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The legend Soumitra Chatterjee breathes his last at the age of 85

Kolkata: In the late 80s came a Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay novel 'Nana Ronger Aalo'. Still a school student with a deep desire to make films, the novel caught my attention. It had everything. A young hero,...

How soccer’s loss became Hollywood’s gain

For over a month, the 1965 film The Hill was on my watchlist. I kept pushing back, for a variety of reasons. Saturday evening, I played the film some minutes after its lead Sir Sean...

Jagdeep aka Soorma Bhopali: An actor who stood out among giants passes away

The garrulous, greedy, timber merchant was present on screen for barely five minutes, yet the character gave an immortality that is destined to only a select few. It happened with Amjad Khan. It happened with...

Saroj Khan: A trailblazer who helped the stars to dance their way into the hearts of millions passes away

The image of Sridevi drenched in an almost-blue saree crooning to the voice of Alisha Chinai as a now-here and now-nowhere Anil Kapoor wooed her in a much-mellowed voice of Kishore Kumar in Mr India...

A young star with a pleasing smile, Sushant Singh Rajput has left behind his unfulfilled dreams…

Mumbai/Kolkata: Sushant Singh Rajput on Sunday joined the list of actors taken too soon. The Internet Movie Database (IMDB)’s list of actors who could not turn 40 has 95 entries. Death is never easy to...

Basu Chatterjee: A Master Story-teller

About 22-odd minutes into Pankaj Parashar’s Jalwa, Naseeruddin Shah and Pankaj Kapoor get off a taxi driven by Javed Khan who is looking for one Basu Chatterjee—Rajni wale. The taxi driver is upset with “Rajni...

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Glorious Triumph for Indian Girls in Inaugural U19 T20 World Cup – Women’s Cricket in India Ready for Big Leap!

The Indian Under-19 Women's Cricket Team scripted history by thrashing England and lifting the maiden ICC U-19 Women's T20 World Cup 2023. At Potchefstroom...

PM Modi, when 19 cr becomes 100 cr, its either magic or fantasy!

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it appears, lives in his own fantasy world. He fantasises something about his achievements and then starts believing it to...

Wife of Tabrez Ansari, whose lynching case was raised at the UN, seeks justice from Jharkhand govt

Ranchi: Jharkhand, which had witnessed around 30 mob lynchings between 2016 and 2020, is again witnessing a rise. Within a week two people got...

रघुबर सरकार से आर-पार की लड़ाई के मूड में झारखंड के पारा शिक्षक, एक महीने से बेमियादी हड़ताल पर 70 हजार शिक्षक

रांची: बीते सोमवार को देवघर के पारा शिक्षक उज्ज्वल राय ने आखिरी सांस ली। 15 नवंबर को झारखंड स्थापना दिवस के मौके पर मुख्यमंत्री...

National Commission for Scheduled Tribes serves notice to Jharkhand DGP and Gumla SP in Dumri lynching case

Ranchi: National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has issued a notice to the Director General of Police, Jharkhand and the Superintendent of Police, Gumla...