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Landscape of Exile: Individual and Cultural Alienation in Ritwik Ghatak’s Films

Ritwik Ghatak’s Partition Trilogy focused on the pervasive sense of rootlessness that afflicts those displaced from their ancestral lands and foregrounds their struggle for identity, writes Nirabari Bandyopadhyay

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Landscape of Exile: Individual and Cultural Alienation in Ritwik Ghatak’s Films

Ritwik Ghatak’s Partition Trilogy focused on the pervasive sense of rootlessness that afflicts those displaced from their ancestral lands.

The Aesthetics of Fractured Dislocation in Ritwik Ghatak’s Cinema

Despite the shadows of Partition repeatedly appearing as a motif in his Partition Trilogy, Ritwik Ghatak’s cinema transcended that to themes of dislocation.

A Shout Out for an Unclaimed Beloved

Shiladitya Sarkar analyses Tapan Sinha's journey as a chronicler of his times through the lens of two of his best-loved films Galpo Holeo Satti and Ek Doctor ki Maut

Tapan Sinha and Feature Film Management

Those who worked with Tapan Sinha learned a lot about filmmaking. Nilanjan Bhattacharya, a documentary filmmaker reminisces the working culture of Tapan Sinha’s unit.

The Impossibility of Love: Three Films of Tapan Sinha

Gayatri Chatterjee explores three films by Tapan Sinha — Jhinder Bandi, Kshudhita Pashan and Jatugriha, examining how they portray love as an impossibility.

The Cinema of Tapan Sinha — Literary Synthesis and Cinematic Demarcation

Partha Pratim Ghosh explores why Tapan Sinha was deprived of film society attention. And how this paradox is finally resolved, posthumously.

The City, Crime and Middle Class Vulnerability in Tapan Sinha’s Films

Tapan Sinha's Adalat O Ekti Meye, Atanka, and Antardhan map the idea of a middle-class community life not in its proud and fulfilled existence but in crisis and trouble.

Are We Accepting Ourselves Better Now Than Ever?

Audiences have begun embracing the mindless entertainment, reflecting a cultural shift towards an acceptance of our own true choices and ourselves.

Ganashatru – An Adaptation of An Enemy of the People

Satyajit Ray made a cinematic adaptation of Henrick Ibsen’s landmark 1882 play, ‘An Enemy of the People’ in the year 1990, titled Ganashatru. Riddhiman Basu explores the play and the film.

Satyajit, Ritwik – and the Renegade ‘Father’ Figure

In a brief critique, Amitava Nag looks at how Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak with their different socio-psychological conditionings deal with the 'father' figure in their very last film.

Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s Mando Meyer Upakhyan: A Deconstructive Reading

Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s Mando Meyer Upakhyan is a film that has many layers. Silhouette editor Amitava Nag deconstructs it from a post-modern perspective.

Tawaifs and Baijis, Wenches and Whores…

Ratnottama Sengupta's Editor's Note in Mistress of Melodies, explores the world of the "fallen woman" and how she has been looked at by writers and filmmakers.

IPR and Indian Cinema: A Scenario of Violation

When you can’t prevent it, what can be the cure? Ratnottama Sengupta wonders about IPR violations in Indian cinema. Read here stories about Indian Films that was violated Intellectual Property Rights.

Of Shared Legacies and New Sensibilities: Looking at Kannada Cinema

S Vishwanath looks closely at the colossus that was Dr Rajkumar, analysing the legacy he left for the First Family of Kannada cinema and his fans.

From BIG DATA to Small Cinema? Challenges & Opportunities of Cinema in New Media

BIG DATA is being aggressively harnessed by companies for customer targeting . With so much information, is cinema actually becoming 'small'.

Reconsidering Real and Metaphorical Gendered Spaces

An intervention into various movies which narrate issues of gender role reversals and how it counters their hierarchal idea of male construct.

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