Do you think that the decision to organise the Kolkata International Film Festival, albeit on a smaller scale, is a step towards normalisation at a time when the world is anything but normal? Absolut...

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A childhood “nostalgia and the deja vu feeling” of being around this man called Pradosh Chandra Mitter is here. Team Feluda Pherot — director Srijit Mukherji, Tota Roy Choudhury (Fel...

Dhritiman Chatterjee was the actor Ray found very easy to work with. When Chatterjee shot for Pratidwandi, his shots were approved at one go with no retakes, said Sandip. Ray had spent an hour with C...

The last time India went Down Under, there was no Steve Smith or David Warner. Do you think that with their return to the fold and with neither Virat Kohli (due to paternity leave) nor Rohit Sharma (d...

Why Kanchenjungha? Did the inspiration come from the turmoil of a particular family with Darjeeling as the backdrop or the magic of Satyajit Ray that was woven, presenting the cluster of peaks that re...

What follows is a long-winded socio-cultural explication of “Nehruvian science” — the framework gradually expands to include Syed Ahmed Khan, Bankim Chatterjee, Rajendralal Mitra, Ma...

Father Gaston Roberge, a French-Canadian Jesuit priest, had been asking himself since the 1980s why India did not have a new theory of popular films.  It was only in 2010 he got an answer a...

The starting point of the camel safari at Sam outside Jaisalmer could easily have been the space immediately outside the gates of any primary school in Calcutta at the end of the last school day befor...

Actor Shabana Azmi condoled the death of Soumitra Chatterjee.  “Farewell Soumitra Da. I had the honour of playing your wife in La Nuit Bengali n your daughter in 15 Park Avenue. I was with...