“For months, I had no job, no money, no food. My neighbours would offer me food sometimes and I survived on that. Later, the ward councillor and the West Bengal Motion Picture Artists’ For...

There are countless tales of people taking shelter under buildings during the rains and having chunks land at their feet from the fourth floor. Streets in the dark Residents claim that six months a...

Residents of Sukharia, a hamlet in Hooghly’s Balagarh, have demand an archive in the memory of filmmaker Mrinal Sen by restoring at least a part of the rundown zamindar’s palace Radha Kunj...

Legendary filmmaker Mrinal Sen's only son Kunal has lamented that the original scripts of the auteur's movies have been misplaced and those could have been used to document the creative thinki...

He said two feature films and a web series celebrating his father’s life are under production. “Kaushik Ganguly is making a feature film, Palan, where he is taking the characters of Khari...

Deepika will be letting India down unless she arrives with six suitcases. Other Indians who have served on the Cannes jury are: Mrinal Sen (1982), Arundhati Roy (2000), Aishwarya Rai (2003), Sharmil...

You are one of a select group of people who have acted in films made by Mrinal Sen as well as Satyajit Ray. What were the similarities and differences you found in how these two greats visualised thei...

The Cinema Centenary Building, close to Bangur hospital in Tollygunge, is abuzz with activity but the 27th Kolkata International Film Festival, for which it is a venue, is not the only reason. A proj...

In the late 1970s I used to work with Pam Crain, the jazz singer. I was doing the lighting… She never let anyone light her other than me. ‘He somehow manages to make me look younger,&rsqu...

There is no consolidation on the disproportionate amount of labour that Palan has to toe, in order to live. He dies in servitude. As a subject, he is still present in the form of the landlord’s ...