Meena Kumari - A Legend

Meena Kumari’s rags to riches saga has a poignant edge to it. Dubbedthe greatest tragedienne of the Indian screen, her doomed personal life flashing with deep tragedy...

Durga Puja Special

For many years now I have enjoyed Puja in Bombay, the city of our adoption like thousands of probasi Bengalis. The Bengali community was once close, everyone knew ...

The Portrayal Of Violence Against Women In Indian Cinema

It has become something of a cliché to claim that the 1950s was the golden age of Indian cinema, and that during the 1950s, we had more women-centric films than at o...

I Love Making Women-Centric Films: Shoojit Sircar.

In Kolkata for the DVD release of debutant director Anindya Chatterjee’s Open Tee Bioscope, a Bengali movie he produced, Shoojit Sircar opens up about his love for wo...

Suchitra Sen - Revisiting Icons

Standing at the far end of the room she resembled a house wife in a simple cotton saree. A few gold bangles twinkled musically round her wrist. That plump figure was out of...

Special Screenings, Workshops & Celebrities make a cinematic Saturday to remember at 6th Jagran Film Festival

~ Showman Subhash Ghai engages film enthusiasts in a ‘Master Class’ ~

~ Neil Bhoopalam conducted...

Kadambari' Wins Best Film Award At Washington South Asian Film Festival

“Kadambari”, a Bengali film centred around Kadambari Devi, sister-in-law of Rabindranath Tagore with whom he is supposed to have had a close personal relationsh...

Rajkumar Hirani, Imtiaz Ali, Kalki Kochelin, Kundan Shah, Nilesh Maniyar grace Jagran Film Festival Day 3

~ Much awaited Jagran Shorts unfold the ultimate shot of short films.  Screening of ‘Birdman’ brings Country focus on US ~

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Day 2 At 6th Jagran Film Festival Mumbai Scales New Heights.

~ Movies and master classes a huge hit among Mumbai cine goers ~
~ Day 2 proved to be a melting pot of world cultu...