Posts Tagged ‘“bengali cinema”’

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    Tapan Sinha, Kabuliwala and the poetry of life
    “Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don’t want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.”-Hugh Jackman And rarely does a filmmaker achieve the feat of going in places so dark no one would want to go, looking down at the darkest of caves with a smile and realizing the real story...
    by Rusted rick at January 15th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
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    Nayak (1966)
    (4/5) Excellent. Uttam Kumar stands tall in the kind of effortessly charismatic performance that we don’t really see these days. IMDB
    by Jahan Bakshi at October 2nd, 2008 at 11:10 pm
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    LAST LEAR;random thoughts
    this is not a review, just random thoughts/ rants and a question] Absolutely nothing could spoil THE LAST LEAR for me. Not the failed alarm clock in the morning due to which I woke up just about 25 minutes before the show started, not the irritating cabbie who messed up the road delaying me further, neither my wallet which was left back home and surely, surely not the...
    by Rusted rick at September 13th, 2008 at 07:09 am
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    Anjan Dutt – the new ray of hope
    That urban Bengali cinema has been dead meat for the last couple of decades is as widespread a phenomenon as the very existence of Bengalis across the face of the earth. Rituparno Ghosh, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Aparna Sen, yes folks you are very good film-makers and we critics love your work but sadly the people haven’t turned up to watch your stuff. A couple of non...
    by Pratim D. Gupta at June 21st, 2008 at 11:06 pm
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