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‘The French are very curious about Indian cinema’
Serge Toubiana is currently the Director General of La Cinematheque Francaise, France government’s official body to look after the country’s film industry and its ties with other cinema industries abr… more →
Utpal Borpujari
Pratidwandi (The Adversary, India 1970)
wrote 2 days ago: Siddhartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee, second from right) receives his queuing slip as one of the many ca … more →
‘The French are very curious about Indian cinema’
wrote 3 days ago: Serge Toubiana is currently the Director General of La Cinematheque Francaise, France government’s o … more →
Days and Nights in the Forest (Aranyer Din Ratri, India 1969)
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wrote 4 days ago: The four young men from Calcutta (from the left: Hari, Ashim, Sanjoy and Shekhar) In any reappraisal … more →
Satyajit Ray: A re-appraisal, some interim thoughts
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wrote 5 days ago: I’ve been reading criticism and biography of Ray and his early career and re-watching some of … more →
Spreading Feluda fever
wrote 3 weeks ago: By Utpal Borpujari It is not easy to convert a iconic fictional character into another format, espec … more →
Satyajit Ray: Abhijan (The Expedition) (India 1962)
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wrote 1 month ago: Waheeda Rehman as Gulabi I don’t remember this getting a release in the UK and I only came acr … more →
Re-visiting Satyajit Ray
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wrote 1 month ago: One of the Ray photos on the excellent website of the Satyajit Ray Society (see below) – a must visi … more →
A traumatic suspense - part 1
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wrote 1 month ago: Her lips quivered like a jellyfish that had caught a cold, sometimes blocked by the subtitles transl … more →
A richly detailed sketch of life and cinema of Mrinal Sen
wrote 1 month ago: By Utpal Borpujari It has been seven years since Mrinal Sen made a film. His last film, Amaar Bhuvan … more →
Sathyu's film in Indian Panorama at 40th IFFI
wrote 2 months ago: By Utpal Borpujari “Ijjodu”, made after a 12 year hiatus by veteran M S Sathyu, will lead the charge … more →
Kaler Rakhal: of Politics and the Masks We Wear
wrote 2 months ago: By Utpal Borpujari Cinema sometimes has this uncanny ability to reflect the immediate realities of t … more →
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1968)
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wrote 4 months ago: There are some films that offer deep, mind-searing insights into human life. There are some that all … more →
Ahmedabad heralds its own international film fest
wrote 5 months ago: By Utpal Borpujari in Ahmedabad In a country full of film crazy people, film festivals are a major – … more →
All Good Literature is not Translatable: Sankar
wrote 5 months ago: By Utpal Borpujari He is a legend in Bengali literature, but only recently the outside world has got … more →
hopelessly off-key
wrote 6 months ago: “You don’t have to be a Bengali to resonate” – Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, Obse … more →
Revival of the masters
wrote 8 months ago: By Utpal Borpujari In India, cinema means big budgets, multiplexes, foreign locations, et al., espec … more →
Flashback #54
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wrote 8 months ago: Pather Panchali (1955) (aka Song Of The Little Road) Satyajit Ray Bengali “This is my home, too. But … more →
Bright Ray
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wrote 12 months ago: Satyajit Ray at 5 This was published in India Today in January 1979. The text of the article in Indi … more →
The magic of cinema, now showing at IFFI in Goa
wrote 1 year ago: Quite a few cinematic gems have lit up the 39th International Film Festival of India. Utpal Borpujar … more →
