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“In Ritwik Ghatak, there was a voice in cinema that wanted to address the political mayhem of the Bengal partition,” said actor-director Parambrata Chakraborty at a tribute for Bengali auteur Ritwik Ghatak at a centenary memorial talk hosted by the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) on Tuesday (November 11, 2025). With a seminar, an…
The 31st Kolkata International Film Festival organised a talk and a photographic exhibition of Guru Dutt, as part of a tribute to celebrate the hundredth birth anniversary of the iconic Indian filmmaker. Titled ‘Guru Dutt: The Melancholic Maverick’, the talk on Sunday (November 9, 2025) evening featured eminent film writers and personalities speaking on Guru…
Ramesh Sippy, director of the 1975 Bollywood classic Sholay, reminisced about the making of the film and said he ‘cannot make another Sholay as he delivered the Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture at the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival. “Sholay started as a two-line idea, probably a four-line idea… it’s a film that Salim-Javed put on…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Shatrughan Sinha during the 31st International Film Festival, in Kolkata on November 6, 2025 | Photo Credit: ANI The 31st Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) was inaugurated in the city on Thursday (November 6, 2025) by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. In the next week, 215 films from 39 countries are to be showcased across 21 theatres in the…
People visit a Durga Puja pandal themed on filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak’s iconic movies in Kolkata last month. | Photo Credit: PTI The 31st edition of the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) is set to highlight films by maestro Ritwik Ghatak, with screenings of six of his films during the festival between November 6 and November…
