A typographer working out of Serampore, Panchanan Karmakar gave the Bengalis their first printed script.
One of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival is the poster, and it is revealed around three weeks before the 12-day event kicks in on the picturesque French Riviera.
Is Mithya the best film of 2025? Hard to say. It defies any concrete evaluation, as it floats in a world where emotions are alchemised into amorphous spirits.
Filmmaker Jaydip Mukherjee, who has many archival works to his credit, has now embarked on a journey to piece together showman Raj Kapoor’s Calcutta (now Kolkata) connect in Painted Memories: Calcutta Connects Raj Kapoor.
A sequel to Hemlock Society (that I have not seen), which was Chatterjee's movie all the way, Kill Bill Society is headlined by Poorna (Koushani Mukherjee), who appears to be firmly in the saddle.
A priest of the Jesuit order, Fr. Saju George, a Jesuit priest, and his institution, Kalahridaya, paid their tribute to Prof. CV Chandrasekhar recently at Gyan Manch.
Tabla wizard ustad Zakir Hussain (9 March 1951–15 December 2024) left for his eternal journey at a time when he was supposed to be in Kolkata as a much awaited participant in the Swara Samrat Music Festival. The world of art lovers, film lovers, even tea lovers, is shell shocked by this sudden bolt from the blue.
In her latest outing, Superboys of Malegaon, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was last screened at Red Sea (where I watched it), Reema Kagti carts us to a small city in Maharashtra and throws us in the midst of a group of boisterous boys.
As the grand curtain call to Srijit Mukherji’s foray into the Feluda universe, Bhuswargo Bhoyonkawr stands not merely as an apposite swansong but as the crowning jewel of his adaptations.
The 16th Rasheswar Saikia Barbayan Sattriya Dance Award and the 56th Annual Festival of Dance were held recently in Guwahati by Sangeet Sattra in honour of its founder principal, Adhyapak Rasheswar Saikia himself, and were a rich fare.
