Breaking News
- Movies
The Sound of Dubbing
0 - Business and Politics
Signs of the times: Nothing’s right
0 - TV
How to go bonkers
0 - Trending
So why don’t people wear masks?
0 - Health
Fighting Malnutrition in Chhattisgarh
0 - Thought Factory
An auteur in the true sense: Werner Herzog
0 - Alternative Entertainment
Avijatrik: The Wanderlust of Apu
0 - Movies
The Woman in White
0 - Health
Explaining the lockdown to children
0 - Business and Politics
Signs of the times: She’s a street fighter
0
Author
Author details
Rinki Roy Bhattacharya
Rinki was born with cinema in her veins. Her journalistic journey began when she was in her twenties. She filed features on cinema, investigative reports about new wave directors, interviews with eminent film makers & artists; Satyajit Ray, Costa Gavras, Carlo Ponti, Toshiro Mifune, Victor Bannerjee. She designed sets & costumes, subtitled films by Ray, Mrinal &, Aparna Sen, Rituporno Ghosh. Her non-fiction works include a man of silence, behind closed doors, Janani, the man who spoke in pictures, Madhumati. In 1985 Rinki founded the help Ngo to support women in distress and made her documentary: Char Diwari on domestic violence. She is also the founder chairperson of the Bimal Roy film society.
Related Articles
-280X201.jpg)
No Man is an island
Rinki Roy Bhattacharya writes that the relentless media coverage about the pandemic we are all stuck in was guaranteed to...
Read More
The Other Dilip Kumar
As the car heaves uphill from the Khar end, I notice a high blue scaffolding covering that familiar old place. A sign board is clearly visible outside. Despite the sm...
Read More-280X201.jpg)
A Fond Farewell to a Cherished friend - his death is a profound Personal Loss
"I was a little more than a boy when I first met Bimalda. It was at a premiere, that we first met. He was a soft-spoken gentleman and I still remember his interesting eyes....
Read More
THE JITENDRA ARYA RETROSPECTIVE
“Photography begins with the marriage of two minds – the dreamers and the technicians.” Arya on photographing Nehru.
I have not the...
Read More
21 years of Commemorating Roy
The Bimal Roy Memorial Committee and Film Society, founded in honour of Bimal Roy, the 'Silent Master' of the Golden Age of Indian Cinema turns 21 years old this year.
... Read More
Sulabha Arya - She does not stoop to Conquer!!!
One summer noon we were heading in a Bus towards London’s Buckingham Palace with my UK based daughter, son in law and his mother Sulabha. The latter happens...
Read More
On The Eve Of Another Silent Anniversary
Overwhelmed by grief when my father passed away in January 1966
I did not know how to combat that empty feeling. I was just 23 years old and I had had so much to talk,...
FREEDOM My Story By Arunaraje Patil
Arunaraje Patil’s newly released memoir is justly titled FREEDOM. It matches the title of her best known directorial work – RIHAEE- or liberation. The film, she...
Read More