The relationship between leftist politics in Bengal and its cinema was layered and uneasy, mirroring the left’s own history ...
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Mamata's Bangla film diktat and the Devdas syndrome
It was Assamese filmmaker Pramathesh Chandra Barua who turned Sarat Chandra's Devdas into a movie in 1935 and made the tragic hero a legend. The Bengali film in which Barua played the eponymous hero ...
Kolkata: By 26, Binodini Dasi had played 90 roles in 80 plays and helped build Kolkata’s Star Theatre — only to be cast out by the men who owed her their success. Eighty-three years after her death, ...
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