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Kantatar
''Kantatar'' ( bn, কাঁটাতার, Barbed Wire) is a 2005 Bengali language, Bengali film directed by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay, and featuring Sreelekha Mitra, Sudip Mukherjee, Rudranil Ghosh. It received Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema, NETPAC Award at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema, 2007 for its deceptively simple style with which the complex situation of people trapped in a state of permanent displacement is exposed. Plot Kantatar (Barbed Wire) revolves around the journey of Sudha (Sreelekha Mitra), a socio-political-love drama, Kantatar centers on an illegal immigrant's search for identity and her effort to survive sake and in search of an identity, moves from one man to another and from one religion to another. The sudden threat of cross border terrorism entirely changes the socio-political situation in a remote village close to the frontier, the army rolls into town, and the drastic changes take their toll on inter-personal relationshi ...
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Sreelekha Mitra
Sreelekha Mitra (Bengali language, Bengali: শ্রীলেখা মিত্র) is an Indian actress who is known for her work in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. Winner of a Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards, BFJA Award and an Anandalok Puraskar, Anandalok Award, Mitra is best known for her roles in films such as ''Hothat Brishti'' (1998), ''Kantatar'' (2006), ''Aschorjo Prodip'' (2013), ''Swade Ahlade'' (2015), ''Choukath'' (2015) and ''Rainbow Jelly'' (2018). Her first acting assignment was ''Balikar Prem'', a Bengali TV series directed by Dulal Lahiri. She rose to prominence for her role as Nabanita in the 1996 Bengali TV series ''Trishna'' directed by Anindya Sarkar. After she appeared in a host of films, her breakthrough role came with Basu Chatterjee's ''Hothat Brishti'' (1998) which was a major success at the box office. Despite the success of the film, Mitra never attained any significant elevation in her career which she claimed to be an undesirab ...
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Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
Bappaditya Bandopadhyay or Bappaditya Banerjee ( bn, বাপ্পাদিত্য ব্যানার্জী; 28 August 1970 – 7 November 2015) was an Indian film director and poet. Career Bandopadhyay was the recipient of the Most Promising Director award for the year 2003, by the BFJA (Bengal Film Journalists' Association). His second feature film ''Silpantar'' (Colours of Hunger) was premiered at the Sofia International Film Festival, Bulgaria. The film was selected in the competitive section of the International Film Festival Bratislava in 2003. It was the only Indian film other than ''Devdas'' selected at the 2003 Helsinki International Film Festival. Debashree Roy won the Kalakar Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film. Bappaditya Bandopadhyay’s first feature film '' Sampradan'' (The Offering of the Daughter) was selected in the competitive section of the 6th Dhaka International Film Festival, 2000. The film won three major awards in the cat ...
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Rudranil Ghosh
Rudranil Ghosh is an Indian actor who works primarily in Bengali films. Education Rudranil Ghosh completed his early education at Santragachi Kedarnath Institution, Howrah under West Bengal State Board. He graduated from the Narasinha Dutt College, which is affiliated with the University of Calcutta, in 1995. Political career He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party and contested Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election against AITC leader Sovandeb Chatterjee and lost by a margin of 28,719 votes. Filmography Awards * 2007: BFJA - Best Supporting Actor Award for both ''Kantatar'' and ''Refugee'' References External links * , - ! colspan="3" style="background: #DAA520;" , BFJA Awards Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards commonly referred as BFJA Awards, is given by The Bengal Film Journalists' Association. The BFJA is the oldest association of film critics in India, founded in 1937 to serve the developing ...
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Bappaditya Bandopadhyay or Bappaditya Banerjee ( bn, বাপ্পাদিত্য ব্যানার্জী; 28 August 1970 – 7 November 2015) was an Indian film director and poet. Career Bandopadhyay was the recipient of the Most Promising Director award for the year 2003, by the BFJA (Bengal Film Journalists' Association). His second feature film ''Silpantar'' (Colours of Hunger) was premiered at the Sofia International Film Festival, Bulgaria. The film was selected in the competitive section of the International Film Festival Bratislava in 2003. It was the only Indian film other than ''Devdas'' selected at the 2003 Helsinki International Film Festival. Debashree Roy won the Kalakar Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film. Bappaditya Bandopadhyay’s first feature film '' Sampradan'' (The Offering of the Daughter) was selected in the competitive section of the 6th Dhaka International Film Festival, 2000. The film won three major awards in the cat ...
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Network For The Promotion Of Asian Cinema
The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) is a worldwide organization of 29 member countries. It was created as the result of a conference on Asian cinema organized by Cinemaya, the Asian Film Quarterly, in New Delhi in 1990 at the instance and with the support of UNESCO, Paris. Headquartered in Singapore, the NETPAC is a pan-Asian film cultural organization involving critics, filmmakers, festival organizers and curators, distributors and exhibitors, as well as film educators. It is considered a leading authority on Asian cinema. Since 1990, it has programmed Asian sections of international film festivals, introduced filmmakers from Asia to the world, brought out a compendium of the existing film infrastructure in different Asian countries, organized seminars and conferences and instituted an award for the Best Asian Film at festivals like Singapore, Busan, Jeonju, Kerala, Kazakhstan and Osian's Cinefan among those in Asia; Berlin, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Rotterdam, Vesou ...
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Anandalok Awards
Anandalok Puraskar or Anandalok Awards ceremony is an award ceremony for Bengali film in India. The '' Anandalok'', only film magazine in Bengali language, published from Ananda Publishers and ''Ananda Bazar Patrika'' presents this award (Puraskar). The magazine was started on 25 January 1975 and the awards ceremony was started in 1998. Awards * Best Films *Best Director * Best Actor *Best Actress * Best Supporting Actor * Best Supporting Actress * Best Screenplay * Best Cinematographer * Best Art Director * Best Editor * Best Music Director * Best Lyricist * Best Male Playback * Best Female Playback * Best Make Up Man * Most Promising Director * Most Promising Actor * Most Promising Actress * Best Action Hero Special awards Hindi section * Anandalok Award for Best Actor (Hindi) * Anandalok Award for Best Actress (Hindi) * Anandalok Award for Best Film (Hindi) Previous awards 2010 * Best Film – Le Chakka Srijan arts * Best Director – Raj Chakraborty for Le chakka * Be ...
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Shankar Debnath
Shankar may refer to: People *Shankar (name), including a list of people with the name * Sankar (writer) (Mani Shankar Mukherjee), Bengali writer *L. Shankar, Indian violinist *S. Shankar, Indian film director commonly credited as Shankar *Sankar (writer & director), Indian film director, screenwriter, short story writer, and Novelist from Kerala. *Shankar (actor) (Shankar Panicker, born 1960), Indian film actor and director popularly known as Shankar *Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, an Indian musical trio which composes music for film soundtracks Fictional * Shankar Roy Chowdhury, protagonist of the ''Chander Pahar'' franchise Places *Shankar, Jalandhar, a village located in Jallandhar, Punjab, India *Shankar, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran See also *Shankar's Virus, a computer virus that infects Word documents *Shankar's International Dolls Museum, New Delhi *''Shankar's Weekly'', a magazine founded by K. Shankar Pillai * Shankar Party unofficial name give ...
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Bengali-language Indian Films
Bengali ( ), generally known by its endonym Bangla (, ), is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia. It is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and the second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India. With approximately 300 million native speakers and another 37 million as second language speakers, Bengali is the fifth most-spoken native language and the seventh most spoken language by total number of speakers in the world. Bengali is the fifth most spoken Indo-European language. Bengali is the official and national language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. Within India, Bengali is the official language of the states of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of Assam. It is also a second official language of the Indian state of Jharkhand since September 2011. It is the most widely spoken language in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands ...
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2005 Films
2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy stated on his website, "Despite films like “Crash,” which deals with racism in contemporary America, and geopolitical exposes like ''Syriana'' and ''Munich'', the 2005 movie year may go down in film history as the year of sexual diversity." He went on to emphasize, "It's hard to recall a year in which sex, sexuality, and gender have featured so prominently in American films, both mainstream Hollywood and independent cinema. I am deliberately using the concepts of sexual diversity and sexual orientation, rather than gay-themed movies, because the rather new phenomenon goes beyond homosexuality or lesbianism. For decades, American culture has been both puritanical and hypocritical as far as sexual matters are con ...
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Rana Dasgupta
Rana Dasgupta (born 5 November 1971 in Canterbury, England) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He grew up in Cambridge, England, and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and, as a Fulbright Scholar, the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 2010 ''The Daily Telegraph'' called him one of Britain's best novelists under 40. In 2014 ''Le Monde'' named him one of 70 people who are making the world of tomorrow. Among the prizes won by Dasgupta's works are the Commonwealth Prize and the Ryszard Kapuściński Award. Dasgupta is a former Literary Director of the JCB Prize for Literature. Career Dasgupta's first novel, '' Tokyo Cancelled'' (HarperCollins, 2005), was an examination of the forces and experiences of globalisation. Billed as a modern-day ''Canterbury Tales'', it is about thirteen passengers stuck overnight in an airport who tell thirteen stories from different cities in the world, stories that resemble contempora ...
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BFJA Awards
Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards commonly referred as BFJA Awards, is given by The Bengal Film Journalists' Association. The BFJA is the oldest association of film critics in India, founded in 1937 to serve the developing film journalism and film industry. Overview Members of the association are drawn from the film section of the entire press of West Bengal composed of dailies, periodicals and film journals in various languages published from Kolkata. Film correspondents and critics working for any newspaper or periodicals published outside Bengal having their base in Kolkata were also eligible to be members of this association. The association was the first to institute awards in an endeavor to promote and encourage the production of better films, when in 1938, a year after its inception, the 1st Motion Picture Congress was held in Faridpur (now in Bangladesh). Representatives of the association played a vital role in its deliberations. In 1952 when India staged the Fi ...
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The Telegraph (Kolkata)
''The Telegraph'' is an Indian English daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Kolkata since 7 July 1982. It is published by the ABP Group and the newspaper competes with ''The Times of India''. The newspaper is the eighth most-widely read English language newspaper in India as per ''Indian Readership Survey'' (IRS) 2019. ''The Telegraph'' has three editions Kolkata, South Bengal and North Bengal. History ''The Telegraph'' was founded on 7 July 1982. The design director of London's ''The Sunday Times'', Edwin Taylor, designed the newspaper and provided a standard in design and editing. In 31 years, it has become the largest-circulation English daily in the eastern region published from Kolkata. In 1982, M. J. Akbar used to edit and design the daily newspaper; thus it had a major impact on newspaper journalism in India. ''The Telegraph'' is published by media group Ananda Publishers closely associated with ABP Pvt. Ltd; the group also published ''Anandabazar Pa ...
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