Indian Film Industry

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Ranjan Das GuptaNovember 10, 2023
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Bengal’s Cinematic Landscape: A Plea for Talent, Investment and a Commitment to Excellence

The past Durga Puja witnessed the release of a cluster of Bengali films that were mostly forgettable. “Dasham Avatar,” “Raktabij,”…
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Ranjan Das GuptaOctober 29, 2023
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Legacy of Mrinal Sen: Redefined Cinema with Political Narratives and Artistic Experiments

Mrinal Sen was directing parapsychologist Bimal Chatterjee in Kharij in the early 80s. Bimal Chatterjee already left a mark as…
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PratikSeptember 14, 2023
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Jawan SRK does everything he could to fight the dark times

Hundreds of films are made, therefore many become heroes. A lot of them become popular but only a handful scale…
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Deepak MahaanMarch 31, 2023
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Meena Kumari: Performer Beyond Comparison

Films are emotions unraveled in images. Greater the bond between the images and the emotions of a story, greater the…
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Ranjan Das GuptaDecember 21, 2022
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Amitabh Bachchan’s Statement and Freedom of Expression in Indian Cinema

At the inauguration of the Kolkata International Film Festival’s 28th edition, Amitabh Bachchan delivered a memorable speech. For the first…
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Ranjan Das GuptaNovember 27, 2022
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Bollywood and its divisions

Recently in an interview for a television channel, actor and director Parambrata Chatterjee lamented, “We now have a mutual admiration…
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Ranjan Das GuptaMay 13, 2022
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Remembering The Rebel Filmmaker

During the shooting of his thirteen-episode telefilm, Kitne Paas Kitne Door, Mrinal Sen said he discovered that the language of television was…
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Ranjan Das GuptaDecember 8, 2021
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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…
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Aditya MukherjeeApril 29, 2020
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Irrfan Khan believed in talent than mere looks

In the Eighties, when Irrfan was a teenager, people used to say he looked like the spitting image of the…
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Diganta GuhaApril 29, 2020
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Irrfan Khan- The unforgettable star of Indian cinema

“Teeno Khan Ko Takkar Dene Ke Liye, someone has arrived dude,” a legendary filmmaker had once paid ode to a…
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