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Showing posts with label Bengali cinema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bengali cinema. Show all posts
4 October 2019

The dream machine - II

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My Mirror column : What might we learn about our relationship with machines from Ritwik Ghatak’s classic Ajantrik and Buddhadev Dasgupta’...

The dream machine

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My Mirror column : In Buddhadev Dasgupta’s thought-provoking new film, a  man obsessed with a plane starts talking to ghosts, making one t...
8 September 2019

The Spirit of Technologies Past

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My Mirror column : As we hurtle ever faster into a digitised present, some recent films cast an affectionate glance back at the technologi...
18 August 2019

Literary Heroines and Necklaces of Tears

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The second instalment of my  TVOF  column  Shelf Life , in which I look at literature through the prism of clothing. From coveted posse...
7 May 2019

The sense of an ending

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My Mirror column: In honour of Satyajit Ray's 98 th  birthday last week, here's a look back at one of his least-watched but lovelie...
2 March 2019

A Dormant Volcano

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My Mirror column : Mrinal Sen's  Chorus , 25 years after it was made, is a chilling reminder of how long India has spent making strid...

Reeling in the Real

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My Mirror column : Twenty years after his Baishey Shravana , Mrinal Sen revisited the subject of famine with Akaler Sandhane , producing a...
29 January 2019

Heartless Days

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My Mirror column: the 2nd in a series of tributes to Mrinal Sen In  Baishey Shravana  (1960), the late Mrinal Sen created a film as much ...
13 January 2019

Blue-sky filmmaking

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My Mirror column : The late Mrinal Sen’s career took off with a 1959 film,  Neel Akasher Neechey , a rare portrait of a Chinese protagoni...
6 January 2019

Obituary: Mrinal Sen 1923-2018

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FILMS WITHOUT FEAR Filmmaker Mrinal Sen, who died on Dec 31 at the age of 95, never stopped experimenting. Mrinal Sen made his fir...