The Kolkata International Film Festival is the third oldest film festival in the country. It was started as an annual event way back in 1995 by the erstwhile Left Front government.
April 26, 2022Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy have taught themselves to cut out the melodrama and yet tug at the heartstrings of viewers through their latest offering, Konttho
May 18, 2019Natir Puja was the only film Rabindranath Tagore directed. Based on his poem, Pujarini, it marked quite a number of firsts from putting a marginalised woman in the centre of the narrative to the unconventional shooting technique
May 11, 2019Kaushik Ganguly's new drama Jyesthoputro makes for an engrossing watch from start to finish, and is surely one of the most accomplished films by the director
April 27, 2019Director Suman Ghosh's latest venture leaves one with ample food for thought
April 20, 2019From the recent Bengali film Sweater to the classic Kaagaz Ke Phool, the act of knitting has been used for plot development and also, to convey varied emotions in cinema
April 7, 2019The film portrays the art forms of Pieta and the Last Supper and creates scenarios in context of the paintings.
April 2, 2019Roy died of cardiac arrest at his Salt Lake residence at around 10:20 pm Sunday, they said.
March 18, 2019A censor board certified Bengali film, Bhobishyoter Bhoot (Ghosts of the Future), which was released on Friday, 15 February, has disappeared from cinema halls in West Bengal.
February 18, 2019Bimal Roy is one of the ten most favourite filmmakers so far as this writer is concerned. So, a multi-layered tribute to this great master of Indian cinema, an integral part of the 24th KIFF, is a celebration unto itself.
November 17, 2018Bhatt said the festival commits itself only to the idea of India "which says all make it together or none of us makes it together".
November 11, 2018Chatterjee's maiden Bollywood movie was released in 1958 when he was a junior artist.
September 13, 2018To commemorate the 92nd birth anniversary of Uttam Kumar, an exhibition in Kolkata showcased a rich layout of still photographs, sketch books maintained by art directors, original screenplays and much more.
September 8, 2018The 'offbeat' genre which Ray, Ghatak and Sen pioneered and nourished has not wilted or withered in the last quarter-century, for over 300 feature films have been made in that category since 1992
August 4, 2018Looking at the current scenario, there has been a rise in independent movies with minimal investment which are being released in diverse digital platforms. A dominant trend nowadays in Tollygunge is the making of detective, scary, adventure and treasure-hunt movies.
July 28, 2018Some rare photographs of Uttam Kumar and his wife Gouri Devi grabbed by a local photographer, Sanat Pramanik, can still be seen hanging on the faded walls of a house at Notu village in Raina in Burdwan (East).
July 24, 2018Actor Parambrata Chatterjee gets talking on Sonar Pahar, his venture as a filmmaker, and the inspirations that led him to add another feather to his cap
July 14, 2018