শয়নে-স্বপনে সিনেমা (Sleeping, Dreaming Cinema) Published @ Anandabazar Patrika Review of Chidananda Dasgupta, Collected Prose, Vol 1 (Ed. Samik Bandyopadhyay). Dey’s Publishing. By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Dec 31, 2022 | Read More
Singer, Actor, Composer and Eccentric Published @ Wire Review of A Bhattacharjee and P Dhar, Kishore Kumar: The Ultimate Biography (HarperCollins, 2022). The Many Lives of Kishore… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Dec 7, 2022 | Tags: Biography, Cinema, Kishore | Read More
খাওয়া না-খাওয়ার পালা (Optics of Plenty and Geography of Hunger) Published @ AnandaBazar Patrika প্রবল দারিদ্রের মধ্যে দাঁড়িয়েও মধ্যবিত্ত ভোগ প্রদর্শনে অকুণ্ঠ ‘ট্রায়াঙ্গল অফ স্যাডনেস’ ছবির দৃশ্য… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Oct 30, 2022 | Tags: Cinema, hunger, Photography | Read More
ইমেজের স্বরূপ (Godard and the Liberation of the Image) Published @ Desh Magazine শিল্প-বিপ্লব, ফটোগ্রাফি, ইমেজের নতুন ধারণা। এবং গোদার।… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Oct 17, 2022 | Tags: Auteur, Godard, Image, La Nouvelle Vague, Photography, Vertov | Read More
Playful, Poignant, Joyous and Melancholic Published @ TheWire.in Geeta in the shooting stills for Guru Dutt’s aborted Cinemascope film Gouri The her 50th death anniversary, it is a good time to recall Geeta Dutt’s prodigious talent which like a river, continues to flow on in our memories. By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Jul 20, 2022 | Tags: Cinema, Homage, Music | Read More
The Ends of Tragedy Published @ Critical Collective Screenshot, Critical Collective Journal Mapping the tragic form from its classical understanding to the present, the author remarks on how late capitalism has resulted in the idea of tragedy gradually becoming alien in mainstream Hindi cinema. … By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Jul 15, 2022 | Tags: cultural history, Popular Cinema, Tragedy | Read More
Bengali Cinema’s Genial Charmer Published @ Indian Express A You Tube still from Tarun Majumdar’s cult classic Sriman Prithwiraj Tarun Majumdar’s films tapped into the everyday yearnings of people in Bengal. But his craft slipped in the 1980s. By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Jul 7, 2022 | Tags: Calcutta, Cinema, Tribute | Read More
সুরক্ষিত বায়োপিক (An Antiseptic Homage) Published @ Daakbangla A Still from Aneek Dutta’s Aporajito (2022)… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Jun 11, 2022 | Tags: Film Review | Read More
Using Art for the Cause of Hate Published @ Deccan Herald An artwork based on the film’s poster The brazen display of animosity in Kashmir Files is part of a crafty political narrative that would further embolden polarization. By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Mar 19, 2022 | Tags: Cinema, Opinion | Read More
রোমান্টিক জুটি নামক খাঁচা থেকে মুক্তি (Bengali cinema’s iconic screen pair must be liberated) Published @ Anandabazaar Patrika Centenary Supplement By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Dec 29, 2021 | Tags: Bengali Cinema, Uttam Kumar | Read More