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Take a pinch of Dhund (1973), punch it with two or three generous cups full of Jism (2003) and add a few pinches of dramatic twists and turns of your own. The dish that comes out of the cold storage is Kee Korey Bojhabo Tomaake directed by Chhaya Singh who uses the film as her launch pad into acting. Review KEE [...]

If you thought that the soppy, sentimental and regressive portrayal of a woman faded away after Meena Kumari, Amrita will bring those images rushing back. For youngsters not familiar with Main Chup Rahungi, Kaajal, Sharada and Chandan Ka Palna where Meena Kumari’s screen image was identified with glycerine and tolerance, can learn what her image was like in Amrita directed by Tapan Saha.  In this [...]

How and where does Laptop fit into Kaushik Ganguly’s earlier films? It establishes the creative identity of Kaushik Ganguly as a significant filmmaker who can not only write a credible story but can also tell it with conviction in a poetic and lyrical manner even if the central figure is an inanimate creation of modern science – a laptop. A laptop owned by [...]

Raja Chanda clears all doubts about the ‘originality’ of the storyline of Le Halua Le in by naming the Malayalam original Poochakkoru Mookkuthi when the credits roll. The film was also remade in Hindi as Hungama (2003) where Paresh Rawal portrayed the character Mithun Chakraborty does in Le Halua Le. Shree Venkatesh Films has wizened up to the need for buying the [...]

Aatta Aater Bongaon Local is a collage of incidents of public humiliation and physical insults indulged in by goons with strong political backing picked from news stories. The scenario is jeopardized when Ananta Das (Tapas Pal) a lowly clerk who commutes to work on Bongaon Local triggers physical outrage against persistent attacks on senior citizens, children, [...]

Basu Chatterjee’s Rajanigandha (1974) in Hindi was a path-breaker in what came to be known as ‘middle-of-the-road’ cinema. It walked the tightrope between powerful content and commercial success beautifully without compromising to gross commercial demands. The introduction of actors like Amol Palekar, Vidya Sinha and Dinesh Thakur did not stop it from becoming one of the biggest [...]