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. Her documentary ITI (English: Regards) made its debut at the Kolkata International Film Festival and has since toured to other esteemed film festivals. She has published articles and books on media and film.

My creations

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.

Putulnacher Itikatha: A Tale of Allegory, Rupture and Symbolic Order

Suman Mukhopadhyay’s Putulnacher Itikatha explores themes of isolation, tradition versus modernity, and existential crisis. An analysis.

Why Stories Work: Indepth Analysis and Insights into the Extraordinary Power of Stories

Nirabari Bandyopadhyay reviews Somdev Chatterjee’s Why Stories Work: The Evolutionary and Cognitive Roots of the Power of Narrative.

Dwelling in Travelling: Chronicle of the Baghdadi Jews of Calcutta

Subha Das Mollick’s documentary Dwelling in Travelling explores the story of the Jewish community in Kolkata. A Silhouette review by Nirabari Bandopadhyay.