Anil Chatterjee

Mumtaz Sorcar is going great guns. Her role of Sumita Devi in Kamaleswar Mukherjee���s film on Ritwik Ghatak is inspired by none other than Supriya Devi.

Scientist Anil Chatterjee spent decades toiling at a lab at the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Dona Paula, to discover that the endangered creature—the horseshoe crab—holds cures for some of the most widespread and dreaded illnesses, including diabetes and leukemia.

One of Satyajit Ray’s finest works, ‘Kanchenjunga’ (1962) happens to be the first coloured Bengali film and is also regarded as the first Indian anthology film. People who are familiar with Ray's Apu Trilogy will find it hard to digest the fact that the same Ray is the director of this film.

‘Kanchenjungha’ is set in the hilly areas and revolves around the 20th-century problems in a pristine location.

A vacation to Puri with father Tarun Bhaduri in the 1960s had landed Jaya Bachchan a role in Satyajit Ray’s ‘Mahanagar’. Sharmila Tagore and Robi Ghosh, who were then shooting there for Tapan Sinha’s ‘Nirjan Saikate’, had spotted her. Convinced she would be the right fit for playing the role of Anil Chatterjee’s sister, Bani, in ‘Mahanagar’, they told Ray about it.

April 20, 1963. The then President, Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, was presenting the 10th National Awards.

An old black-and white still of a 14-year old Jaya Bhaduri holding a picture of the cover of Filmfare magazine featuring Sharmila Tagore has gone viral.

We all have seen Kamal Haasan playing a wide range of characters in a number of Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi movies over the years and he has been an institution for generations of actors.

The lyrics by Piya and Prantik Chakraborty try to paint the picture of doomsday, as the constant struggle between hope and despair prevails.

While most youngsters in his age group loved football, Soumitra Chatterjee demonstrated a penchant for hockey as a student of City College. A student of the Bengali department, Pulu (Chatterjee’s pet name) was more interested in hockey and other games, but wasn’t quite keen on football.

Tnusree plays Akira, a gun-trotting woman who travels through the rural belts of Bengal on a vehicle avoiding towns and cities in a post-apocalyptic world as zombies have captured most of the urban areas.

Written and directed by Abhirup Ghosh, ‘Zombiesthaan’ is Bengal’s first zombie movie and a post-apocalyptic adventure.

In this new series of #DirectorsCut, ETimes talks about these relatively lesser-known and yet brilliant films by iconic directors that were overshadowed by their more popular filmworks. This week, we take a look at Tapan Sinha’s 1976 film ‘Harmonium’, a simple yet subtle take on fate.

Bumba Da aka Prosenjit Chatterjee and Aryann Bhowmik starrer film ‘Yeti Obhijaan’, is all set to air today (April 22) during the lockdown. The film is a sequel to ‘Mishawr Rawhoshyo’.

Abhirup Ghosh’s next ‘Zombiesthaan’ is making headlines ever since the film was announced. The makers have now announced the release date and it's December 13.

The film is set in the year 2030 when a mysterious biochemical weapon ends up affecting a vast majority of the world population.

Written and directed by Abhirup Ghosh, ‘Zombiesthaan’ is Bengal’s first zombie movie and a post-apocalyptic adventure.

It was a unique Times Evening Food and Folk Festival 2009 at Lake Palli of Santoshpur in south Kolkata

In this new series of #DirectorsCut, ETimes talks about these relatively lesser-known and yet brilliant films by iconic directors that were overshadowed by their more popular filmworks. This week, we will discuss Tapan Sinha’s solo travel film ‘Nirjan Saikate’ (1965).