There is a scene in Aparna Sen’s Arshinagar where Julie, dressed in pristine white is resting on an indoor swing and humming a tune, lost more
Devdas onwards a few components have been a given in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's filmmaking spectrum. Particularly, that he will put a personal more
Arindam Sil’s Har Har Byomkesh is one of those films which even bring the bar of mediocrity to such a low that makes it next to impossible to more
Very soon a day will come when the English language vocabulary will fall short, describing the facets of Bengali Cinema. With the kind of visual more
There seems to be a gross misconception when it comes to detective fiction. More than often it is freely interchanged with the idea of a thrillermore
X: Past is Present have been mistakenly described as an anthology film. The narrative actually deals with a filmmaker and his experiences with more
Srijit Mukherjee’s Rajkahini is tale of an elite brothel, which had seen better days to be evicted out in the wake of the India-Pakistan partitionmore
Right within the first few minutes of the film, Babar Naam Gandhiji manages to do something that contemporary Bengali Cinema inevitably fails tomore
Another day in the theatre… Another Bengali film… Another excruciating test of one’s patience and sensibility! With each passing day and with eachmore
As a cinematographer working in the movie world, Amlan Datta considers his director nothing less than a God. According to him, a directormore
Talking about the allegation that documentary films exploit the misery of the people as subject, Amitabh Chakraborty stresses that onemore
The trailer of Srijit Mukherjee’s Rajkahini is 3 minutes 15 seconds long! The world has seen eloquent and well-expressed short films by scores whimore
Churni Ganguly’s award winning film Nirbashito has been received in the public domain as a film on Taslima Nasrin while the director has beenmore
The trailer of LUDO, the latest film by Q co-directed with his long time collaborator Nikon has the director’s signature smudged all over it. more
Talking about digital filmmaking, Tuhinabha Majumdar feels that other than only a minor increase in numbers, there hasn’t been any digital explosion in cinema as such.more
Writing such detailed accounts of films is not entirely within my forte but I am making an exception this time for the sake of ‘Kaahon’.more
While Aditya Vikram Sengupta agrees that actors were important for his film, but not their acting per se; mere suggesting as opposed to expressing and revealingmore
Talking about the new releases in Bengali Cinema, Indranil Roychowdhury vehemently attacks the prevailing practice of copying the models of Southmore
The trailer of Debaloy Bhattacharya’s Roga Howar Sohoj Upay promises the Bengali cine goers a film that will finally deal with something thatmore
Aditya Vikram Sengupta sounds candid and open talking about the overall writing and film production process of his debut film Labor of Love.more
The godfather of new Indian cinema rings his own death bell through his biggest disaster in the recently released Bombay Velvet. Expectations weremore
Owing to its status of mass entertainment media, films are often wrongly perceived and misinterpreted as an easy way out for fame, success more
Shoojit Sircar’s Piku is about a hypochondriac 70-year-old man (Amitabh Bachchan) and his 30 year old, no-nonsense, independent minded daughtermore
At present, the educated urban class of people affected by ‘folk foreign’ syndrome considers Mansamangal, Chandimangal, Bidyasundar or even more
Sudip Ranjan Sarkar doesn’t consider his debut feature film Unformung, as a film; but rather as a pursuit of truth and knowledge. He describes of the filmmore
For Anindya Chatterjee, making a film like Jhumura is probably a result of his deep engagement with folk forms especially music.more
Right from the announcement of the project to the first trailer and till the release of the film, Dibakar Banerjee’s ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy’ more
Talking about his film Jhumura, filmmaker Anindya Chatterjee delves deeply and passionately about Jhumur Gaan, the folk music from Purulia.more
Talking about his debut feature ‘Labour of Love’ (Asha Jaoar Majhe) Aditya Vikram Sengupta confesses that his decision about making a film on this idea more
JHUMURA- the folklore…more
Beyond love and hate, resides fear, perhaps the strongest of all emotions. What makes it so strong is probably the fact that it acts as a counterpmore
Brilliant! Disturbing! Brilliantly disturbing! Mindboggling!more
Amlan Datta insightfully reflects upon the status of cinema and cinematography in the media & entertainment industry as it has entered the digitalmore
The film Cosmic Sex obviously had lot of expectations to meet. First, of course is the name. It suggested lots of titillation and had lots more
Talking about making a film, Pradipta Bhattacharya speaks vehemently against today's conventional and mainstream practice of making cinema here.more
Jhu-mu-ra. Jhu-mu-ra. The word itself makes you want to sing, dance, feel.more
What’s common between Karl Marx, first kiss, peto boma, rong borof, ‘half pant’ dating ‘frock’, Sonali Sibir, local candy floss, good looking nighmore
Given the oeuvre of filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, Ugly marks a significant shift in his style, especially as a follow up to his epic crime sagamore
But the fact remains that PK is Hirani's weakest and most flawed film. Yet, it succeeded. I think the reason lies in the message that it conveyed.more
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