Bombay high court disposes of Moushumi Chatterjee’s plea for guardianship of daughter Payal

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The Bombay high court has disposed of the plea of veteran actress Moushumi Chatterjee and her husband Jayanta Mukherjee for guardianship of their daughter Payal, who is currently in a coma. Chatterjee and her husband had accused son-in-law Dicky Sinha of not taking proper care of Payal and letting them meet her. The case was first … Read more

We as human beings are hardwired to the story, says Avijit Dutt

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The first day of the 6th Woodpecker International Film Festival saw veteran actor-director-playwright Avijit Dutt conduct a masterclass on storytelling for an enthusiastic audience, at the Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi on 23 November. The masterclass lasted about three hours where Dutt told ‘stories’ of his rather diverse and eclectic career and the significance … Read more

Recording studio to be set up in Mumbai’s Dharavi to nuture young talents

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A recording studio will be set up in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum locality for nurturing young talents and celebrating hip-hop culture. This is a collaboration between PepsiCo India and The Dharavi Project, a school that offers a platform to discover and showcase talents of hip-hop artists. The upcoming studio will be called ‘PepsiCo Recording Studio’. The … Read more

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra at IFFI 2018

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Director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra believes that screenplay is about subtexts and moments, never about camera movements. “For me, a screenplay is never written. It is always rewritten, and rewritten and rewritten. A lot of times you mistake a story as a screenplay. I don’t think it’s that,” the Rang De Basanti (2006) filmmaker said while … Read more

Pratim Gupta claims Kaushik Ganguly’s Jyeshtha Putra is based on script he wrote with Rituparno Ghosh

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While filmmaker Kaushik Ganguly recently announced that the idea of his next film Jyeshtha Putra struck him while watching late filmmaker and cultural icon Rituparno Ghosh closely during his father’s death, filmmaker Pratim Gupta has claimed that story was jointly conceived and written by him and Ghosh. Ganguly had also said that Ghosh had himself … Read more