Tag: Sandip Ray
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Hatyapuri is not a classic but the film has some memorable cinematic moments
Bengali’s iconic sleuth Feluda is back on the silver screen. This time it is the suave and persuasive Indraneil Sengupta directed by Sandip Ray in Hatyapuri. Surely not a classic, the film has some memorable cinematic moments. Sandip Ray never takes his audience for a ride. Indraneil plays his character well. Yet it must be…
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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 crow film. To this, Mrinal Sen retorted sharply. Ray also wrote back with true spirit. Letters from both continued for quite some time after which The Statesman intelligently put a full…