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.
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মামুলি হয়ে ওঠে মহাকাব্যিক (On Joyce’s Ulysses)
Published @ Anandabazaar Patrika
Ulysses, definitive edition, 1961…
সুরক্ষিত বায়োপিক (An Antiseptic Homage)
Published @ Daakbangla
A Still from Aneek Dutta’s Aporajito (2022)…
দেশটা তা হলে জড়ভারত? (Is India now Stillborn)
Published @ Anandabazar Patrika
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TMC is Much Like the Left’
Published @ Indian Express
T-shirts with images of Mamata Banerjee, Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi and logo of CPI (M). Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri The party has virtually no opposition in West Bengal. This has led to an entrenchment of violent elements.
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.
Stuck in Stereotype and Slapstick
Published @ Indian Express
Narayan Debnath’s comic world was rich, but full of stilted, repetitive adolescent pranks and clichés.
রোমান্টিক জুটি নামক খাঁচা থেকে মুক্তি (Bengali cinema’s iconic screen pair must be liberated)
Published @ Anandabazaar Patrika Centenary Supplement
A Legendary Legacy
Published @ Biblio- A Review of Books
The Splendid Indeterminacy of Shoojit Sircar’s mellow dramas
Published @ Critical Collective
A still from Shoojit Sircar’s Sardar Udham A look at how the director confronts and confounds genre expectations while working within the confines of mainstream Hindi cinema.