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Shoma A ChatterjiMathrubhumi English |
Rape in cinema has certain specific functions. One of these is to arouse the male in the audience sexually. Another is to use, to a certain extent,...
Adoor Gopalakrishnan has made relatively few films during his around five-decade span as filmmaker. In 2016, he made Pinneyum (Once Again) in...
Mahasweta Devi was born into a distinguished family settled in Bangladesh when it was a part of undivided India and the British were in power. She was...
Delhi Crime Season 3 is a powerful attack on the veiled and disguised techniques adopted in the business of girl trafficking, shedding light on...
I first met Shakti Samanta when I was in school. I saw him as a slim, tall, very self-effacing shy young man who would often frequent the Shivaji Park...
Prosenjit, the uncrowned emperor of Bengali cinema for more than three decades, has finally been recognised for his rich and long-standing...
What is a war film? Today, the ‘war film’ genre is complicated by definition, understanding and biases that back it. “A war film is a movie...
Do not let his plain looks and grounded persona in which sometimes, he lets himself become invisible among a crowd of filmmakers deceive you. Dr....
“Censorship, legal and extra-legal, is a serious inroad on freedom of expression. Censorship is highly subjective and essentially mindless. The main...
Yeh Kaisa Insaf (1980) A Hindi film Yeh Kaisa Insaf featuring Shabana Azmi and Vinod Mehra directed by Dasari Narayan Rao was released. It dealt with...
Introducing this talk on Ritwik Ghatak as a tribute to his centenary, Adoor Gopalakrishnan reminisced his introduction with his Film Institute teacher...
Sports basically, is a way of life that demands a certain attitude, high moral values, focus and strict discipline. A sport is a concept and an...
Shah Rukh Khan is stepping into 60 on November 2 (today). There is a series of screenings of his films in theatres across India in the shape of a...
Till some years back, if someone asked me, what criteria I apply to a film to say that it moved me deeply, I would say, “I must begin to like it...
Mohit Suri’s recent film Saiyaara has turned the tables for Bollywood mainstream cinema by turning out to become a major box office success. This,...
One of my deepest regrets as a journalist is that I did not accept his late wife Surama Ghatak’s proposal to translate her two/three Bengali memoirs...
The CBFC or the Censor Board of Film Certification, has asked for not less than eleven cuts in Neeraj Ghaywan’s feature film Homebound which has...
Photographers mostly choose to keep a low profile which is an extension of their always being behind the camera with one eye fixed to the camera lens....
Meet Amborish Roy Choudhury. Over the past few months, he has been a significant point of discussion and interviews and online seminars revolving...
Every human being lives with some dream or other. For some, the dreams vanish even before a hint of their being realized happens. But life goes on for...
Meet Tathagata Ghosh. He is a package full of miracles shaped and moulded as a surprise package of a short film maker with a unique approach that...