Women Power In Vogue, Say Vidya Balan, Sharmila Tagore.

Dubbing the Kolkata International Film Festival’s (KIFF) endeavour to focus on films helmed by women as “poetic justice”, Bollywood actresses Vidya B...

Amitabh Bachchan To Inaugurate Kolkata Film Festival

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan will inaugurate the upcoming 21st edition of Kolkata Film Festival, which will screen 149 films from 61 countries. The opening ceremony ...

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...

Nadia In West Bengal Goes Churu Way, Achieves Open Defecation-Free Tag

The Centre has lauded the involvement of government officials in successfully implementing sanitation programmes across states. A recent communiqué issued by the Min...

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...