'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

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 ...

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 ...

d of being restored The writer has posted comments on this article Zinia SenZinia Sen , TNN | May 18, 2013, 12.00 AM IST Madhabi Mukherjee in Charulata RELATED It's a proud moment for India as a restored Charulata is screened at Cannes today. But ...

They might be playing bit roles, but have a bigger cause to champion — good cinema. Actors on why they took up Kamaleswar Mukherjee's Meghe Dhaka Tara despite negligible screen time. Mumtaz Sorcar I play Meenu, an actress inspired by Supriya ...

In the role of a counsellor coming to the aid of an ailing mercurial director undergoing treatment at a hospital, popular actor Abir Chatterjee says not seeing Ritwik Ghatak's films again before shoot helped in increasing believability of the character in ...

ness of a genius The writer has posted comments on this article Ratnottama SenguptaRatnottama Sengupta , TNN | Jun 9, 2013, 03.40 AM IST RELATED KOLKATA: He was Meghe Dhaka Tara. He was a star who was less acknowledged in his lifetime. In ...