Bedabrata Pain

Shonali Bose and hubby Bedabrata Pain are coming to Kolkata on December 20 to do a tech recce for their film, Chittagong: Strike One. Accompanying them on this visit would be Oscar-winning sound man Resul Pookutty.

Three decades later, another promising director, Chittagong-maker Bedabrata Pain, is set to remake the classic in today’s context.

Bedabrata Pain on how he fought self-doubt and overcame anxiety of directing his first film

He switched careers to enter the world of cinema, former NASA scientist Bedabrata Pain on his film and why he took the big leap.

Bedabrata Pain's 'Chittagong' has wowed the audience and critics alike. Happy with the response, the director has already started working on three new scripts

"My father asked me to get a character certificate from NASA, should I need it later, " says Dr Bedabrata Pain who has 89 patents to his credits and won the National Award as the debutant director for Chittagong

Bachchans and Shah Rukh Khan will attend a special screening of Chittagong in memory of the director Bedabrata Pain’s deceased son.

Bedabrata Pain, the IIT-Kgp old boy who was part of the team that invented the active pixel sensor that is now ubiquitous in digital cameras, has one foot in the arts and another in the cutting edge of science

Former NASA scientist Bedabrata Pain tells us why he put in all his royalty money to make the film on 1930 Bengal uprising

Bedabrata Pain is looking forward to working with a mixed bag of actors from both Tollywood & Bollywood

Filmmaker Bedabrata Pain loses case in LA court for son’s death; speaks of the shocking line of questioning in the LA court

With 89 patents to his name, Bedabrata Pain spearheaded the team, which invented the image sensor technology.

Bedabrata Pain’s Chittagong, based on the Chittagong Uprising, is releasing on October 12 after being delayed for two-and-a-half years.

Dr Bedabrata Pain, the director of Chittagong, rushes back to LA to attend the trial of his son’s untimely death.

Bedabrata Pain to remake the Shekhar Kapur classic; Nawazuddin might essay Naseeruddin���s role in the original

US filmmaker and former NASA scientist Bedabrata Pain, who documented how the corporate houses ruined American agriculture, will make a documentary on the Indian farmers’ agitation now.

Shonali Bose's next 'The Sky is Pink' may have Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar in the lead, but the director believes it is still tough to make small film in a star-dominated industry.

Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan might work in a film together again.

The actress has been receiving rave reviews for role in Chittagong

On 3rd September 2010, NASA scientist turned fimmaker Bedabrata Pain lost his 16-year-old son Ishan to a freak accident, involving a electric razor. Three years later, the director is yet to come out of the shock and grief.

The first public screening of Hindi film 'Chittagong' in Bangladesh has been cancelled by the organisers of the Hay Festival, film's director Bedabrata Pain said today.

A literary event focusing on the lives of some legendary world filmmakers unfolded at a city art studio recently.

He had been a senior research scientist at NASA for 18 years.But when it came to switching careers, this Bengali director chose to make a film on the Chittagong uprising.

For a two-day Bengali film festival in Los Angeles, director Sandip Ray carried with him artefacts and sketches of Satyajit Ray’s works from ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’ and ‘Sonar Kella’. The other important attraction was a display of photos that Ray took during his career both in India and abroad.

Filmmakers at the Kolkata International Film Festival debated AI's role in cinema, viewing it as a potential collaborator and enabler for efficiency and creativity. While acknowledging its power in areas like VFX and design, speakers cautioned against job displacement and the erosion of truth, emphasizing the irreplaceable human element in storytelling and emotional nuance.

The two actors definitely were the king of the jungle... err... evening.