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.
Bengali films are taking on hot-button issues as Lok Sabha elections approach, from hits like Raktabeej and Pradhan, both starring Trinamool Congress leaders, to the upcoming Bonbibi.
Kashyap’s comment that Bengali cinema has become ‘ghatiya’ has triggered rage and self-loathing. But the real problem is that Tollywood has been reduced to a cottage industry.
For the last 11 years, Nehru has been constantly blocking my efforts and causing the fiascos that are my many yojanas and abhiyans. He is the reason most of my initiatives turn into disasters.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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