Category Archives: Bangla

Thoughts on the harrowing ‘Partition’ experience and its reflections in Cinema and other arts…

 

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The Myth Of Regional Cinema’s Market Potential and Audience

This was going to be a comment on Sethumadhavan’s post on regional cinema. As my comment was getting longer, I thought it would be great to write a post. Here are my views on regional film and why it is failing to reach out.Continue reading “The Myth Of Regional Cinema’s Market Potential and Audience”

Posto: Trailer

Releasing on 12th May, Posto is the the latest film from the noted director duo of Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee. Riding high on the success of back to back blockbusters, Bela Seshe (2015) and Praktan (2016), Posto is produced by Probhat Roy, Ganpati Productions and Windows and has music by Anindya Chatterjee and Anupam Roy. Gopi Bhagat is the DOP and Malay Laha is the editor. The star cast includes Soumitra Chatterjee, Jisshu Sengupta, Mimi Chakraborty, Lily Chakraborty, Paran Bandopadhyay etc. Continue reading “Posto: Trailer”

The Best of Indian Cinema in 2016: A Perspective

Let me begin by honestly admitting that 2016 was a lukewarm year for Indian Cinema, at least that would be something that I firmly believe in. Be it Bollywood/Hindi cinema or any of the regional language film industries, things were largely subdued for a major part of the year. Be it businesswise or with respect to the quality of output, 2016 definitely seemed to lag behind 2015, forget going anywhere beyond that for a comparison. It’s not that the year was totally beyond redemption, there were some positives as well, but they were not sufficient enough to completely lift up the spirit of Indian cinema overall. Let’s begin by taking a look at Bollywood to start with. 2016 saw only 2 big blockbusters, Sultan and Dangal, none of the other successful films were runaway hits as such. So while Salman Khan and Aamir Khan delivered big time with Sultan and Dangal respectively, SRK came up with Fan which met with a mixed response, while gaining back some traction with one of the better Hindi films of the year, Dear Zindagi.Continue reading “The Best of Indian Cinema in 2016: A Perspective”

Double Feluda: Trailer

double-feluda-posterDouble Feluda is an upcoming Bengali language crime thriller drama film, based on the Bengali sleuth Feluda, created by the acclaimed and renowned Oscar– winning director Satyajit Ray. Directed by the latter’s son Sandip Ray, the film marks the comeback of both Sabyasachi Chakraborty and Saheb Bhattacharya, with the former returning to the iconic of Feluda and the latter playing his sidekick, Topshe. The film is reportedly said to be released for Christmas, 2016 to mark the 50th anniversary of the iconic creation. After going with Abir Chatterjee as Feluda in Badshahi Angti (2014), Sandip Ray has gone back to Sabyasachi and Eros International has stepped in as the producer. Sirsha Ray is the DOP and Subrata Roy is the editor, the original Feluda theme music by Satyajit Ray has been retained in the film.Continue reading “Double Feluda: Trailer”

Byomkesh Pawrbo: Trailer

byomkesh-pawrbo-posterWith Har Har Byomkesh Arindam Sil also jumped into the Byomkesh Bakshi bandwagon (Anjan Dutta being the other filmmaker making Byomkesh movies regularly) and that proved to be a successful outing. After leaving a mark earlier this year as director with Eagoler Chokh, the follow up film to his previous hit, Ebar Shabor, Arindam is back with another Byomkesh film-Byomkesh Pawrbo. This is based on Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay‘s ‘Amriter Mrityu‘. The film sees Abir Chatterjee, Ritwick Chakraborty and Sohini Sarkar reprise their roles as Byomkesh Bakshi, Ajit Bandyopadhyay and Satyabati respectively. The rest of the star cast includes Sayantika Banerjee, Rudranil Ghosh, Sumanta Mukherjee, Subhashis Mukherjee, Rajatava Dutta, Koushik Sen, Supriyo Dutta, June Maliah, Padmanabha Dasgupta etc.Continue reading “Byomkesh Pawrbo: Trailer”

Chitrokar: Trailer

chitrokar-posterSaibal Mitra‘s Bengali film Chitrokar aka The Last Mural is part of the Indian Panorama section at the ongoing IFFI 2016 at Goa. It is also featuring in the competition section at the prestigious International Film Festival of Kerala which is scheduled from 9-16 December. Produced by Pranab Kanti Purkayastha, written and directed by Saibal Mitra, Chitrokar features Dhritiman Chatterjee and Arpita Chatterjee in the lead along with Arun Mukherjee, Mrinal Dey, Pradip Kumar Ray, Debdoot Ghosh, Subhrajit Dutta etc. The film has music by Pt. Tejendra Narayan Majumdar while Asoke Dasgupta is the DOP and Sumit Ghosh is the editor.Continue reading “Chitrokar: Trailer”

Zulfiqar: Trailer

Zulfiqar PosterZulfiqar is a forthcoming Bengali crime drama from Srijit Mukherji which is based on adaptation of two of William Shakespeare’s tragedies: Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. Produced by Shree Venkatesh Films, the film has a huge ensemble cast comprising of Prosenjit Chatterjee, Dev, Parambrata Chatterjee, Jisshu Sengupta, Ankush Hazra, Koushik Sen, Rahul, Arunoday Banerjee, Kanchan Mullick, Nusrat Jahan, Paoli Dam, Kyra Dutt, June Malia. Soumik Haldar is the DOP while Anindya Chatterjee is the editor. The songs are composed by Anupam Roy while the backgorund score is provided by Indraadip Dasgupta.Continue reading “Zulfiqar: Trailer”

Shaheb Bibi Golaam: Trailer

Shaheb Biwi Golaam PosterPratim D.Gupta is a film journalist who turned filmmaker with the Bengali film Paanch Adhyay (2012) and made one of the segments of X: Past is Present,is now ready with his next film Shaheb Bibi Golaam. The film has had a protracted battle with the CBFC and finally got its certification a few weeks ago. Shaheb Bibi Golaam features Anjan Dutt, Swastika Mukherjee, Ritwick Chakraborty and Parno Mitra in the main roles.Produced by Firdausul Hasan and Prabol Mitra, the film has music by Anupam Roy while Gairik Sarkar is the DOP and Sanjib Dutta is the editor.Continue reading “Shaheb Bibi Golaam: Trailer”