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Rabi Ghosh, comedian whose roles were more than mere entertainment – Anniversary special

On Ghosh's 25th death anniversary, a look at the philosophy of the popular actor who has become...

04 Feb 2022 5:32 IST — Roushni Sarkar

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Feluda Pherot trailers: Series displays flavours of two distinct periods

The look of the cast strongly calls to mind Ray’s original sketches for his Feluda stories....

24 Nov 2020 11:05 IST — Roushni Sarkar

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45 years of Julie: The anxieties around premarital sex and minority communities persist even today

Unwittingly perhaps, the film also raises some uncomfortable questions about the portrayal of women...

18 Apr 2020 17:58 IST — Sukhpreet Kahlon

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Amol Palekar: Fear of failure has never kept me from trying something new

The multi-faceted artist looks back on his journey so far as he explains why he keeps choosing...

25 Dec 2019 10:39 IST — Keyur Seta

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Bhuvan Shome: When Mrinal Sen broke into Hindi cinema with a simple tale and a medley of techniques

Bhuvan Shome, which was released on 12 May half a century ago, was a path-breaking film in many ways...

13 May 2019 0:30 IST — Shoma A Chatterji

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10 special performances by Utpal Dutt: 90th birth anniversary special

Several top filmmakers used Utpal Dutt's craft and unforgettable screen presence in a variety of...

29 Mar 2019 5:30 IST — Roushni Sarkar,Shriram Iyengar

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Pinaki Mukherji's Chowringhee (1968) was a faithful and absorbing adaptation of Shankar's novel

Chowringhee was perhaps the biggest multi-starrer among Bengali films in the 1960s and was mostly at...

17 Jan 2019 22:39 IST — Shoma A Chatterji

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Bengal's biggest stars and their Saratchandra moments — Birth anniversary special

Last weekend saw the great writer's 142nd birth anniversary (he was born on 15 September the we...

18 Sep 2018 9:08 IST — Roushni Sarkar

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Utpal Dutt's innovation with Shakespeare – 25th death anniversary special

Dutt took Shakespeare beyond the elite city stage and introduced him, and other leading European to...

19 Aug 2018 5:30 IST — Shoma A Chatterji

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Utpal Dutt: The artiste who came to cinema for, not just from, theatre – Birth anniversary special

Bishnupriya Dutt, professor of theatre and performance studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics,...

31 Mar 2018 21:51 IST — Roushni Sarkar

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Utpal Dutt: The inscrutable modern man 

A renaissance man, Utpal Dutt went well beyond buffoonish characters like Amol Palekar's boss in...

29 Mar 2017 5:10 IST — Shriram Iyengar

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Watch Dr Rahi Masoom Raza’s hilarious Gol Maal dialogues

The famed poet and Hindi dialogue writer, who would have turned 89 today, was responsible for the...

01 Sep 2016 5:43 IST — Sonal Pandya

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When prison bars failed to stifle Utpal Dutt’s spirit

The late actor wrote some of his popular plays during his days in jail....

19 Aug 2016 3:00 IST — Mayur Lookhar

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The Emergency amnesia in Hindi cinema

One of the darkest periods of Indian democracy finds hardly any mention in its cinematic chronicles....

25 Jun 2016 4:30 IST — Shriram Iyengar

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Kissa Kursi Ka: The film that burnt Sanjay Gandhi

On 14th of July 1977, Sanjay Gandhi and former I & B minister, VC Shukla walked into the Tis of...

17 Feb 2016 8:27 IST — Shriram Iyengar