The film has had a re-release this week across the country, thanks to the film’s original producer R.D. Bansal’s family, who have restored the 35mm print to a pristine 2k digitised version.

An insider’s regretful look at how a good institution in the making has declined so rapidly.

The canny West Bengal chief minister seems to have lost her touch at grasping the mood on the streets.

Cinematic fiction has become the convenient way of ‘correcting’ historical frictions, especially where facts are inconvenient

In the process of being the ‘other’ of Mamata, the Left has been blind to the BJP, which is in actuality its historical and bonafide ideological other.

Perhaps the humanist poet’s liberal ideas will rub off on the actor, who has made no secret of his right wing political ideology.

If the prime minister did not get a particular degree, he should say so, for he has repeatedly stated that he is a chaiwalla's son who made his way up to power through grit and hard work.

A detailed biography of the singer which is strong on anecdotes but falls short on context.

The 50th anniversary of her death is a good time to recall her prodigious talent which like a river, continues to flow on in our memories.

An excerpt from 'Uttam Kumar: A Life in Cinema' by Sayandeb Chowdhury.

AAP’s post-ideological vanity is far more damaging when it stands on the face of a gargantuan right-wing machinery at these times.

On Uttam Kumar's death anniversary on July 24, remembering the Bengali hero for the ages – the natural actor who won over generations with his charm and persistence.

The BJP has long had its eye on West Bengal, because without it, its idea of a Hindu Rashtra cannot fully be realised.

Bengali cinema has long lost its Madeleine and has also forgotten that it has lost it. With the new film Prakton, the forgetting is now complete.