New narratives, clever marketing, and government push promise a superhit 2025 and a fitting reply to Anurag Kashyap, who called Bengali cinema 'ghatiya'.
For the Bengali audience, seeing Dev Adhikari and Subhashree Ganguly together on stage was as heartening as spotting Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor Khan at IIFA 2025.
Before ‘Bohurupi’, Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy’s 2023 film ‘Raktabeej’ had impressed audiences by capturing the beauty of the Bengali countryside.
Binodini Dasi rebelled her way from ‘fallen woman’ to feminist icon of Bengali theatre. Now, Ram Kamal Mukherjee is celebrating her story in a bold, ‘Bollywood-style’ Bangla film.
West Bengal and Bangladesh desperately need a new fictional sleuth, and Aranya Chatterjee from ‘Aranyer Prachin Probad’ perfectly fits the bill. He’s a med student who loves cricket and reading.
Bengali filmmakers don't seem to have much to offer other than nostalgia-peddling. And Allu Arjun, whose Pushpa had done phenomenal business in Bengal in 2021, may set the box office on fire yet again.
Srijit Mukherji studied 87 films of Uttam Kumar to pick shots and dialogues for his upcoming movie Oti Uttam. It took him two years to get the legal rights for them.
When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.
ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.
China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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