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Thursday, April 9, 2026
TopicBengali film industry

Topic: Bengali film industry

Satyajit Ray’s 1960 Devi shows God-fearing rural Bengal—and devotion delusion

Sharmila Tagore delivers one of the most haunting performances of her career in Devi. She was only 14 years old.

The bandit is back in movies. After Telugu’s Daaku Maharaaj, it’s Bengali Raghu Dakat

The announcement of Raghu Dakat came during Golper Parbon 1432, an event celebrating SVF’s 30-year journey in Bengali-language entertainment held in Kolkata on 28 February.

Bengal’s shape-shifters are banking on Bohurupi. ‘Give us a stage, we’ll enthrall a city’

Kolkata: Nanichora Das Baul becomes someone new every day—Shiva or Parvati, Durga or the demon king, even a skeleton sometimes. As one of Bengal’s few remaining bohurupis—quick-change artists who...

‘Traumas have resurfaced’ in Bengali film industry after Kerala MeToo report & RG Kar case

Women actors wrote to the West Bengal Tele Academy, demanding a safer work environment. The state govt has also reportedly formed an 'unbiased committee' to probe allegations.

On Camera

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Theaterisation proposal to be shared with defence ministry in a week or so—CDS Gen Anil Chauhan

Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.