Nimai Ghosh

Director Debaditya Bandopadhyay’s short film ‘2 Taka’ marks the return of former TMC MP and actor Tapas Pal as he plays the lead in this short film. ‘2 Taka’ explores the burning issues associated with financial fraud in recent times.

Nadia police found the body of a youth from Bahadurpur forest under Dhubulia police station in Nadia district on Sunday morning.

The priceless find includes negatives of 100 hitherto unseen photos clicked by Satyajit Ray, over 1,000 unseen negatives of working stills from the sets of the master’s early movies, and letters and telegrams from stalwarts of cinema such as Frank Capra, Arthur C Clarke, Akira Kurosawa and Richard Attenborough.

The director, who wrapped up the shoot of Shivaratri recently, has already begun his next — ShobBahika

Monographs on Raja Paranjpe, Himanshu Rai, nimai ghosh and Hiralal Sen will finally be published after a wait of over 15 years.

Trinamool Youth Congress Burdwan district president Bikash Choudhury has claimed that Durjodhan Sar, CPM's Katwa zonal secretary, had planned the murder. Choudhury is absconding at present.

A pride corner was carved out in the Nandan complex on Monday, in the form of an exhibition with the focus on Bengal's 100 years in Indian Cinema.

A Bengali film is competing at a film festival in America that is awarding Will Smith and Nicole Kidman and screening films by Benedict Cumberbatch, Javier Bardem and Kristen Stewart.

An assistant sub-inspector and a police driver have been suspended for breaking service rules during the accident on BT Road on Thursday afternoon. Both are from the wireless branch of Kolkata Police. Joint CP (headquarters) Jawed Shamim has confirmed the suspension.

MALDA: Seven months after a high court verdict, the families of two persons who died in the Malda court lock-up got compensation last week.

Among the many critical patients that doctors at MR Bangur Hospital have successfully treated in this pandemic is a 53-year-old who was admitted with acute respiratory distress on July 22. However, doctors encountered a strange problem while treating Subrata Roy. Even though his oxygen saturation level improved, he feared he would suffocate if taken off oxygen support. Ultimately, his friends — one of them a Covid doctor at a different government hospital — helped wean him off supplemental oxygen.

Nineteen years after Satyajit Ray breathed his last in 1992 at the age of 70, cine buffs in the city continue to mourn the passing away of the legendary director.

A Bengali feature film — ‘Manikbabur Megh’ (MM) — has been selected to compete at the Firebird award of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF). This is one of Asia’s oldest international film festivals and was founded in 1976.

History is created, written and sometimes, half-written.And as far as the contribution of Bengali filmmakers to Indian cinema is concerned, the history is surely half-written.

The 'Only Satyajit' exhibition in Kolkata, supported by The Bengal and others, will be inaugurated by filmmaker Sandip Ray. Curated by Chandranath Chatterjee, it will showcase materials related to Satyajit Ray, including contributions from Debayanee Ray.

The two-time Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul, who had wanted to seek refuge in acting after being released on bail in February, is finally staging a comeback. On Sunday, Paul will begin shooting for Debaditya Bandopadhyay’s short film titled “Du Taka” starring Krishnakishore Mukherjee, nimai ghosh and Soma Chakraborty.

Policemen left a man dying on BT Road on Thursday morning and “fled” the scene of an accident, rebuffing pleas to help carry him to hospital. The 56-year-old victim died two hours later.

The ’80s saw a slump even though there were some seminal works by Gautam Ghose, Aparna Sen, Sandip Ray and Rituparno Ghosh. Commercial cinema, relying heavily on remakes, raked in the moolah though critical acclaim was hard to come by.

Her hollow, sunken eyes tell a poignant tale. The life had long gone out of her eyes, now 50-year-old Chameli Ghosh is speechless too.

The find includes negatives of 100 unseen photos clicked by Satyajit Ray, over 1,000 unseen negatives of working stills from film sets and letters and telegrams from stalwarts of cinema

Tollywood needs filmmakers who can push the boundaries. There is quite a bit of interesting experimentation going on but the need of the hour is to take bigger risks with form and treatment rather than banking on shock value

The buzz surrounding Srijit Mukherji���s ���Rajkahini��� has thrown up a question. Why has contemporary Bengali cinema largely neglected Partition as a subject? Refugee issues and trauma of displacement have almost disappeared from the big screen. The reasons, fear many, are not just involving the logistics of attempting such cinema.

If you love watching birds and butterflies at the Botanic Garden but wonder what species they are, here's a ready reckoner for you.

Cut to contemporary Bengali cinema and today, there is no dearth of filmmakers churning out intelligent and smartly-made movies.