Posts Tagged ‘Tapan Sinha’

  • 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
  • Tapan Sinha : Ek Director Ki Maut
    Dada Saheb Phalke recipient, director Tapan Sinha died today. He made some wonderful films in his long career. It may happen that few people who claim to be having passion for cinema or mad about cinema did not know about him and his films on their own and once in a while whenever his name was printed in newspapers or spoken by electronic media because an award was bestowed...
    by Rk at January 15th, 2009 at 04:01 am
  • Dada Saheb Phalke Award for Tapan Sinha
    Tapan Sinha, the man who has given some beautifully-crafted films like Kabuliwalla, Khudito Pashan, Sagina Mahato and Ek Doctor Ki Maut, is the Dada Saheb Phalke Award winner for the year 2006. A committee comprising Shyam Benegal , Gautam Ghosh, A Nageshwar Rao, Sharmila Tagore and Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia recommended Sinha’s name for the top cinematic honour...
    by Runumi G at July 21st, 2008 at 09:07 am