One of the key persons of contemporary art house Bengali films, Sukanta Majumdar is an award-winning audiographer...more
Saibal Mitra’s Chitrokar begins with a disclaimer that it is not a biopic of either Benodebehari Mukhopadhyay or Mark Rothko...more
Amid an onslaught of competitions featuring mostly mediocre films or a largely overhyped selection of art house films from Europe...more
A chance meeting of a sales executive and a struggling filmmaker on a train journey becomes the starting point of...more
It is indeed like a rare alignment of celestial bodies when Takashi Miike releases his 100th film and it’s nothing short of a...more
Kadvi Hawa is a depiction of a dark and depressing reality in the backdrop of climate change and...more
The recently concluded Kolkata International Film Festival turned out to be the most obvious next step in the...more
Going beyond the value judgments of good, bad, exciting, offensive, etc., there are certain films which makes you wonder about...more
On the surface, Rakhee Sandilya’s debut film Ribbon comes across as a throwback to the ‘middle of the road’ cinema that...more
With the critical and commercial success of his debut film ‘Sahaj Paather Gappo’, Manas Mukul Pal as a filmmaker has become a household name. However...more
Rukh is the latest release from Drishyam Films who just recover form the halo of Oscar smeared Newton that released on 22nd September...more
If one considers the contemporary Bengali cinema, that is the films made in Bengali language, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s Doob undoubtedly shifts...more
এখনকার বাংলা সিনেমার নিরিখে যদি ভাবা যায়, অর্থাৎ বাংলা ভাষায় নির্মিত ছবি, তার যে দৃশ্যগত বা এমনকি আখ্যানগত দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি, মোস্তফা সরয়ার ফারুকী পরিচালিত ডুব ছবিটি...more
Let’s call a spade a spade. Ranchi Diaries directed by Sattwik Mohanty cannot really be called...more
“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the...more
Partha Barman has been quite a familiar name in sound department in Bengali film industry, known for his wide variety of work over the...more
The challenge of writing about a film like Newton (Amit Masurkar, 2017) is the difficulty to evaluate all its nuances and multiple...more
Chalochitro Circus - abominable, repulsive, offensive, detestable, terrible, awful, vile, horrendous, dreadful…one runs out...more
Cockpit is one of the 7 glorious sisters among the Bengali films released this Puja. It is special for several reasons. First it is...more
There is a perverse crimson joy, almost sadomasochistic in proportion, in experiencing one’s worst expectations being fulfilled, bit by bit and...more
In a dramatic moment in Srijit Mukherjee’s Yeti Obhijaan, members of Kakababu’s expedition group including Santu are terrified and...more
Many will recall (perhaps with a little bit of help) the iconic moment from the 90s blockbuster Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge...more
The trailer of Sohoj Pather Goppo was a pleasurable watch. Normally, images of rural Bengal remain absent from trailers of films. Trailers tend to become... more
সহজ পাঠের গপ্পো। এমনিতে ট্রেলার দেখে ভালোলেগে ছিল। গ্রাম বাংলার সাধারণ ছবি বাংলা ছবির ট্রেলারে সাধারণত দেখা যায় না। খুবই হুরুম ধুরুম করে আওয়াজ হয় আর ভিস্যুয়াল চচ্চড়ি...more
Cinematic adaptations of existing works of literature are always a tricky affair, although nothing new. In popular reception, especially if the...more
Imagine a cosy, private adda (gossip and chit chat) over drinks where everyone present belongs to the same line of work. Obviously, a number of...more
Babumoshai Bandookbaaz directed by Kushan Nandy from a screenplay by Ghalib Asad Bhopali is one of those instances where you have an... more
Every now and then one encounters a film which succeeds in making its mark due to its jaw dropping pretension and limitless stupidity lying...more
The main challenge regarding writing about a film like Arindam Sil’s Dhananjoy is that it is utterly forgettable. By the time one has walked out...more
In mainstream films as well as the popular imagination, the town of Gurgaon always comes across as a hinterland...more
Anirban Sengupta aka Potla started out as a musician along with fellow musician Dipankar Chaki aka Jojo in Kolkata and shifted to Bombay where they also worked...more
As Meghnad Badh Rahasya draws to an end, one of the primary characters called Kunal Sen who is a filmmaker by profession, vows to adapt...more
Four women of different ages, living in Bhopal, go beyond the so-called social norms, in their struggle to establish their identities but fail to...more
At some point, around the turn of the millennium, the idea of popular cinema mutated into some kind of an immersive experience within a larger multimedia...more
Surely Anurag Basu’s Jagga Jasoos has been one of the most enthusiastically received films in the recent times, especially among the urban, English educated...more
First-time feature film director Ravi Udyawar is actually no newbie. A gold medallist from J.J. College of Arts, Mumbai, he has worked as a commercial artist, illustrator...more
Subhadeep Sengupta is one of the most acclaimed sound designers based in Kolkata. His professional output has ranged from feature films, documentaries, and...more
Marvel and DC have been the twin pillars of the American Comic Book Industry. At the turn of the millennium, Marvel successfully ventured into Hollywood and turned their...more
There is a scene in A Death in the Gunj where 23 year old Shutu (Vikrant Massey) holds a magnifying glass on an insect against a leaf, focusing...more
“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”, comes the ominous and whispered proclamation of hubris from David, the synthetic android created by...more
Move along Srijit Mukherjee. This time it’s confirmed. A new pair of directors have emerged as the champions of Bengali...more
In one of the early scenes in Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s Tope, the eccentric hunter who is also the lord of the declining estate warns the filmmakers from the city...more
'Durga Sohay' is best enjoyed as an afternoon show with ice cream, cold drinks and generous helpings of cheese flavored popcorn. If you are Bengali, middle-aged, and...more
Arghya Basu graduated from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and studied at the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), specializing...more
Noor is 28, fun, overweight (in her own eyes), lacks a boyfriend, is a journalist forced to do foolish stories instead of 'issue-based' ones, and she hates her life - AND we get...more
For the past couple of years, women centric films seem to have become quite the staple with Bollywood. Across a spectrum of genres including drama, action...more
Remake of a film is a familiar phenomenon which can have interesting ramifications in terms of creativity, technology and capital. Often times these are actually intertwined or at least...more
Kaushik Ganguly has won the National Award once again, this time for Best Bengali Film with his latest release 'Bishorjon'. Strategically dished out on the eve of the Bengali New Year...more
‘Mukti Bhawan’ is this week’s freshest surprise. Young director Shubhashish Bhutiani’s take on life and death is a pleasant break from the bandwagon...more
In a film that is otherwise thoroughly entertaining (and in a positive sense), ‘Naam Shabana’ does pose that one mystery...more
The trailer of Jagga Jasoos by Anurag Basu is an epitome of what can be described as Bollywood. Hindi Cinema traditionally has been marked as...more
When it comes to the notion of woman empowerment in cinema, the situation in Bollywood is rather ironical. Just like with anything else, Bollywood...more
Survival films have been quite a staple with Hollywood for a prolonged period of time flourishing in the 1990s. Almost all of them dealt with the man vs. nature theme and...more
Considered by many as the greatest Indian cinematographer of contemporary times, Ranjan Palit has definitely been among the most prolific camera...more
The much awaited (largely by the urban Bengali audience) trailer for Begum Jaan, Srijit Mukherjee’s maiden venture in Bollywood remaking his own 2015...more
Well meaning but erroneous…that's what sums up Lion, the movie running to rave reviews across the globe. Two actors, Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman, are already...more
There is a popular saying about the recently deceased New-Hollywood filmmaker Michael Cimino that he sold his soul to the Devil for The Deer Hunter...more
Both Ranu Ghosh and Debalina Majumdar have carved out their respective niche areas as cinematographers in a profession and industry which has traditionally been dominated...more
The first impression one gets while watching Aparnaa Singh’s Irada (meaning ‘Intention’) is that it’s a much neglected and sadly unwanted younger sibling of...more
Sumit Ghosh is considered to be among the most seasoned editors of contemporary ties working both in the fiction as well as nonfiction formats. He passed out of FTII, Pune in 1990.more
Hindi Cinema traditionally had a great command over the melodramatic mode of address in films. Even if they didn’t always result in great films, it certainly left ...more
Shlok Sharma’s Haraamkhor possibly marks the worst film viewing experience in a theatre and that is no fault of the film! The extra cinematic aspects of moral policing and...more
There’s a predominant tendency noticeable in the student’s films during the early semesters of film and media schools. The young students who are freshly introduced to..more
It is more or less safe to comment that if there is one director who has consistently delivered the most memorable cinematic experiences within the parameters of mainstream Bollywood..more
Sankhajit Biswas is one of the most prolific and most sought after editor in nonfiction filmmaking in India. His works have been screened in IDFA...more
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