Known for her unique dark pop style and musical influences from icons like Billie Eilish and Dove Cameron, Holly Riva, the 21-year-old singer-songwriter from Hollywood, bewitched Kolkata with a special performance on 8 November at a city store.
Learn how Ayushmann Khurrana's Vicky Donor not only is evolving as a classic but brought with it several lessons too
ADA Rangamandira in Bengaluru witnessed an evening of Odissi performances by three groups.
Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 is all set to enchant the audience with its unique storyline comprising the star cast woven in the nostalgic song of Ami je Tomar by Shreya Ghosal. Overall, it’s a good, entertaining movie with a surprising climax at the end.
Chandrabindoo has been persistent in producing unique words under known tunes. They have consistently done social commentaries, focusing on contemporary love and changing mainstream politics. The band has played on words to depict the narratives of philosophy and history in songs like Tatin, Mongol Groho and Tobo Mukut. The relevance and the popularity of the band came from tapping into the conformist mentality of an essentially intellectual sub-culture of the Bengali community.
At the recent 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, an out-and-out movie about a vicious goon, Emilia Perez, was hopping and skipping to the beats of rhythm and rhyme.
Tapati Gupta's recent book, Analysing Bengali Drama: Time, Text & Performance (Dasgupta and Company), looks into some landmark aspects of Bengali theatre with regard to text and performances.
On a bright Sunday morning of 2 June, Kolkata vibed with the rhythms of western classical music under the auspices of the Southern School of Music (Garia) at the packed ICCR’s Satyajit Ray auditorium.
Arnold's latest, Bird, which competed at the recent Cannes Film Festival, swirls around a single father and his two children, who give him a real hard time.
In a candid conversation with The Statesman, Jasleen Royal shares her journey as an artist, her new release, Assi Sajna and what it’s like to be a woman singer-composer in Bollywood.
