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Bengali actor Dev’s film ‘Bagha Jatin’, based on the legendary freedom fighter of the same name, has received much acclaim from audiences in regards to how it has handled its subject. Going behind-the-scenes, Dev was completely uncompromising in regards to both his capacity as an actor and producer.

Dev, talking about the portrayal said in Bangla: “The subject of ‘Bagha Jatin’ was something I was very personally involved in. He is a legend of Bengal and it was one of my toughest roles ever.”

He further mentioned: “But I was so deeply engrossed in the topic, I wanted to make it as authentic and true to history as I could. As such, my attempt on this was completely uncompromising, because this is a very heavy topic to handle, as well as something that I felt personally attached to.”

Actress Sudeepa Chakraborty, who portrayed Bagha Jatin’s elder sister Binodbala,...

Bengali actor Dev’s film ‘Bagha Jatin’, based on the legendary freedom fighter of the same name, has received much acclaim from audiences in regards to how it has handled its subject. Going behind-the-scenes, Dev was completely uncompromising in regards to both his capacity as an actor and producer.

Dev, talking about the portrayal said in Bangla: “The subject of ‘Bagha Jatin’ was something I was very personally involved in. He is a legend of Bengal and it was one of my toughest roles ever.”

He further mentioned: “But I was so deeply engrossed in the topic, I wanted to make it as authentic and true to history as I could. As such, my attempt on this was completely uncompromising, because this is a very heavy topic to handle, as well as something that I felt personally attached to.”

Actress Sudeepa Chakraborty, who portrayed Bagha Jatin’s elder sister Binodbala,...

Apart from South Indian cinema, Bengali cinema too seems to be going pan-Indian as Bengali cinema superstar Dev’s much anticipated film, the biopic ‘Bagha Jatin’ based on the revolutionary freedom fighter has released its Hindi trailer. Featuring some state-of-the-art quality production, the trailer is visually stunning and has some very emotional and well written dialogues. In more ways than one, ‘Bagha Jatin’ seems to have a very identical similarity with the Telugu blockbuster film ‘Rrr’ which is also combined with some flavour of the Sunny Deol-starrer-blockbuster film ‘Gadar 2’.

The trailer kicks off with Bagha Jatin’ son telling him that he too wants to kill a tiger just like his father did. However, smiling at him, the fighter says that it was a mistake to do so and he had little choice as it is wrong to kill an animal.

The trailer then shows several scenes ranging from personal family drama to gathering partners,...

Apart from South Indian cinema, Bengali cinema too seems to be going pan-Indian as Bengali cinema superstar Dev’s much anticipated film, the biopic ‘Bagha Jatin’ based on the revolutionary freedom fighter has released its Hindi trailer. Featuring some state-of-the-art quality production, the trailer is visually stunning and has some very emotional and well written dialogues. In more ways than one, ‘Bagha Jatin’ seems to have a very identical similarity with the Telugu blockbuster film ‘Rrr’ which is also combined with some flavour of the Sunny Deol-starrer-blockbuster film ‘Gadar 2’.

The trailer kicks off with Bagha Jatin’ son telling him that he too wants to kill a tiger just like his father did. However, smiling at him, the fighter says that it was a mistake to do so and he had little choice as it is wrong to kill an animal.

The trailer then shows several scenes ranging from personal family drama to gathering partners,...

Living in the West, it occasionally becomes easy to forget that in various corners of the world, people are living very different and essentially much worse lives. Suman Ghosh focuses on a family that survives by picking up garbage in “The Scavenger of Dreams”, highlighting this rather ignored type of life in India.

The Scavenger of Dreams is screening at Busan International Film Festival

Birju and Shona live in the slums with their daughter Muni. Together they navigate Kolkata’s affluent neighborhoods every morning, collecting trash from the rich houses, on a handcart. Expectedly, they make a meager living, and the lockdown that was imposed the previous years did not make anyone’s life easier, also due to Muni not being able to attend school. Their only leisure seems to be making up stories out of the discarded materials they bring home every night, along with their daughter. Things get...

After 2011’s “Nobel Thief,” 2012’s “Uncle Shyamal Turns off the Lights,” 2015’s “Peace Haven,” 2016’s “Mi Amor” and 2019’s “Aadhaar,” Indian filmmaker Suman Ghosh returns again to the Busan International Film Festival.

“The Scavenger of Dreams” has its world premiere in the ‘A Window On Asian Cinema’ strand. A treatise on social inequality, the film follows Birju and Shona, trash collectors who live in a Kolkata slum with their young daughter. They scour the city’s affluent areas by day for garbage and their experiences become the grist of stories for their daughter by night.

Like “Aadhaar,” “The Scavenger of Dreams,” then called “The Waste Collector,” was also at Busan’s Asian Project Market, where it gained significant exposure. The germ of the film was from a New York Times article about waste collectors that Ghosh read years ago that stayed with him.

“The reason I wanted to make the...

by Atanu Roy

“I’m Irrfan, just Irrfan. I’ve taken out Khan from my name. I don’t want to be known by my religion, surname or lineage.” – Irrfan

It’s untimely, it’s hurting me, still, his words resonate within me, “The day I become conventional, something inside me will die.” And today, I’ll not make this obituary conventional for sure. Dedicating my pure love and respect for the magician called Irrfan, I will not allow something inside me to die.

Irrfan somehow gave birth to a parallel Bollywood, which started growing with him. Like in every field, cinema too has an invisible guard wall. However, when you start running through it, often you get hurt, and on the rarest of occasions, you end up victorious. Irrfan represented that rarest species who end up with a smile and with no scars on their body of work. One...

The New York Indian Film Festival (Nyiff) announced the full lineup last night for their 16th year of celebrating independent, art house, alternate, and diaspora films from/about/connected to the Indian subcontinent (May 7 – May 14). Dedicated to bringing these films to a New York audience, the festival will feature 40 screenings (35 narrative, 5 documentary) –all seen for the first time in New York City. In addition, the festival will also feature five programs of short films.

The festival highlights various cinemas of India’s different regions. All the films are subtitled in English and some of the languages this year include Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telegu, Assamese, Haryanavi and Urdu. This year’s festival will feature a couple of sidebars –Nfdc restored first films of filmmakers and a three-generations sidebar, films of Bimal Roy, Basu Bhattacharya and Aditya Bhattacharya.

The festival’s film lineup includes 2016 National Award winners A Far Afternoon,...