sensitivity, technical finesse and, most importantly, strong social relevance. Gulzar's...
Suryatapa is a story of the resilience and indomitability of a woman emerging victorious against insurmountable odds. Antara revisits this Sandhya Roy-Uttam Kumar...
Gulzar voices his “deepest regard” for Sandhya Mukherjee, the Geetasri who never needed any Padma to become the voice of romance for generations. Ratnottama Sengupta explores how Gulzar...
Bengal's matinee idol Uttam Kumar and its most popular male singer-composer Hemanta Mukherjee together created a massive repertoire of songs that are remembered till today for their melodious...
Bengal's matinee idol and most popular actor Uttam Kumar had only a brief brush with Hindi films. But even in a space of a few films, he left a mark and some evergreen melodies for us to hum.
Uttam Kumar remains the biggest hero of Bengali cinema till date – a ‘Maha nayak’. 35 years after his death, his shadow still looms large on an industry which had a golden past but is now reeling under poverty...
Escape is a theme in both films, with the Beatles given more opportunity for and being much better at it than Arindam. His escape comes mostly in dreams, and even they turn dark after offering a few moments of...
Indian cinema and television has by now presented almost a dozen Byomkesh Bakshis. Filmmakers from Basu Chatterjee to Satyajit Ray, Manju Dey to Swapan Ghosal, Rituparno Ghosh to Anjan Dutt have made celluloid...