Bengali Movies

In the centenary of his birth, Ritwik Ghatak continues to provoke us with the disquieting narratives in his small oeuvre of films

Veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal, the pioneer of the parallel cinema movement in Indian cinema in the 1970s and 1980s, was cremated on Tuesday with full state honours and a three-gun salute here. Benegal, known for films such as "Ankur", "Mandi", "Nishant", and "Junoon", died on Monday at a hospital here due to chronic kidney disease. The last rites of the filmmaker, who celebrated his 90th birthday on December 14, were held around 3 pm at Dadar's Shivaji Park crematorium. Benegal's cinema contemporaries, colleagues and younger generations of actors and artists accompanied wife Nira and daughter Pia in paying their last respects to the icon, whose movies captured the many realities of India. Naseeruddin Shah, Rajit Kapoor, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, and Ila Arun, who starred in many of Benegal's films, were present to bid adieu to the director. Also present were actor Ratna Pathak Shah, her son Vivaan Shah, writer-poet Gulzar, director Hansal Mehta, lyricisit-writer Javed Akhtar, actor

Now that there will be fewer trams on the city's streets, it will not only be an ecological loss but also an aesthetic and political one

The teaser of Maa Kaali has been released in different languages. The movie is based on the events that took place in British India's Bengal in 1946

The way each ghost dies in the film Bhooter Bhabishyat represents a sort historical, albeit ironic, continuity of various ways in which Bengalis have met their end over the centuries