'Meghe Dhaka Tara' is in sync with Ghatak's cinema: Director

It took nearly a year for director Kamaleshwar Mukherjee to research on Ritwik Ghatak. He consulted various books on the veteran director; spoke to his family members — wife Surama Ghatak and daughter Samhita — and associates

They may not agree on whos the master, Ray or Ghatak, or whether ilish is tastier than chingri but Calcuttans are unanimous in their opinion that air pollution is choking the city and its people. The TERI Environment Survey, 2013, released recently in Delhi, ...

A part of the eventful personal life of iconic film director Ritwik Ghatak is being recreated on celluloid by actor Saswata Chatterjee. Chatterjee is very excited at bagging the role, which he described as the most intense in his career. My role in ...

A threat letter sent to agriculture minister Moloy Ghatak allegedly by a Maoist outfit has sent officials of the Asansol-Durgapur police commissionerate into a tizzy. Ghatak reportedly received the threat letter by registered post at his Apcargarden residence ...

Ever since I was a copywriter at Response Advertising, Kolkata, I was an avid watcher of films by Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen and Tapan Sinha. Viewing their films I learnt a lot about the language of filmmaking. In my heart of hearts, I ...

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KOLKATA: Satyajit Ray, was the first to have pioneered Bengali Cinema. Several others like Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen followed. And there were many others, but there was just one who could match up to the legends Rituparno Ghosh, the man who left ...

MUMBAI: Rajshri Productions' Kavita Barjatya is all set to produce Hindi cinema's first detective saga filled with suspense and adventure. Titled Samrat And Co, the movie will be directed by Kaushik Ghatak. What's more, the movie may also see ...

June 18: Three Trinamul gram panchayat nominees in Burdwan and Birbhum have almost entire families contesting in the rural polls, defying a party decision against such a practice. In Burdwan, leaders of two Trinamul factions who are themselves in ...