Biswa Prasun Chatterji

 

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    Reel life and real life-Preity Zinta & P.C.Barua
    There are 2 persons I remember in Indian film industry whose real lives were modulated by their reel lives. One is Preity Zinta and another is Pramathesh Chandra Barua. Recently media was abuzz with breakup of Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia. Apparently if gossip columns are to be believed, Ness wanted to marry Preity and turn her into a domesticated housewife or trophy...
    by Biswa Prasun Chatterji at August 31st, 2009 at 10:08 am
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    More anecdotes on Ray
    I feel encouraged by reader’s comments to recollect and write more anecdotes on Satyajit Ray. I still remember Satyajit Ray’s Oscar acceptance speech of 1992 Academy Awards. My generation will; forever!!! I was studying in Class XI . Satyajit Ray was very ill then. He was admitted to Belle Vue Clinic in Calcutta. The Academy members came to Calcutta to give away...
    by Biswa Prasun Chatterji at August 6th, 2009 at 11:08 am
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    Two anecdotes on Ray
    These are two anecdotes on Satyajit Ray. Professor Subodh Chandra Sengupta was a famous professor of English literature of Calcutta’s hallowed institution , the Presidency College. From his autobiography “Te hi no dibasa gota” in Bangla I got this gem. One evening, in the early 1950’s Professor Sengupta was taking a walk in Maidan, Calcutta’s lungs. He met his...
    by Biswa Prasun Chatterji at August 5th, 2009 at 08:08 am
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    Smile Pinki (2009) and Dr. Murari Mukherji, a pioneer of cleft lip and palate surgery in India
    This year (2009) Smile Pinki ( by Megan Mylan) got an Oscar for best short documentary. Recent news shows it is released in the US movie halls and doing good ( ref: US theatres can’t get enough of Pinki’s smile, Yahoo India News,13 July,2009). The film is about plastic surgery of cleft lip of a girl child and how this surgery brought her dignity and acceptance...
    by Biswa Prasun Chatterji at July 15th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
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