Abhi Bhattacharya

The culture department will offer residents of city an opportunity to watch some unique Indian films at Tribal museum from December 10.

Rituparno Ghosh casts Raima and Riya together for first time in film adaptation of Tagore novel.

With mouth-watering food, adda, games and music this monsoon evening couldn't have got better for the residents of Nilkamal Abason in Kestopur.

Few know that Bappi Lahiri’s superhit song ‘Jile le jile le aayo aayo jile le’ from ‘Tarzan' was composed during a vacation to his maternal aunt’s house in Siliguri.

In the late '60s and early '70s, when the Naxalite movement was at its peak, Bengal's matinee idol, Uttam Kumar, fled to Mumbai following a threat to his life. During the time, he'd often sigh over the debacle of his debut Hindi film, Chhoti Si Mulaqat.

Kaka Hathrasi, a man of many talents -- poet, painter, publisher and Indian classical music lover. His rib-tickling poetry had admirers ranging from Kapoors of Bombay cinema, to dacoits in Chambal

Gulzar is particularly excited about this honorary DLitt because it has come on a special day