Chander Pahar (Mountains Of The Moon, Dir.: Kamaleshwar Mukherjee; Cast: Dev, Gerard Rudolf et al.) Kamaleshwar Mukherjee follows up his masterclass, Meghe Dhaka Tara, with the action-adventure piece, Chander Pahar. While both films are in a way about exploring, breaking new grounds and striving to touch new heights, Meghe Dhaka Tara was about intensity and…
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The Two Types of Cinema
The Two Types of Cinema: For the Commune and for the Individual It is no doubt a tempting exercise to classify a group into two categories. Two being the smallest number greater than one, such an exercise is not really taxing on the mind. Just choose a criteria and you are done! And this is…
Review: Meghe Dhaka Tara (2013)
Meghe Dhaka Tara (2013) (Dir.: Kamaleswar Mukherjee; Cast: Saswata Chatterjee, Ananya Chatterjee, Abir Chatterjee et al.) Meghe Dhaka Tara is a fitting tribute to the great Ritwik Ghatak from Kamaleswar Mukherjee. In style, in substance, in form and even in its stark duo-tone, this new Meghe Dhaka Tara is a throwback to the great director’s…