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Category: Homage

Ritwik Ghatak

November 4, 2022November 9, 2022By Joy Bimal Roy 0 Comments

We have had countless guests in Godiwala Bungalow but the memory of one stands out above the rest. Ritwik Ghatak Sometime in the early ’70s a Bengali gentleman landed up unannounced at home. He looked like he had seen better days. His entire demeanour was one of defeat, someone at the end of his tether. […]

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Protima Bedi — ultimate enfant terrible, model, Odissi dancer, sanyasi

October 12, 2022November 9, 2022By Joy Bimal Roy 0 Comments

Every Bombayite of our generation had heard of Protima Gupta. She was the ultimate enfant terrible. People spoke in hushed whispers about her streaking through Samovar restaurant. For those who came in late streaking was big in the ’70s in the west. It meant running through a public place stark naked usually as a protest […]

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Vivien Leigh — the Scorn that Won the World

November 5, 2021February 1, 2022By Darshana Goswami 0 Comments

Vivien Leigh — the Scorn that Won the World “Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, […]

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Ritwik Ghatak and the Lost Art of Self-Destruction

November 4, 2021February 1, 2022By Amborish Roychoudhury Ritwik Ghatak 0 Comments

This was around 1955. Ritwik Ghatak was in Bombay, sharing his living quarters with Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Producer Shashadhar Mukherjee had him employed at Filmistan Studios, writing stories and scripts for them. Ritwik had just been married to Surama Bhattacharjee. He wrote to his young bride, who was working at a school in the northeastern hill […]

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Naseeruddin Shah: The Angel of Chaos

July 21, 2021July 25, 2021By Amborish Roychoudhury 0 Comments

Have you ever had the opportunity to observe an actor observing himself? Naseeruddin Shah: The Angel of Chaos Early Noughties, Mumbai. In a sultry Mumbai studio, poet extraordinaire Gulzar’s face flickers on a mounted screen. He’s paying a tribute to Naseeruddin Shah, today’s guest on the sets of Jeena Isi ka Naam Hai, one of […]

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A daughter remembers

July 12, 2021July 25, 2021By Aparajita Sinha 0 Comments

To my sorrow I never really got to know my father. I sometimes feel that if he had lived longer, perhaps my brother, Joy Bimal Roy, or I could have worked with him and learnt the craft in a way that no school or textbook can teach. But my father did not really like us visiting […]

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Meena Kumari

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021By Darshana Goswami Bimal Roy 0 Comments

It has been almost half a century since Meena Kumari (1933- 1972) passed away, and yet her evocative silver screen images come back again and again to stir our emotions. In death, as in life, she remains the creator of many stories, exactly resembling Princess Scheherazade of the Arabian Nights. The Arabian Princess wove endless […]

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Kaifi Azmi — the Poet of Love, Revolution & Regeneration

January 14, 2021January 29, 2021By Darshana Goswami 0 Comments

Kaifi Azmi — the Poet of Love, Revolution and Regeneration Aaj ki raat bahut garm hava chalti hai Aaj ki raat na footpath pe niind aa.egi Sab uTho, main bhi uThun tum bhi uTho, tum bhi uTho Koi khiDki isi divar men khul ja.egi   (A sultry wind blows tonight, Sleep won’t visit the footpath […]

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Saeed Jaffrey — the Transcultural Beacon

January 8, 2021January 29, 2021By Darshana Goswami 0 Comments

Saeed Jaffrey — the Transcultural Beacon “I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy’d Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea.” -Alfred Tennyson, ‘Ulysses’   Literally in […]

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Mani Kaul — Prophet of Pure Cinema

December 25, 2020December 27, 2020By Gautam Kaul 0 Comments

In the long history of Indian cinema there have been very few film directors who could be called as being possessed of genius minds. Dada Sahib Phalke was in that realm. He founded the film industry in India, stamping his image in all departments of film making. Satyajit Ray was another person. SS Vasan, in […]

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  1. Aditya Modak
  2. Amartya Acharya
  3. Amborish
  4. Amitava Nag
  5. Amit Khanna
  6. Ananya Nandan
  7. Anirban Lahiri
  8. Aparajita Sinha
  9. Arnab K Middya
  10. Babu Subramanian
  11. Daniela Rogobete
  12. Darshana Goswami
  13. Dnyanesh Moghe
  14. Divya Mehta
  15. Devdutt Trivedi
  16. Dipsikha Bhagawati
  17. Gautam Kaul
  18. Joy Bimal Roy
  19. Manoj Barpujari
  20. MK Raghavendra
  21. Monita Borgohain
  22. Mukhta Chand
  23. Oorvazi Irani
  24. Parthajit Baruah
  25. Premchand
  26. Priyanka Purthy
  27. Ratnottama Sengupta
  28. RK Bidur Singh
  29. Sathya Saran
  30. Saurabh Turakhia
  31. Sayantan Dutta
  32. S Viswanath
  33. Utpal Datta
  34. Vanessa Lien Bianci

Book Chapters

Preface — Words. Sounds. Images: A History of Media and Entertainment in India by Amit Khanna


Understanding a twin subgenre: new- and mixed-gen cinema of Malayalam by Christopher Dalton

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