After Elite, another heritage single screen theatre in Kolkata, Mitra cinema has been shut down this month. In a recent interview with The Times Of India, the proprietor of the single screen theatre, Dipen Mitra said that he was facing various problems which pushed him to take the step. Dipen had reportedly invested Rs20 lakh … Read more
Kaushik Ganguly’s Nagarkirtan will finally be released next Friday after a court ruled that Acropolis Entertainment Pvt Ltd has the required rights. The film was initially slated for release yesterday; but Mojo Productions, which earlier held the distribution rights but backed out while the promotions were underway, began asserting its rights with just four days left and the matter … Read more
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
The winners at the 24th Kolkata International Film Festival were announced yesterday, the closing date of the festival. The festival began on 10 November and various national and international artistes, including Simon Baker, Majid Majidi and Shoojit Sircar, participated. In the National Competition in Indian Language Films, Arijit Biswas was chosen for the Hiralal Sen Memorial award for Best … Read more
Music director turned filmmaker Indraadip Dasgupta’s debut feature Kedara (English title: The Songs Of Silence) was premiered in the India Competition section of the 24th Kolkata International Film Festival in the presence of the director, actors Kaushik Ganguly and Rudranil Ghosh, dialogue writer Srijato Bandopadhyay, producer Samiran Das and actress Mousumi Sanyal Dasgupta, who makes her … Read more