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TopicSrijit Mukherji

Topic: Srijit Mukherji

‘Remarkable timing’—Srijit Mukherji on his Mrinal Sen biopic Padatik and Dhaka uprising

Srijit Mukherji’s ‘Padatik’ is set to release on 15 August. Amid Bangladesh turmoil, the personal, political, and cinematic are colliding for the filmmaker.

Uttam Kumar is every Bengali woman’s romantic crush. Can AI bring him back to life?

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.

‘My Bengali men aren’t softies’—Srijit Mukherji breaking Bollywood bias with his manly cops

Mukherji is amazed by the stereotypical perception of Bengali men in India and Bollywood – cultured but cowardly, easily scared babus.

Pankaj Tripathi-Neeraj Kabi’s cracking chemistry nearly salvages Sherdil’s shoddy screenplay

Set around the Philibit Tiger Reserve, Srijit Mukherjee’s ‘Sherdil’ has a stellar cast but plays it too safe.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

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.