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Veteran German filmmaker Wim Wenders after the film screening at Nandan, Kolkata on February 16, with Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, founder of Film Heritage Foundation. | Photo Credit: Moyurie Som Hundreds of film enthusiasts thronged to Kolkata’s esteemed film theatre Nandan on Sunday evening to catch a film screening and interact with award-winning German filmmaker Wim…
Kolkata: A Class 8 student was raped and murdered in Kolkata after she had left home over being scolded by her mother. The cops found her body in the bushes in New Town on Friday morning. An e-rickshaw driver who was last spotted with the teenager has been arrested. “The girl is a student of…
A photograph from ‘Un/Framed Lives’ | Photo Credit: Varun Jinka/Special Arrangement The cover of photographer and aspiring cinematographer Varun Jinka’s coffee table book, Un/Framed Lives (Anvikshiki Publishers), features a stark black-and-white image framed by a vibrant turmeric yellow border. The cover photograph has its own story, and the turmeric yellow is Varun’s homage to Kolkata….
Dassani Studio in Kolkata where director Srijit Roy asked his colleagues to show up in solidarity for the ceasework at his soap opera sets. Photo DEBASISH BHADURI A fresh impasse has erupted in the Kolkata film industry amid a drastic 70% drop in film productions within a year. This is the second such cease work…
This is a tribute by a fanboy who would memorise and recite many poems of Pritish Nandy (Da) since the 1970s. Dada, travel well on your ‘Lonesong Street’. “When you’ve crossed the bustling mainstreets of everever landYou reach a lonesome sandstrip called the nevernever strandThen you take the turning leftAnd you take the turning rightAnd…
A view of the attendees from last year’s edition of The City as a Museum. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The City as a Museum — an art gallery’s annual event in Kolkata that transforms streets into living museums for revisiting historical narratives — will this year bring alive, among other things, memories of a…
Sindbad the Sailor by Abanindranath Tagore | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The New York Times Spelling Bee does not recognise Biennale as a valid word. It sticks with Biennial, as in the Whitney Biennial, though the Venice Biennale has made that word part of global art vocabulary. So we have the Gwangju Biennale, the Biennale…
