Satyajit Ray

One monsoon day in 1757, in the mango orchards of Plassey, a town that stands between Calcutta and Murshidabad, the British established their empire defeating Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula’s forces. And so, to this land stretching from the foothills…

Kunal Basu’s new short story collection is titled Filmi Stories. Beyond a literary excursion, it resembles, in packaging and pace, a movie anthology — eight tales spurred along by drama and plot. Indeed, much in Basu’s fiction has gestured…

Director Satyajit Ray | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Parambrata Chatterjee, the Bengali actor who made his Hindi debut with Kahaani a decade ago, will be seen in the role of Feluda, the iconic detective character created by Satyajit…

By PTI BORAL: Just on the outskirts of the old city limits of the megapolis of Kolkata stands the semi-urban hamlet of Boral, where a young art director with the advertisement agency D J Keymer shot his classic debut…

By PTI BORAL: Just on the outskirts of the old city limits of the megapolis of Kolkata stands the semi-urban hamlet of Boral, where a young art director with the advertisement agency D J Keymer shot his classic debut…

Just on the outskirts of the old city limits of the megapolis of Kolkata stands the semi-urban hamlet of Boral, where a young art director with the advertisement agency D.J. Keymer shot his classic debut film Pather Panchali (Song of the…

Come Sunday, Indian cinema is launching one of its biggest offensives ever at the Academy Awards. Naatu Naatu from S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR is up for Best Original Song; it won the Golden Globe, to frenzied jubilation everywhere, two months…

By Express News Service Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali has become the only Indian film to feature in 117-year-old Variety magazine’s first-ever ‘100 Greatest Movies Of All Time’ list. The list is important because it…

KOLKATA: Legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan on Thursday described the current brand of period films as "couched in fictionalised jingoism". It is an unusual statement coming from an actor who is known to refrain from…

By PTI KOLKATA: Living up to the legacy of legendary movie maker and author Satyajit Ray is a tough call for anyone. For his son, the 69-year-old film director, Sandip Ray, best known for the series of detective…