Come January 2022 and film festivals will again charm you after the corona pandemic dreaded days
Kolkata: In January 1994, as IFFI being held in Kolkata, festival Director, Malati Sahay personally called and invited Chetan Anand to be a delegate....
Birth centenary of Chidananda Das Gupta, the most loved film critic
Kolkata: In 1948, Chidananda Das Gupta along with Satyajit Ray and Kamal Kumar Majumdar wrote to debutant director, Chetan Anand to visit Kolkata and...
Why Indian Cinema Misses Oscars
Kolkata: The latest entry for Best Foreign Language Film for Oscars from India is Koozhangal directed by PS Vinophraj. The jury chaired by eminent...
Asit Sen birth centenary: An unnoticed one
Kolkata: After the internationally famous trio of Indian cinema, Ray, Ghatak and Sen, Tapan Sinha, Ajay Kar and Asit Sen were directors who contributed...
When Rajesh Khanna could not dare to give third take before Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Kolkata: Hrishikesh Mukherjee was shooting the climax of Namak Haram. After two takes Rajesh Khanna requested the director for a third one. To this...
Remembering Satyajit Ray on his birth centenary
A war of letters in Kolkata’s leading daily The Statesman was published in 1965. Satyajit Ray criticized Mrinal Sen’s movie Akash Kusum as a...
