Showing posts with label bengali. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bengali. Show all posts
Wednesday, 4 June 2025

A peek into 1960s West Bengal...

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Arohan (Ascent, Hindi; 1983) Director: Shyam Benegal imdb.com/title/tt0083575/ This movie serves as an eye-opener on the political changes i...
Thursday, 30 September 2021

No one gives a damn really!

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Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Clapped Star, Bengali, 1960) Screenplay & Direction: Ritwik Ghatak I saw him brought in earlier in handcuffs...
Tuesday, 28 September 2021

Go with the flow?

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Subarnarekha (Bengali, 1965) Story and Direction: Ritwik Ghatak The world, they say, constantly evolves. Every civilisation has its norms an...
Friday, 11 September 2020

What is the definition of 'normal'?

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Paromitar Ek Din ( A day of Paromitar, Bengali; 2000) Direction: Aparna Sen Society has defined what is normal and what is not. It h...
Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Order in chaos!

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Durga Sohay (Bengali, 2017) One cannot take Durga worship out of Bengali culture. In this thriller and family drama, much like the exte...
Saturday, 10 May 2014

To be or not to be uncle!

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Agatuk (Stranger; Bengali, 1991) Director: Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray, like Hitchcock, must be one of those who never made a bad movie. Th...
Tuesday, 29 April 2014

The meaning of life?

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Shakha Prosakha (Branches of the Tree, Bengali; 1990) Story, Screenplay, Direction: Satyajit Ray This is one of Ray's swan song. I...
Monday, 24 March 2014

Sherlock strikes again!

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Joi Baba Felunath (The Elephant God, 1978; Bengal) Satyajit Ray's Sherlock Holmes of the East strikes again! This time around, he (Fel...
Thursday, 13 March 2014

Power with the People!

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Hirok Rajar Deshe (Kingdom of Diamonds, Bengali, 1980) Director: Satyajit Ray You will be wondering how a tale set in the medieval times...
Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Of freedom and emancipation...

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Ghare-Baire (Bengali,  Home and the World;  1984 ) Director: Satyajit Ray This is a Rabindranath Tagore's 1905 story set at a time wh...