Anil Chatterjee

Mumtaz Sorcar is going great guns. Her role of Sumita Devi in Kamaleswar Mukherjee���s film on Ritwik Ghatak is inspired by none other than Supriya Devi.

Scientist Anil Chatterjee spent decades toiling at a lab at the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Dona Paula, to discover that the endangered creature—the horseshoe crab—holds cures for some of the most widespread and dreaded illnesses, including diabetes and leukemia.

One of Satyajit Ray’s finest works, ‘Kanchenjunga’ (1962) happens to be the first coloured Bengali film and is also regarded as the first Indian anthology film. People who are familiar with Ray's Apu Trilogy will find it hard to digest the fact that the same Ray is the director of this film.

April 20, 1963. The then President, Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, was presenting the 10th National Awards.

‘Kanchenjungha’ is set in the hilly areas and revolves around the 20th-century problems in a pristine location.

A vacation to Puri with father Tarun Bhaduri in the 1960s had landed Jaya Bachchan a role in Satyajit Ray’s ‘Mahanagar’. Sharmila Tagore and Robi Ghosh, who were then shooting there for Tapan Sinha’s ‘Nirjan Saikate’, had spotted her. Convinced she would be the right fit for playing the role of Anil Chatterjee’s sister, Bani, in ‘Mahanagar’, they told Ray about it.

An old black-and white still of a 14-year old Jaya Bhaduri holding a picture of the cover of Filmfare magazine featuring Sharmila Tagore has gone viral.

We all have seen Kamal Haasan playing a wide range of characters in a number of Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi movies over the years and he has been an institution for generations of actors.

The lyrics by Piya and Prantik Chakraborty try to paint the picture of doomsday, as the constant struggle between hope and despair prevails.

In this new series of #DirectorsCut, ETimes talks about these relatively lesser-known and yet brilliant films by iconic directors that were overshadowed by their more popular filmworks. This week, we take a look at Tapan Sinha’s 1976 film ‘Harmonium’, a simple yet subtle take on fate.

While most youngsters in his age group loved football, Soumitra Chatterjee demonstrated a penchant for hockey as a student of City College. A student of the Bengali department, Pulu (Chatterjee’s pet name) was more interested in hockey and other games, but wasn’t quite keen on football.

Tnusree plays Akira, a gun-trotting woman who travels through the rural belts of Bengal on a vehicle avoiding towns and cities in a post-apocalyptic world as zombies have captured most of the urban areas.

Written and directed by Abhirup Ghosh, ‘Zombiesthaan’ is Bengal’s first zombie movie and a post-apocalyptic adventure.

Bumba Da aka Prosenjit Chatterjee and Aryann Bhowmik starrer film ‘Yeti Obhijaan’, is all set to air today (April 22) during the lockdown. The film is a sequel to ‘Mishawr Rawhoshyo’.

Abhirup Ghosh’s next ‘Zombiesthaan’ is making headlines ever since the film was announced. The makers have now announced the release date and it's December 13.

The film is set in the year 2030 when a mysterious biochemical weapon ends up affecting a vast majority of the world population.

Written and directed by Abhirup Ghosh, ‘Zombiesthaan’ is Bengal’s first zombie movie and a post-apocalyptic adventure.

In this new series of #DirectorsCut, ETimes talks about these relatively lesser-known and yet brilliant films by iconic directors that were overshadowed by their more popular filmworks. This week, we will discuss Tapan Sinha’s solo travel film ‘Nirjan Saikate’ (1965).

It was a unique Times Evening Food and Folk Festival 2009 at Lake Palli of Santoshpur in south Kolkata

Actress Sohini Sarkar and Rishav Basu have teamed up for the project. Sohini will be seen as Rajlakshmi while Rishav will essay Srikanta in this OTT project. It is directed by Sani Ghose Ray. It will have an ensemble cast featuring some of the most popular faces of Tollywood.

NEW DELHI: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Wednesday arrested four persons — one of them a doctor — for trading in illegal drugs and psychotropic substances Online and exporting them.

Abhirup Ghosh’s next ‘Zombiesthaan’ is making headlines ever since the film was announced. As the title suggests, it’s the first zombie film in Bengali which stars Tnusree Chakraborty, Rajatava Dutta, Rudranil Ghosh in the lead. The official trailer of this adventure flick is already out and it surely makes us curious especially after we get to know the backdrop of the story from a voice over by Tnusree.

Alarmed at its extinction, India wants to include the animal in Schedule IV of the Wildlife Act.

Utpalendu Chakraborty, a National Award-winning director known for films like 'Chokh' and 'Debshishu', passed away at 76 in Kolkata. His work in new wave cinema during the 1980s was widely recognized. Mamata Banerjee expressed her condolences, acknowledging the impact of his passing on the film industry.