Ujjal Chakraborty

Ujjal Chakraborty's 'Ananda Math' not just has Divya Dutta playing a freedom fighter but is also likely to star Tollywood's first family - Prosenjit and Arpita

The artworks of Satyajit Ray and Rabindranath Tagore are on display in Sweden as part of a month-long exhibition at the prestigious Millesgarden museum in Stockholm.

The singer has been roped in to play an important role in Debi Chowdhurani

In 1958, Pather Panchali got a rousing reception in New York as the film ran for about eight months at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse. Decades later, history will be repeated as The Apu Trilogy will soon have a commercial release in The Big Apple.

Tollywood's first couple ' Prosenjit Chatterjee and Arpita ' might star in Suman Ghosh's next

Debajyoti Mishra shares his life stories at a lecture

Years after ‘Sonar Kella’ – the first Feluda adventure filmed by Satyajit Ray — was released, Soumitra Chatterjee recalled a conversation between him and the master film-maker which gave him a peek into the director’s mind. In the course of that interaction, which had taken place on a train during a journey to shoot outdoor, Chatterjee had realized that Ray had created ‘Feluda’ with some of his own traits — no-nonsense, suave and intuitive with a razor-sharp mind. It was therefore, a huge responsibility to portray Feluda on screen, Chatterjee had said, since it was akin to playing Ray himself.

From Akira Kurosawa to Satyajit Ray and Charlie Chaplin to Jean Luc Godard, the techniques of master filmmakers is now in words and in one volume at that.

Notebooks containing rough jottings by Satyajit Ray — the maestro called these his Kheror-Khata — will soon be a part of the National Digital Library (NDL) being developed by IIT-Kharagpur.

Eighteen of Satyajit Ray's films will soon be restored to improve their longevity

KOLKATA: A century-old treadle machine, the first edition of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gora, wooden blocks painstakingly preserved for several generations. These are some of the objects that form part of an exhibition on the fascinating history of printing and illustration in Kolkata.

The website www.worldofray.com is being set up by the Satyajit Ray Society in collaboration with the Ray Film and Study Centre' at Santacruz, USA.

The city itself will be theme for this year's Kolkata International Film Festival that gets underway on November 10. Under the title Calcutta/Kolkata, the theme will try to catch the city's transformation over the decades and its portrayal on screen.

The family of National Award-winning film scholar Ujjal Chakraborty has fallen victim to a social media scam that robbed them of Rs 1 lakh. A complaint has been filed with the cyber crime cell and officers said they are following up on all the leads provided by Chakraborty.

Bollywood legend Ashok Kumar has been chosen for a homage under the centenary tribute section — so far reserved for renowned non-mainstream directors.

The actress is gearing up to play Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay���s Debi Chowdhurani, her dream role

It was to be the high point of the first day at the 14th Kolkata Film Festival. The much-awaited public screening of Satyajit Ray’s short film Two at Nandan III on Tuesday afternoon had a soundtrack failure.

It is probably the longest and the most exhaustive documentation of Kolkata’s idol-making colony. From intricate details of image creation to the lives of those who toil hard to give them shape, it narrates the entire fascinating story of Kumartuli.

If you're a Satyajit Ray buff, you've already watched 'Charulata' a dozen times and can probably even mouth Lalmohanbabu's dialogues in 'Joy Baba Felunath' in your sleep.

Along with a handful of original 35 mm prints of his films, just five of Tapan Sinha's screenplays still survive. They are stored at Jadavpur University's School of Cultural Texts and Records.

A bunch of teenagers was locked in a war of words and principles with a group of 50-year-olds at a housing complex in Karaya. It wasn't as much a generation divide as a green divide. In the end, the kids won.

Long before Tapan Sinha got Uttam Kumar and Soumitra Chattopadhyay together for Jhinder Bandi, Satyajit Ray was toying with the idea of making a film on the Saradindu Bandyopadhyay novel (the Bengali version of The Prisoner of Zenda).

The fact that film-maker Mrinal Sen had to opt out of this year's Cannes Film Festival, where he had been specially invited for a mini retrospective, has moved none other than Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The restored print of Uday Shankar’s 1948 masterpiece ‘Kalpana’, the spectacular ode to experimental choreography that is believed to have convinced Satyajit Ray to film the eight-minute ghost dance sequence in ‘Goopy Gyne, Bagha Byne’, is gathering dust at the godown of a courier company in Mumbai’s Jogeshwari.

: Sixty years after it hit the screen in the US and created ripples across the film world, ‘Pather Panchali’ will return to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York next week – the venue where it had its maiden show abroad in 1955, months before its India release.

His depiction of the urban landscape, penchant for simple narratives and search for innocence in the complexities of modern existence were inspired by neo-realist European cinema of the early 20th century.

Pin it on the lower excise duty or plunging inhibitions but liquor sales in Kolkata have reached a new high this season.

It has been shut down twice, its office relocated on seven occasions, the mantle of editorial board changed 11 hands, and its popularity has waned many notches.