Premer Kahini - a re-review

People ignorant about Kannada films will not learn that Premer Kahini is the Bengali remake of the megahit Kannada film Mangaru Male. Shot on an astounding budget of Rs.2.5 crores, the script quality of the film is uneven, very slow and dragging in the beginning and then picking up after the interval to speed to an action-packed, sentimental melodramatic climax. More

Shawb Choritro Kalponik

All Characters are Imaginary. This is the intriguing title of Rituparno Ghosh's new film in Bangla. In Bengali, the original title is Shawb Choritro Kalponik. Undeterred by three of his directorial films Khela, Sunglass and The Last Lear lying in cold storage till the time of this write-up, Rituparno Ghosh finished shooting his new Bengali film recently with Prosenjit, Bipasha Basu, Paoli Dam and Jishu Sengupta featuring in the principal roles. The film’s USP is that Bipasha Basu is featuring in her first film in Bangla, her mother tongue. More

Mullick Bari

“Though we have trained hundreds of men and women in different branches of cinema technique, we found that many of them cannot get into the field despite their brilliance. The other block is that training institutes and film/media industry run along parallel lines, having few bridges to link them. These two realizations motivated us to enter into film production,” says Father PJ Joseph, Director, Chitrabani and co-director of Chitrabani’s first feature film in Bengali, Mullick Bari.. More

Lovesongs - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - a re-review

The first thing that strikes a discordant note about Lovesongs - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is its choice of language – English. The story, the characters, the ambience placed in a Kolkata setting is too ‘Bengali’ for the film to lend itself to English as the lingua franca. Agreed, that the contemporary urban Bengali carries an overload of English with him all the time. Agreed, that English widens the canvas of the film to include an international audience. But one feels that had the director chosen Bengali, the film might have been warmer. More

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