FILMMAKERS – BENGALI CINEMA

Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, music composer, graphic artist, lyricist, and author, widely ...

Tapan Sinha

Tapan Sinha was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time, remembered for films like Kabuliwala ...

Gems from Bengali CINEMA

Antarjali Jatra (1987)

Antarjali Jatra is a 1987 Bengali film directed by Gautam Ghose. Based on a novel named Mahayatra, by Kamal Kumar ...

Bancharamer Bagan (1980)

Bancharamer Bagan is a 1980 Bengali film directed by Tapan Sinha. Adapted from a play ‘Sajano Bagan’, this ...

Nagarik (1952)

Nagarik (Eng: The Citizen) is a 1952 Bengali film by Ritwik Ghatak, one of the stalwarts of the Indian Art Cinema. ...

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Partap Singh remembers Sukhdev

Sep 13, 2022

Sukhdev was certainly the greatest Indian documentary film-maker that ever lived. A gentle, a clown, an extraordinary friend, Sukhdev had no pretension to him, He could not brook pettiness, puffery or prudery.

Mohan Joshi Haazir Ho! (1984)

Apr 23, 2022

Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! is a 1984 Hindi film directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza. Based on a story penned by Mirza, the film tells the story of an elderly couple who decide to take on the corrupt nexus of the rich and the law and pay dearly.

Paar (1984)

Apr 16, 2022

Paar is a 1984 Hindi film directed by Goutam Ghose, with Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi in prominent roles. Based on the Bengali story ‘Paari’ by Samaresh Basu, the film tells the story of a Dalit couple forced to flee their village after a massacre and their ordeal and quest for homecoming.