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Friday, January 23, 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

We are wrong to cancel AR Rahman who contributed so much to Bollywood patriotism

For over three decades, AR Rahman has been a cultural ambassador of Indian pluralism. And yet, in today’s climate, that legacy seems disturbingly fragile.

RBI to focus on pace of Rupee’s drop, strategists say

The RBI has spent $45 billion since October to defend the currency, according to estimates by Kotak Mahindra Bank.

Rafale saga: 25 yrs of detours, deadlocks & political hesitation. Now IAF getting what it always wanted

Instead of buying more Mirages outright in early 2000s, the requirement was tweaked in favour of a medium-weight, multi-role fighter with Mirage-like performance. 

Pakistan se azaadi. Grow up India, stop giving it prime real estate in your psyche

Pakistan not only has zero chance of catching up with India in most areas, but will inevitably see the gap rising. Its leaders will offer its people the same snake oil in different bottles.