Cinemascope

  Aranyer Din Ratri marked a pivotal shift for Satyajit Ray. While he’d already made a terrific transition to contemporary Calcutta setting...

  Padatik – the thrilling, fierce, sardonic and meditative final chapter in Mrinal Sen’s extraordinary ‘ Calcutta Trilogy ’, preceded by In...

 In Calcutta 71 , Mrinal Sen constructed a fierce and subversive examination of impoverishment, deprivation, exploitation and the seeds of r...

  Mrinal Sen made a fabulous entry into radical political cinema – blending plucky insouciance, subversive wit and searing angst – with Inte...

 While Ritwik Ghatak’s staunch political beliefs and leanings remained largely beneath the complex dramatic surfaces of his films – imbuing ...

 Payal Kapadia’s stunning hybrid docu essay A Night of Knowing Nothing – alternately hypnotic and urgent, intimate and shared, impressionis...

 ‘ Calcutta Trilogy ’, which represented a radical shift for Satyajit Ray – into terrains that were darker, themes that were furiously polit...

  Seemabaddha strikingly contrasted Pratidwandi and Jana Aranya , the two films which bracketed it in Satyajit Ray’s stunning ‘ Calcutta T...

 Satyajit Ray had touched upon political themes on multiple occasions – from capital, corruption, crooked godmen and religious dogmatism to ...

 While Mahanagar wasn’t Satyajit Ray’s first film set in Calcutta, it was the first where the metropolis formed an essential character, rig...

 Reality, dreams, memories, and fantasy coalesced quite freely in Lal Darja , with its mystifying title referring to the potential path to f...

 The understated palette, languorous pacing, and moody poetic realism in Dasgupta’s haunting and eloquent film Tahader Katha , were striking...

 Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s Charachar – adapted from a Prafulla Roy novel, and made in a phase when he was crafting one acclaimed arthouse film a...

 The sub-genre of paranoia/conspiracy thrillers – covering political corruption, institutional malfeasance, sordid machinations of large cor...

 Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s 3 films are a study in contrasts and commonalities. Where Asha Jaoar Majhe was a marvellously muted tone-poem and...

The Bengali music band Chandrabindu wonderfully complements humour with nostalgic evocations that may be referred to as ‘ Bangaliana ’ (th...

Ritwik Ghatak was forever haunted by the memories of the 1947 Partition; that, combined with his defiant Marxist lens, meant that the upro...