Sudipto Chattopadhyay | PassionforCinema

Sudipto Chattopadhyay’s diploma film The Monsoon Melody, was screened at several International film festivals and won major international awards. He has written and directed fiction films, television films,documentaries, and advertising films, television soaps and has produced more than 1500 hours of television programming and launched the first News Channel in Bengali. In the avatar as a chat show host, he acquired notoriety as “a ruthless, aggressive, iconoclast”. He has written two novels, two books of verse, four plays and feature film screenplays in Bengali, English and Hindi including the critically acclaimed Dus Kahaniyan. He is presently the Creative Head of White Feather Films. He is part of the team that wrote Alibaug and Sanjay Gupta's next.Pankh is his first Hindi feature.

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Love and Lovelessness
Lives become dysfunctional when love evaporates. Cinema portrays this evanescence in the finest possible manner among all other art forms. It has the intrinsic advantage of combining image with sound and then accentuating that with music to create the desired emotional response. The sheer agony of living a loveless life is painted best in movies. It makes you feel the...
by Sudipto Chattopadhyay at August 27th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
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Mythology and Cinema
To me cinema is the conglomeration of myths; a conjugation of visual and aural traditions. The sights and sounds of my collective subconscious leads to the creation of the tapestry of images and sounds. The finality is nothing but an assimilation of multiple truths that define my existence as a human being. My personal and racial history gets reflected in my works. Nothing...
by Sudipto Chattopadhyay at August 22nd, 2009 at 07:08 am
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KAMINEY:The Year of Being Bad
“To, Ezra Pound, the Better Craftsman” — T.S. Eliot in his dedication in his book of verse The Wasteland. Anurag Kashyap did it in February earlier this year with Dev.D and now this August, Hindi cinema gets meaner with Kaminey. This is not a review of the film. Enough has been written about Kaminey in the past week. India is now sharply divided between those...
by Sudipto Chattopadhyay at August 19th, 2009 at 05:08 pm
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Memories Of Our Ancestors
Life offers you a plethora of choices; the onus is on you to choose what you choose. I chose the portrayal of the human predicament as my aesthetic canvas to paint on. I guess it stems from that specific tradition of art that you identify with and wish to highlight. Robert Browning’s statement, “My only interest is in the development of the soul, little else is...
by Sudipto Chattopadhyay at August 16th, 2009 at 11:08 am
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The Quest for Flight
Since recorded history, mankind’s greatest quest has been for flight. Human beings were always fascinated by birds wanting to approximate and emulate them. They failed for centuries but never gave up. I think this is almost a metaphor for the mass human psyche—- forever wanting to soar above circumstance. Poets have likened their spirits to birds; painters have...
by Sudipto Chattopadhyay at August 13th, 2009 at 08:08 pm
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Tradition and The Individual Talent
To understand how Pankh emerged, it is essential to know where I come from. On the sets of 'Pankh' A Bong brat with a Post Graduate degree in English Literature and Diploma in Cinema from FTII, Pune. Career started at Kolkata and moved all over India—– a very successful stint in advertising, TV(both Hindi and Bengali), as writer producer, director of fiction...
by Sudipto Chattopadhyay at August 10th, 2009 at 07:08 pm
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The burden of dreams
Beyond the tangy delight of saying “action” and the sweeping power of uttering “cut”, I am caught in a dilemma about what role do I play between those two operative words. In the interregnum I am frozen into just gazing upon a shot shaping up to a life that just might affect a few lives, warrant a gentle smile or prompt a tear to drop. So where does the auteur...
by Sudipto Chattopadhyay at August 9th, 2009 at 04:08 am