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One of the key persons of contemporary art house Bengali films, Sukanta Majumdar is an award-winning audiographer... 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
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
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
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Arghya Basu graduated from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and studied at the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), specializing... more
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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
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
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
Sourav Sarangi is among the most revered and acclaimed documentary filmmakers of India. After graduating from Film and Television Institute of India more
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Aditya Vikram Sengupta is fascinated by the power of the medium of cinema. For him, the excitement of making a film lies in the fact that it appears more
Tuhinabha Majumder has a very personal take on the idea of acting in films. He is quite vehemently against the prevalent practice of workshops bef more
For Aditya Vikram Sengupta, the main challenge of writing for films is in the fact that mostly it is an attempt of putting the abstract into langu more
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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
Talking about the new releases in Bengali Cinema, Indranil Roychowdhury vehemently attacks the prevailing practice of copying the models of South 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 film more
For Anindya Chatterjee, making a film like Jhumura is probably a result of his deep engagement with folk forms especially music. more
Talking about his film Jhumura, filmmaker Anindya Chatterjee delves deeply and passionately about Jhumur Gaan, the folk music from Purulia. more
Amlan Datta insightfully reflects upon the status of cinema and cinematography in the media & entertainment industry as it has entered the digital more
Talking about making a film, Pradipta Bhattacharya speaks vehemently against today's conventional and mainstream practice of making cinema here. more
Talking about changes in making a film, Debalina Majumder speaks about cinema travelling from big screen to mobile phones. And the change more
Indranil Mukherjee talks about the advent of digital in the movie world and argues that the essential difference lies in the discipline more
Anik Dutta looks at the experience of making his debut feature film ‘Bhooter Bhabishyat’ as a process of encountering and negotiating with more
Two young journos visit Purulia (in rural West Bengal, India). Their sole aim is to compile a research on `Jhumur`, the famous folk art form more
For Ranu Ghosh, the entry into the movie world was totally unexpected! With her academic background in Physics, it was rather her distaste for the more
In the this second part of Kaahon’s series on “Jai Shree Ram”, director Jul Mukherjee, talks about the rise of the right wing forces in the 2014 election. more
According to filmmaker Indranil Roychowdhury, the prevailing socio-political reality of our times is made up of contradictory circumstances. more
Talking about the ideas of making a film like Rati Chakravyuh, the ever experimental filmmaker Ashish Avikunthak dwells on his fascination with single takes since the early days of his artistic career. more
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Sharing his experiences of the film industry, Pradipta Bhattacharyya, the director of national award winning film Bakita Byaktigato, admits more
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