A Fulbright Fellow, seasoned journalist and editor, A K Nanda had a long career in writing and editing, working in the areas of research and analysis in economic studies, population studies, corporate management and accountancy, to name a few. He... More
Aaria is an A levels student at MET Rishikul Vidhyalaya, Mumbai. She has a passion for watching and making films. She wants to pursue a career in film making. She may be contacted at... More
Abhishek Talukder is a software engineer and an independent film maker. His very first short film, Ria, was showcased in Cannes Short Film corner in 2013 and won several awards in the Lake City International Film Festival, Bhopal. He has been an... More
Abirbhab Maitra is a student of Jadavpur University, currently pursuing a master's degree in Geology. Though he has to study rocks for passing examinations, his primary interest is cinema with a dream of making a film in the... More
Adrian Martin is Senior Research Fellow in Film and Television Studies, Monash University (Australia), Co-Director of the Research Unit in Film Culture and Theory, and Co-Editor of Rouge film magazine... More
Aineesh Dutt is a high school student in his senior year at St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Kolkata. His hobbies include music, literature, cinema, philosophy and... More
Aishika Chakraborty is Associate Professor in History in Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College. Her research interests include Gender History and Dance... More
Akash Nag is a student of Garden High School, Kolkata. He swears by cricket but loves swimming and watching football as well. When in a good mood, Akash loves to draw the world of his... More
Amitava Nag is an independent film critic based in Kolkata and editor of Silhouette. His most recent books on cinema are Murmurs: Silent Steals with Soumitra Chatterjee, 16 Frames and Smriti Sattwa o Cinema. His earlier writings include the... More
After qualifying as a CA, I worked in the field of Investment Banking for around 18 years wth JM Financials and Kotak Mahindra and did a stint in the media with SONY. I now run a business advisory firm and I am an independent director on the Boards... More
Anandana Kapur is an award winning filmmaker whose work has been showcased at various international and national festivals. She has lent her voice to over 22 films till date and her experience in Communications Training spans 9 years. As Visiting... More
Anshula is Correspondent, Silhouette Magazine. She has specialised in post-production from AAFT, Noida. Anshula shares her artwork and stories on her blog on LnC and writes on movies for Silhouette Magazine. She also has her own YouTube channel... More
Editor in Chief, Learning and Creativity; Consulting Editor, Silhouette Magazine. A former business journalist, Antara writes extensively on the changing trends of music, direction and filmmaking in cinema. Her articles aim to provide... More
Anuradha Warrier is an editor by profession, a writer by inclination, and is passionate about books, music and films, all of which she writes about on her blog, Conversations over... More
Arghya Tarafder has a degree in English literature. A movie bug in his mind, Arghya is ready to unleash himself in the world that revolves around photography, cinema and pop culture. Have perchance for life, love and... More
Ashish Dwivedi is a Film and Animation researcher, creative editor, and writer, currently based at the University of Southampton where he is researching the cinema(s) of Guru Dutt towards his doctorate. He researches around Early Popular Bombay... More
Avijit Das Patnaik is a banker by profession, network marketeer by choice, frequent traveller by rule, mad about sports by religion, socially active, foodie, stand up comedian (even while sitting) and Moviemaniac by... More
Baidurya Chakrabarti is a student of English, and an avid cinephile. He is a French New Wave fanatic; he swears by Woody Allen, and has an ongoing, tempestuous relationship with Bela... More
Balaji has been a freelancer with The Metroplus and Young World (The Hindu) contributing articles around trends, events, fashion and celebrity interviews. He along with Anirudha Bhattacharjee authored the book RD Burman: The Man, The Music... More
Barnali Saha is a creative writer from Kolkata, India, currently living in Nashville, TN, USA. She enjoys writing short stories, poetry, travelogues and articles. Her works have been published in several newspapers and magazines in India (The... More
In addition to watching movies and imitating dance routines very poorly, Beth Watkins work in the world cultures museum of a big university in Illinois, has a dog, and likes to read and knit, both of which are hard to do while watching subtitled... More
Bhaskar Chattopadhyay is a writer and translator. His translations include the anthology 14: Stories That Inspired Satyajit Ray (Harper Collins), Shirshendu Mukherjee’s adventure novellas No Child’s Play (Harper Collins) and The House By The Lake... More
Bidhan Mondal has done his M.A. in English & B.Ed from The University of Burdwan in West Bengal. He has qualified in UGC-NET & obtained the award of JRF. At present he is doing his M.Phil research from Folklore Department of Kalyani... More
Bimal Chadha, a Master in Biochemistry, has had a long stint with the media in the management stream. An aficionado of vintage music and movies, he is an avid reader and occasional writer. The nephew of the legendary actor Shyam, he has authored a... More
Binayak Roy is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at
K.G.T.Mahavidyalaya, Bagdogra, West Bengal.His research interests include the Indian English Novel, post colonial literature and the cinema of Satyajit... More
Bipin Parekh is the host of GunjanRadio program, a no-commercial, community service radio program broadcast from Univ. of Mass., since 1983. He retired from a R & D job as a Chemical Engineer. A Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from State Univ.... More
Bubla Basu is a Mumbai based educationist who is also a freelance writer. She has been associated with the prestigious Prithvi Theatre and now conducts Shakespeare classes for... More
Champa Srinivasan writes on various blogs and magazines, including B’khush.com on real life issues and incidents. She is a Post Graduate in English literature from Jadavpur University and has taught English in an Undergraduate college in Kolkata.... More
Chandak Sengoopta teaches History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He grew up in Calcutta and has been interested in Satyajit Ray's work for more than three decades. His other research interests range from the history of European... More
Darius Cooper is a Professor of Humanities and Critical thinking in the English Department at the San Diego Mesa College. He has published widely on cinema, poetry and stories in India and abroad including two books on Satyajit Ray and Guru... More
Debalina Banerjee is Assistant Professor of English, Vidyasagar Evening College. Currently pursuing PhD on " 'Mother' and 'Wife': Interrogating stereotypes in Five Indian English Women Novelists" from Visva-Bharti University. She has paid academic... More
Debamitra Mitra is the Principal and Assistant Director-Research of ILEAD. With an M Phil and PhD in International Relations and History from Jadavpur University and Calcutta University respectively, Dr. Mitra has 23 years of experience in academics... More
Debarati Bhattacharjee is a scientist by profession. When she is not working, which is often, she watches movies and reads books, and dreams of going to exotic lands. She is an avid traveller and frequently dreams of a parallel universe where she is... More
A freelancer consulting Social Development Specialist, Debasish works in large-scale infrastructure development projects in India and abroad as well.
An Anthropologist turned Regional Planner Debasish (Shibaji) is fond of several activities from... More
Dennis Redmond is an independent scholar and media critic in the US, who works extensively with multinational video culture and digital media (esperially the 3D videogame). Some of his work is available online at... More
Devapriya Sanyal has a Ph.D in English Literature from JNU. She is the author of From Text to Screen: Issues and Images in Schindler’s List and Through the Eyes of a Cinematographer: The Biography of Soumendu Roy, which has recently been published... More
Dibyabibha Roy, Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Malda Women's College, holds his M.A. and M.Phil from the University of Calcutta, and also holds a PGDMC from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. His areas of interest are gender, Indian Writing... More
Dipyaman Ganguly is a cinephile especially with great interest in progressive world cinema creating new frontiers of cinematic aesthetics. Professionally he is a... More
Dr. Koshy A.V. is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the English Department of Jazan University, Saudi Arabia. He has many books, degrees, diplomas, certificates, prizes, and awards to his credit and also, besides teaching, is an editor,... More
Dr. Amrit Sen is presently Reader in English at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. Interested in Eighteenth century Studies, Travel Writing, Tagore Studies and the History of Science, he has won the outstanding research award for his doctoral... More
In late 50s, during his stay in Mumbai, Dr Padmanabh K Joshi met lyricist Shailendra who introduced him to maestros Shankar-Jaikishan. He attended many of their recordings, discussed film music, background music, etc with them. He also met music... More
Dr Seemin Hasan is a Reader in the Department of English, AMU, Aligarh. She has been teaching literature and language courses for over twenty-five years. She earned a PhD on John Keats. She is the author of two books and numerous articles and papers... More
Earl Jackson Jr is professor of Cinema Studies at Korean National University of the Arts, author of Strategies of Deviance, and numerous articles. Contributed to the script for the film Viewfinder (Kim Jeong, 2009), which premiered at Pusan... More
Raised in Sydney, Australia, Fatima is currently based in Dunedin, New Zealand and is pursuing her degree in Physiology at the University of Otago. She has a growing interest in cinema and gender studies. More broadly, she is keen to explore the... More
Gajendra Khanna, born into a music loving Punjabi family has stayed across India and currently resides in Bangalore. An engineer by profession, he holds an M.Tech. degree in Computer Technology from IIT Delhi. Other than computing, he has interest... More
An economics major who has spent a decade in communications industry handling some very well reputed brands. Currently based out of Bangalore, her varied interests include literature, cinema, visual art, animal welfare, yoga, spirituality, world... More
Gaston Roberge, a Jesuit Father, was born in 1935 in Montreal, Canada. He volunteered to come to India and he was sent to Kolkata where arrived on 15 October 1961. He has a MA in Film Studies from the University of Los Angeles,... More
Gaurav Sahay is a Delhite largely though with substantial exposure to urban and quasi rural Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. He has a Masters in Business Administration and a law degree from Delhi University. He is a banker by profession but has... More
Gayatri Chatterjee is a visiting faculty at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts and at the Department of Cinematography, Bharati Vidyapeeth. She has been faculty in the Direction department at the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune;... More
HQ Chowdhury is a freelance writer on music and films. He first wrote in the late 1960s for the People, an English daily from Dhaka and then for a while in the early 1970s for Cine Advance, published from Kolkata and Mumbai. He is the author of... More
Indranil is an academic and a researcher with a strong interest in documentaries and realist forms in cinema. A film editor by training, Indranil has worked in various capacities in the television industry in India, as well as in independent... More
Jael Silliman was a tenured Associate Professor of Women Studies at the University of Iowa, (1996 – 2002). Thereafter she served as Program Officer for Reproductive Rights and Women’s Rights at the Ford Foundation in New York (2003 – 2009). In 2014... More
John W Hood divides his time between Melbourne and Kolkata, writing about Indian and Bangladeshi cinema and translating Bengali literature. He has written The Essential Mystery. Major Filmmakers of Indian Art Cinema, as well as books on Mrinal Sen,... More
lives in Trivandrum, Kerala. He has been employed with UN organizations for over 20 years, specializing in resource mobilization for international non-profit agricultural research. Earlier, he was a film critic with the Hindustan Times Group in New... More
Jyoti is a Content Developer and a lover of books, an Engineer by education who finally found her calling in words. Taking long walks, practising yoga, listening to music, meeting a good friend over a cup of tea, baking the perfect cake – all these... More
Kaustav Bakshi is Assistant Professor, Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He is pursuing a doctoral programme on Expatriate Sri Lankan Fiction in English at the Department of English, Jadavpur University. Apart from... More
Krupa Shah teaches English at VIT University, Chennai. She has a PhD in Translation Studies from the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar. Her research interests include the cultural and literary history of twentieth... More
Kunal Desai is a passionate music lover and musician, with deep interest in listening to all genres and exploring nuances of every type of music. He is a Supply Chain Management Professional and writes on various aspects of film... More
Kusumita Rakshit has been a student of fine arts and photography at the Berkeley Art Studio, University of California, Berkeley. She holds degrees in economics and business management and taught graphic designing and digital editing at Biju... More
Labanya Dey is an ardent learner in the field of cinema and literature, currently doing her masters at the Dept of Film Studies, Jadavpur University. She writes on cinema in several online journals. Mountains and hill stations are her escape route... More
Lata Jagtiani, a post-graduate in English Literature and Aesthetics, was born and brought up in Mumbai. Widely travelled, she has been a lecturer, both in India and abroad. She has written articles for several newspapers and websites and has... More
Leyre Villate Garrcia did both her BA in Linguistics and English Literature and her MA in Teaching Spanish as Foreign Language in Salamanca (Spain), plus a one-year degree in Japanese Language and Culture from Kansai Gaidai University (Osaka). She... More
Silhouette Magazine is a platform for gathering myriad views on film (and allied art forms) and to continue with the flux of discourse. The Silhouette publications are our attempt to achieve this... More
Lopamudra Banerjee is an acclaimed author, poet, translator, editor with nine solo books and six anthologies in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. She has received the Journey Awards (First Place category winner) for her memoir Thwarted Escape: An... More
Lyndsy Spence is the founder of the Margaret Lockwood Society. Her books The Mitford Girls' Guide to Life and Mrs Guinness: The Rise and Fall of Diana Mitford were published by The History Press. Her forthcoming book, The Mistress of Mayfair will be... More
Madhuja Mukherjee is Professor of Film Studies at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her research involves: South Asian film and media industrial histories, sound in cinema, gender, labour, digital practice, and urban cultures. She focuses on archives,... More
Madhulika Liddle is a novelist and award-winning short story writer, best known as a writer of historical and detective fiction: her Mughal detective Muzaffar Jang is the star of a best-selling series of books. She also writes non-fiction,... More
Maitreyee B Chowdhury is a web columnist, poet and creative writer. She is author of three books 'Reflections on My India', 'Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen: Bengali Cinema's First Couple' and 'Where Even The Present Is Ancient: Benaras'. She writes on... More
Mamta Joshi did her post graduation in History from Allahabad University. She has been teaching English Literature to College section in St. Mary's Convent Inter College, Allahabad, for past two decades. Passionate about writing, her poems, essays... More
Manek Premchand has a diploma in Journalism and a degree in Arts from Bombay University. He has many friends in the film industry and remains fascinated by the enormous role that Hindi cinema's music has played as a key bonding medium in a country... More
Manoj Barpujari, a journalist based in Guwahati, received Swarna Kamal for the best film critic at the National Film Awards 2011. He wrote a chapter on cinema of Assam in Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas (London, 2013) and conducted a workshop... More
Margaret Redlich has her Masters in Cinema and Media Studies from DePaul University in Chicago. She is the Area Chair for Indian Popular Culture in the Midwest Popular Culture Association and has been published in both academic texts and popular... More
Marjan Riahi is the Founder & Manager of Short Film News, (http://en.shortfilmnews.com) as the first news network on short films and documentaries in Iran & Asia. She graduated in Communications Science, Journalism branch from Islamic Azad... More
Mayurakshee Gangopadhyay holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) degree in Human Development. Living in Kolkata, Mayurakshee teaches Human Development in a city college. She has interest in research works and is also a rehabilitation psychologist. An... More
Michelangelo Paganopoulos, a scholar with a Film & TV Studies background and a PhD in Social Anthropology, has delved into intriguing topics related to social anthropology and its intersection with film & technology and the broader world... More
Michelle Baitali Bhowmik is Lecturer in Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Rani Birla Girls’ College. She finished her MA in the Department of Film Studies , Jadavpur University and now teaches film and... More
Monica Kar has her BA in English Literature from the University of Delhi. She now lives in St. Charles, Missouri, USA, where she wears many hats. While she has worked in Publishing, Retail, Education and Construction in various roles, she has been a... More
In the fifties I was fond of seeing Dev Anand movies, due to their unmatched and incomparable music of all genres. I still remember, I went to see Taxi Driver (1954) to hear its music by S. D. Burman. I became a lifelong fan of the peerless maestro... More
Mukul Sharma grew up in Jaipur, graduated from National Law School, Bangalore. Works with a corporate law firm to pay for books and movie tickets. Idolises Tony Stark and emulates... More
Nafees Ahmed loves Cinema. Loves Coffee. Loves Food. Loves his gal. Loves Music. Drools over home made Biryani. Unbiased, unjudgemental and unprofessional writer with a little tweak of sarcasm. Enslaved to a '9 to 6' job as software... More
Niilesh A Raje views writing as meditation. He is a "Business Analyst" by profession and a "Writer" by passion. In 2007, he was selected as "The Youth of the Nation" to represent India at the first CCS World Youth Forum held in the European... More
Nilanjan Bhattacharya is a documentary filmmaker, artist, writer and a scavenger of knowledge from Kolkata, India. He started his career by assisting acclaimed filmmaker Tapan Sinha. As an independent filmmaker he took up documentary as his medium... More
Nirabari Bandyopadhyay has done M.A. in Film Studies from Jadavpur University. She is a research scholar and working as an assistant professor of Media & Film at iLEAD College in Kolkata. Her research area includes Genre Studies and New Media.... More
Nishi Pulugurtha is Reader in English, Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata. She was a UGC Research Fellow,University of Calcutta and earned her Ph.D on Coleridge’s poetry. Her post doctoral work dealt poetry written in English by Bengalis in... More
NS Rajan is a retired senior IRS Officer. He is an avid reader and a sports lover, particularly cricket, having watched many greats in action from the late 1940s (he has played cricket at a fairly competitive level). He loves listening to music of... More
Omar Ahmed is a PhD Researcher at the University of Manchester. He was awarded funding by the AHRC in 2015 to investigate Indian Parallel Cinema. He is also a Film & Media Studies teacher, formerly Head of Film at Aquinas College, Manchester. He... More
Oorvazi Irani is a freelance film educationalist, acting trainer, filmmaker and director of her home production company SBI Impresario Pvt. Ltd., (incorporated in 1975). She has introduced the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique to India, she conducts... More
OP Srivastava is a career banker, having spent 35 years in public and private sector banks in India. He is known for his pioneering contribution to introducing technology to banking in India and for setting up the fastest and largest retail ‘ brick... More
Pankaj Sharma is an avid reader, an active blogger and a passionate writer who wishes to read all the classics written by the literary geniuses of 19th and 20th... More
Parag Sankla is a software engineer and music lover currently based in San Francisco, USA. He is one of the founder members of the website http://www.geetadutt.com dedicated to legendary playback singer Geeta Dutt ji. He has been fascinated by her... More
Partha Pratim Ghosh is a senior Engineering professional. Being an avid reader Physics, Cinema and Literature are his strongest passions. He writes on cinema and poetry and is a poet himself apart from translating poems. His writings are published... More
To talk of a few passions of Peeyush, one must start with music. He is known to be a collector of music and information pertaining to Indian cinema (majorly Hindi) spanning a period from early 1930s to 1980s. He has a large collection of Bengali and... More
Philip Cheah is a film critic and is the editor of BigO, Singapore's only independent pop culture publication. He is currently program consultant for the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Hanoi Int’l Film Festival, Jaffna International Film Festival... More
A painter, facilitator, and art consultant by profession, Piu never let go the opportunity to work around and along with the ‘Curious little George’ of different schools in India and abroad. Her articles on art education and awareness have been... More
Pooja Das Sarkar had completed her Masters from TISS in Media and Cultural Studies. Cinema has always fascinated her and her favourites include Woody Allen when it comes to comic genius and Kieslowski when it comes to representing the human... More
Pradip Biswas is a veteran film scholar and author of 28 books on International directors and cinema. Pradip Biswas has so far served as jury member in many International film festivals of the world and is the winner of the Best International critic... More
Prasanna P is an ICSSR Doctoral Fellow pursuing his Ph.D. in history at Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, in the State of Tamil Nadu, India. In his doctoral research, he investigates Handloom Weavers and the Weavers’ Co-operative Societies... More
A Television script writer by profession with an undying thirst for all things creative. A knowledge junkie on the lookout for the next fix! An obsessive reader, an amateur star gazer and a firebrand who lives by her own... More
Rahul Dang is a digital marketer in Wisitech, with a passion for spinning engaging marketing campaigns for social media. Rahul has honed his skills in search engine optimization (SEO), social media marketing, and content creation, helping businesses... More
Ramendra Kumar (Ramen) is an award-winning author, performance storyteller, and TEDx speaker whose 54 books span fiction for all ages, satire, biographies, and inspirational non-fiction. Translated into 33 languages and recipient of 41 All-India... More
Rashmi Sawhney is Lecturer in Visual Cultural Studies at the Dublin Institute of Technology where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in film and cultural studies. She has published widely in international journals and edited book... More
A National Award winner for her Writings on Cinema, Ratnottama Sengupta is a natural writer with keen understanding of Cinema and Visual Art. A Journalist since 1978, she has been with The Times of India, The Telegraph, Screen and been the Editor of... More
Ravneet Kaur is an assistant professor in English Department, Deshbandhu College, Delhi University. She is pursuing her PhD in film studies. Her interests include photography and... More
Rhitam Bagchi is a 15 year old boy from Kolkata. He studies in the 10th grade at Birla High School. Apart from playing football, he likes to play the Harmonica and the Keyboard. He got introduced to Satyajit Ray’s work at a young age. His favourite... More
Richa Tewari is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities in Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology,Kanpur.She has been teaching Professional Communication in B. Tech., MCA & MBA courses for over years. Her area of PhD... More
Riddhiman Basu is an IT Professional living and working in Kolkata. He is very passionate about Philosophy, Music, Literature and World Cinema. He pursues film studies as a hobby. He is an amateur writer of short fiction, film related articles and a... More
Romit Chowdhury has recently received his M.A. in Media and Cultural Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He has published articles, essays, reviews and short fiction in The Statesman, India Together, Infochange, Phalanx and... More
A writer, poet, graphic designer, harmonica player, Ronin is an artist who loves to do whatever he does. He likes fiction and fantasy genre and is a huge fan of Van Gogh, comic book legend Stan Lee, Munshi Premchand, and Dan Brown to name a few.... More
Rwita Dutta, an Assistant Professor of Politics, is involved in films in various capacities. She runs and edits the international film journal
Film Buff and has acted as a jury in different film festivals at home and abroad. A member of Fipresci,... More
S Vishwanath is a Senior Film Critic and journalist with over 30 years in the field and is a regular jury in several film festivals in India and abroad. A Post Graduate in English Literature & MS in Communication with Film Studies as Special... More
Samraghini Bonnerjee passed her MA in English Literature from the University of Calcutta in 2011 and is currently an Oberstufe student of German at the Goethe Institute, Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata. She is also a trained Rabindra sangeet singer. She... More
Sananda Chatterji, born in Kolkata, raised in New Delhi and settled in NZ since 2003 with family. She studied Film/TV/Media Studies and Marketing at University of Auckland, NZ. Her interests vary from lazing in front of the tele to theatre... More
Sandipan Roy Chowdhury stays in Kolkata and works in an Indian IT organisation. His biggest passions are listening to music and watching movies. Sandipan tries to observe the universe, and imbibe the knowledge and the art from the surroundings to... More
The eldest child and only daughter of legendary music composer Madan Mohan, Sangeeta Gupta grew up in a household filled with music and innovation. Although not formally trained in music, Sangeeta learned to appreciate good music created by all the... More
Dr Santosh Bakaya is the author of three mystery novels for young adults, and a book of essays titled Flights From My Terrace, which was recently published as an e-book on Smashwords. Her poetic biography of Mahatma Gandhi, Ballad Of Bapu has been... More
Saraswathy is an art historian, art writer and a pedagogue, involved in writing academic and popular formats of writing about visual culture since last half a decade. Her concerns involve interdisciplinary and interventional abilities of static and... More
Sarbasree Bandyopadhyay teaches History in a college in West Midnapore, West Bengal and researches on women studies. Her area of interest is in films and their influence on... More
Currently Consulting Editor with HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt Ltd, Sathya Saran's books include Ten Years with Guru Dutt Abrat Alvi's Journey, Sun Mere Bandhu Re The Musical World of SD Burman, a collection of short stories titled The Dark... More
Saumya Baijal, is a Delhi based writer, poet and co-founder of the activist theatre group Aatish. She has been writing on films for many years, and is particularly enamoured by the films of the 1950s and 1960s in Commercial Hindi Cinema. Her... More
Sauronil Ghosh is a final year Medical Student, a film enthusiast. He has previously written in Bengali on films in Bichitrapatra (published under the guidance of Sandip Ray), Film-Free, and short pieces in Anandabazar... More
Sayantan Mukherjee is a student of film studies and works as a video editor with documentary filmmakers. He is a part of the NGO Bichitra Pathshala and pens down abstract excerpts of his mind in his blog ‘Advent Arcane... More
Serena Formica's doctoral thesis dealt with Australian director Peter Weir as case-study of the migration to Hollywood of a contemporary filmmaker within the context of transnationalism. Serena’s other research interests are Italian Neorealism and... More
Shakun Narang is passionate about people, dancing, music, kids and their safety rights, traveling and city exploring. She is a perpetual dreamer and dream-chaser, a friend for life and companion for all conversations and part time Agony Aunt. A... More
Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri is an editor with India's leading publishing house. He pioneered the publishing of books of cinema in India and books commissioned by him have won the National Award for Best Book on Cinema and the MAMI Award for Best Writing... More
Sharmila Maiti is a film journalist and an amateur cartoonist. 'Bharati Devi: A Beautiful Heart' is her debut documentary film which has been screened in Kolkata film festival, Assam film festival and International Women’s film festival. She has... More
Shiladitya Sarkar is a painter and writer based in Mumbai. He has exhibited in UK, USA, Hongkong, West Indies, Singapore and in various parts of India. He has written two books: Thirst of a minstrel and Abstract Reality, the novel Clayfaces and the... More
Shirish Waghmode is a member of the family that ran the music store, Maharashtra Watch & Gramophone Co, Dadar(W), Mumbai for a record 91 years! From 78 RPM to EPs and then to LPs and then from cassettes to CDs & DVDs, they have been witness... More
Dr. Shoma A Chatterji is a freelance journalist, film scholar and author based in Kolkata. Her focus of interest lies in Indian cinema, human rights, media, gender and child rights. She has authored 24 books mainly on Indian cinema and on gender and... More
Shruti Nagpal is a Gold Medalist at both graduate and post graduate programmes in mass communication from two reputed universities of India. She is currently working as a Lecturer (TV and Video Production) at AJK Mass Communication Research Centre,... More
Shubham Roy Choudhury is a Project Fellow at Multimedia Stories project, School of Media, Communication and Culture, Jadavpur University. He is doing his PhD on transition of film sound from analog to digital technology in Hindi cinema from Dept of... More
Shweta Kulkarni is a dreamer, wanderer, and writer who is captivated by the fascinating world of cinema. She has been passionately writing about films and celebrities for over a decade and often indulges in some travel and lifestyle writing... More
Siddhartha Kumar Ghosh, born in Bhagalpur, worked in Germany and England before returning to India. He retired from Coal India as Chief General Manager. A multilingual intellectual, Ghosh translated, to Bengali, poems by renowned German poets... More
Silhouette Magazine is a platform for gathering myriad views on film (and allied art forms) and to continue with the flux of discourse. The Silhouette publications are our attempt to achieve this... More
Silhouette Film Society, formed in 2001 was a group of eventless youth who clubbed together in the placid afternoons of leisurely Calcutta Saturdays. They discussed cinema, argued with their PoVs, fought vociferously and loved the conundrum. Members... More
Sitabhra Sinha is a faculty member of the Theoretical Physics group in
the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. He is interested in film as a
medium for exploring social perceptions of reality. He can be contacted via... More
Dr Smita Banerjee is a Cinema Studies scholar and teaches English at DCAC,Delhi University. Her areas of interest are post-colonial studies, popular cinema and star studies. She has worked on Suchitra Sen and Uttam Kumar for her doctoral... More
Film historian, author and archivist of vintage film memorabilia SMM Ausaja is Senior Archivist (Cinema) at Tuli Research Centre for India Studies. Based in Mumbai, Ausaja has collected, preserved, archived and restored a phenomenal collection of... More
Sneha Samaddar is a film studies student doing her MA in English and Communication. She is also a professional dancer and hence belongs to the realm of interactive and communicative art form and also connects to them. Watching films is just not a... More
Sneha Subramanian Kanta is a poet, writer, critic and works as a Visiting Faculty in various colleges across Mumbai. A postgraduate in English Literature; her areas of interest are poetry, literary criticism and postcolonial literature. Her debut... More
Somdatta Mandal is Professor of English at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. Her areas of interest are American Studies, Contemporary Fiction, Film and Culture studies, Diaspora studies and Translation. A recipient of several international fellowships... More
Somdev Chatterjee is a freelance documentary filmmaker and writer for television. He teaches television direction and production at Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute,... More
Someswar Bhowmik is a media scholar and author, specializing in the sociology of mass media. He has so far authored sixteen books independently, including three in English. He also contributes regularly to distinguished academic journals,... More
Soumalya is a film critic, essayist, and translator, with an academic background in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University. He contributes critical essays to the leading English-language newspapers across India and Bangladesh, and... More
Soumyadeep Chakrabarti has been a lifelong admirer of Indian classical music, Rabindra Sangeet and the works of Salil Chowdhury, a love nurtured by his father, Pradeep Kumar Chakrabarti, a sitarist and disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar, whose vast... More
Sounak Gupta, Assistant Editor, LnC, is a passionate collector and archivist of Indian Music on Gramophone Records, often eager to share treasures from his collections with enthusiasts and researchers on various platforms. As a self-directed... More
Spandan Bhatacharya is Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus. He holds a PhD in Cinema Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His... More
Sridarshini Chakraborty is a Graphic & Web designer by profession and a creative writer by nature. She completed her masters in Economics from CU simultaneously continuing her journey as a writer as well as a visual artist. She also completed... More
Srinivas (Sri) Ganti was born and brought up in Hyderabad. He is an engineer by profession and works in the IT industry.
His IT career has taken him to various cities in US and Canada where he befriended vintage music lovers. Sri also collects rare... More
Srirupa Dhar lives in U.S.A. She has pursued advanced studies in English literature both in India and the U.S. In India she has had teaching experience. Presently, she is an amateur writer and pursues her passions of reading and... More
Stuti Goswami has taught English literature at B.Borooah College, Guwahati. She is a guest faculty for NELIT (erstwhile DOEACC) Guwahati and also a guest faculty of K.K.Handiqu State Open University. As a bi-lingual freelance writer and translator... More
Subha Das Mollick is a media teacher and a documentary filmmaker. She has made more than 50 documentary films on a variety of subjects, most of which have been aired on the national television. She had been the head of the Film Studies and Mass... More
Subhadeep Ghosh is a software engineer by profession. He is interested in film and other related art-forms and writes critical essays on cinema. He is one of the founder members of the Silhouette Film Society in 2001 and a regular at film festivals.... More
Subhajit Chatterji completed his Doctoral degree from Centre for the
Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore. He is currently associated with the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata as a teaching... More
Subham Dutta has completed his Post Graduation in English Literature from Visva-Bharati University. His areas of interest are Film Studies, Sports Literature, Social and Cultural Theories and Indian Philosophy. Furthermore, he takes delight in... More
Subhas Ghosal, an Engineering and Management Graduate majorly worked in the Information Technology domain with many multinational corporations. As a corporate, he worked in many countries and traveled across the globe. His major passion area... More
Film and music enthusiast Sundeep Pahwa has a wealth of knowledge and information on movies, especially of the Golden Era. He belongs to a family which was closely connected with the film industry and had produced two films Bahu (1955) and Bombay... More
Surangama Guha has graduated with Honours in Sociology from Presidency College, Kolkata. She then went on to obtain a Masters degree in Sociology from Jadavpur University. She has been briefly associated as an intern with The Hindustan Times. Her... More
Susmita Paul is an emerging writer with only a couple of English poems recently published in Montauk after a long hiatus. Her sole Bengali poetry book was published by Kaurab in 2019. She is also a Zentangle inspired artist and also a mother to a... More
Swechcha Dhara Dasgupta is a high school student from Kolkata and has a hereditary passion for all things celluloid. She is a consummate commercial cinema lover and an old-school Bollywood enthusiast. She can quote Ray films from the heart and is a... More
Terence Towles Canote is the author of the book Television: Rare & Well Done. He runs the blog A Shroud of Thoughts. He has been published in Capper's Weekly, The Old Cowboy Picture Show, and other small press... More
Trinankur Banerjee is a doctoral candidate in the department of Film and Media Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He works on post-Partition Bengali comedy and its implication on cultural production, social histories, and political... More
Tumpa Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor in Sociology, Women’s Christian College, Kolkata. An alumnus of Presidency College, University of Calcutta and Jadavpur University, she completed her doctoral studies on Women in Police in India. Her areas... More
Ujjal Chakraborty is groomed in Italy on the techniques of Animation films. The author learnt the art of cinema by closely observing Satyajit Ray for many years. His book on film making, The Director's Mind, has brought for him a nation wide... More
Vasanti Limaye is a freelance content writer based in Pune. She had been a part of content team of Orient Infosolutions in 2006-2007 in Delhi. The author has a keen interest in Indian Classical Music and is a member of Music club for Senior Citizens... More
Vidyarthy Chatterjee is a veteran film critic. His book Calcutta Films: A Joshy Joseph Trilogy won the first Chidananda Dasgupta Memorial Award for the Best Writing on Cinema in... More
Born in 1950, Vijay Kumar’s ancestral roots were in Uttar Pradesh. He took early schooling in Ludhiana, Punjab; secondary school and college education in Kanpur; a post-graduate in Statistics, and much later, obtained a law degree from the Delhi... More
Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri, born 1965, is a poet and writer in Bangla. A Government servant by profession, she has also translated from French to... More
