Nirbashito
When a writer (Churni Ganguly) is banished for her attack on religious fundamentalism and patriarchy, her cat is suddenly left alone. “Exile” and “banish” mean two different things. Being ‘exiled’ is a...
View ArticleNatoker Moto
Natoker Moto is a fictionalised reflection and projection of the tragic life of famous group theatre actress Keya Chakraborty. She died in1977 in a mysterious boat’accident’ during the location...
View ArticleAsit Sen
Asit Sen was the director of such well known films as Mamta (1966), Anokhi Raat (1968), Khamoshi (1969) and Safar (1970) in Hindi and Chalachal (1956), Deep Jweley Jai (1959), Swaralipi (1961) and...
View ArticleTeenkahon
Teenkahon (Three Obsessions) is a triptych directed by Bauddhayan Mukherji and produced by Monalisa Mukherji. It tries to capture the changing face of morality, the degeneration of values, the...
View ArticlePakaram
Pakaram brings the Bengal village back into the theatres through a maze of characters springing from the story of a ten-year-old boy Topu (Sham Maitra) who has been nicknamed Pakaram by the village nut...
View ArticleTapan Sinha
Tapan Sinha is the quintessential Bengali filmmaker in spirit and world-view. In a long and prolific career spanning almost five decades, Sinha’s works have varied in quality and genres but like a true...
View ArticleKabuliwala
Rehmat (Chhabi Biswas), a middle-aged fruit seller from Afghanistan comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise and befriends a small Bengali girl called Minnie (Tinku Thakur) who reminds him of his own...
View ArticleBabar Naam Gandhiji
Mahatma Gandhi has been the inspiration for many feature films down the years – as ghost, as part of a child’s subconscious memory, as an icon to be followed at every step, as the real man who is...
View ArticleAkaler Sandhaney
A film unit led by its Director (Dhritiman Chatterjee) arrives at a village called Hatui to shoot a film on the Great Bengal Famine of 1943 (Akal, in vernacular). The units shoots and resides in a...
View ArticleRajkahini
Rajkahini is a fictionalised historical drama that spells out an unique version of what happened to a group of women in a pocket within Rajshahi District (now in Bangladesh) during the application of...
View ArticleBappaditya Bandopadhyay
Though he made relatively few films over his span as director, Bappaditya Bandopadhyay’s films made quite a mark in international circles. He was soft-spoken, gentle and extremely grounded never...
View ArticleTulsi Chakraborty
Tulsi Chakraborty is undoubtedly one of the finest comic and character actors to have graced the Bengali screen. In a galaxy that includes comic thespians like Bhanu Bandopadhaya, Jahar Roy, Santosh...
View ArticleArshinagar
“A Musical Romance based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet” is the tagline on every poster of Aparna Sen’s Arshinagar (Mirrorland). Wrong. Arshinagar is the most sharply edged, incisive...
View ArticleMonchora
Monchora is a romantic family drama filled with humor, satire, intrigue and love centered on an old man surrounded by colourful characters with their personal axes to grind. Among them is an...
View ArticlePeace Haven
Three septuagenarian friends embark on a journey to build their own mortuary. Peace Haven opens with the death of an old man whose son is settled in the US and cannot come in time to light his father’s...
View ArticleBastushaap
Cinema is often defined as the willful suspension of disbelief. Kaushik takes off from this simple saying and takes his characters, the plot and consequently, the audience on a journey that enhances...
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Dada, Ami Bachte Chai
In 2008 when my sister was touring Japan, I asked her to carry DVDs of Yasujiro Ozu’s films. On her return, she told me she did not meet one person who had heard of him. I was heartbroken. Ozu was...
View ArticleMahanayika
Mahanayika translates as ‘superstar’, female. It is almost like a ‘looking back relaunch’ for Bengali cinema’s numero uno Rituparna Sengupta. Does this work? This is a difficult question to answer...
View ArticleTadanto
Tadanto means ‘investigation.’ Directed by Nitish Roy, who has won a string of National Awards for production design, Tandanto is a murder mystery focussed on two thwarted love stories. It brings...
View ArticleSohra Bridge
Basically, the story of late director Bappaditya Bandopadhyay’s Sohra Bridge – about a daughter coming from Kolkata looking for her father who never went back, sounds terribly cliché. But it is in the...
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