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Madhabi Mukherjee
Madhabi Chakraborty (née Mukherjee) is an Indian actress. Considered to be one of the greatest actresses of Bengali cinema, she has acted in some of the most critically acclaimed films in Bengali cinema. She won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Bengali film ''Dibratrir Kabya''. She made her on-screen debut in Premendra Mitra's ''Kankantola Light Railway'' (1950). Her first leading role came with Tapan Sinha's ''Tonsil'' (1956). Her name was later changed into "Madhabi" by Mrinal Sen in his ''Baishe Sraban'' (1960). Early life Her mother raised her daughters Madhabi and Manjari in Kolkata, in what was then Bengal, India. As a young girl, she became involved in the theater. She worked on stage with doyens such as Sisir Bhaduri, Ahindra Choudhury, Nirmalendu Lahiri and Chhabi Biswas. Some of the plays she acted in included ''Naa'' and ''Kalarah''. She made her film debut as a child artist in Premendra Mitra's ''Dui beaee''. Early stage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charulata
''Charulata'' (, ; also known as ''The Lonely Wife'') is a 1964 Indian drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray. Based on Rabindranath Tagore's novella '' Nastanirh'', it stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, and Shailen Mukherjee. The film is widely regarded as one of Ray’s finest works, and is frequently included in lists of the greatest films ever made. Both the opening and closing scenes of the film have received critical acclaim. The first scene, with minimal dialogue, depicts Charu’s loneliness as she observes the outside world through binoculars. In the final scene, as Charu and her husband are about to hold hands, the screen freezes—a technique praised as a masterful use of the freeze frame in cinema. Plot In Calcutta in 1879, at the height of the Bengali Renaissance under British rule, Charulata is the intelligent and artistic wife of Bhupati, an upper-class Bengali intellectual who edits and publishes a small political newspaper. Despite his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chhabi Biswas
Chhabi Biswas (''Chabi Biśbās''; 13 July 1900 – 11 June 1962) was an Indian actor, primarily known for his performances in Tapan Sinha's '' Kabuliwala'' and Satyajit Ray's films '' Jalsaghar'' (''The Music Room'', 1958), ''Devi'' (''The Goddess'', 1960) and '' Kanchenjungha'' (1962). He is best remembered for his numerous roles as the quintessential aristocratic patriarch, and was himself the scion of a rich and cultured North Kolkata family. He was born on 12 July 1900. His father, Bhupatinath Biswas, was well known for his charitable works. His first name was Sachindranath, but his mother nicknamed her handsome son Chhabi (a beautiful picture!) and the name stuck throughout his life and career. His portrayal of the formidable father figure, though often typecast, yet was powerful and convincing enough to earn both popular and critical accolades. That portrayal was culturally significant, too as in the British Raj, enlightened Bengali used to combined both the hoary trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soumitra Chatterjee
Soumitra Chatterjee (also spelt as Chattopadhyay; ; 19 January 193515 November 2020) was an Indian film actor, play-director, playwright, writer, thespian and poet. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema. He is best known for his collaborations with director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films. Starting with his debut film, '' Apur Sansar'' (The World of Apu, 1959), the third part of ''The Apu Trilogy'', as adult Apu, he went on to work in several films with Ray, including '' Abhijan'' (The Expedition, 1962), '' Charulata'' (1964), '' Kapurush'' (1965), '' Aranyer Din Ratri'' (Days and Nights in the Forest, 1969), '' Ashani Sanket'' (Distant Thunder, 1973), '' Sonar Kella'' (The Fortress of Gold, 1974) and '' Joi Baba Felunath'' (The Elephant God, 1978) as Feluda, '' Hirak Rajar Deshe'' (1980), '' Ghare Baire'' (The Home and The World, 1984), Shakha Proshakha (1990) and '' Ganashatru'' (Enemy of the Peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kapurush
''Kapurush'' (), English title ''The Coward'', is a 1965 Indian drama film directed by Satyajit Ray. Plot Amitabha Ray is a Calcutta-based scriptwriter who is driving around in the country to collect material for a film. His vehicle breaks down in a small town. A tea planter, Bimal Gupta, offers hospitality for the night, and Amitabha accepts. At Gupta's house, he is introduced to his wife Karuna. Amitabha is shocked to find her to be the girl he once loved and had let down during their student days. Unaware of their past relationship, Gupta entertains Amitabha and gets drunk. Unable to sleep, Amitabha remembers the last time he saw Karuna. Forced to leave town with her uncle who did not approve of the relationship, Karuna came to see Amitabha, offering to sacrifice her comfortable life and educational plans to marry him. Amitabha, however, proved to be a coward, unwilling to make such a commitment. Back in the present, he asks for sleeping pills from Karuna, and asks if she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghare Baire (film)
''Ghare Baire'' () is a 1984 Indian Bengali language, Bengali-language romantic drama film directed and written by Satyajit Ray. The film is based on Rabindranath Tagore's novel The Home and the World, of the same name, and stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Swatilekha Sengupta, Swatilekha Chatterjee and Jennifer Kendal. The film has a complex portrayal of several themes including nationalism, women emancipation, spiritual and materialistic take on life, tradition versus modernism, and others. Ray prepared a script for it in the 1940s, long before he made his first film ''Pather Panchali''. The film was in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. At the 32nd National Film Awards, it won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali. Plot The story is set in 1907 on the estate of the rich and influential Bengalis, Bengali zamindar, noble Nikhilesh "Nikhil" Choudhary (Victor Banerjee) in Sukhsayar. In the chaotic aftermath of George Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nashtanir
''Nastanirh'' (also ''Nashtanir''; Bengali: নষ্টনীড়, ''Nôshţoniŗh''; English: 'The Broken Nest') is a 1901 Bengali novella by Rabindranath Tagore. It is the basis for the noted 1964 film ''Charulata'', by Satyajit Ray. Background According to Mary Lago in the introduction to the English translation of ''Nashtanir'' (translated by Lago and Supriya Sen), the novella was released three times: in 1901 in serial format, in 1909 as part of a special short story collection, and in 1926 as part of Tagore's standard collection of fiction (p. 9). Scholarship indicates that this story might have been based upon the relationship between Tagore's elder brother Jyotirindranath; his brother's wife, Kadambari Devi (who committed suicide shortly after Tagore's marriage); and Tagore (who spent a great deal of time with Kadambari, reading and writing poetry).Ketaki Kushari Dyson, trans., Rabindranath Tagore, ''I Won't Let You Go: Selected Poems'' (London: Penguin, 2011), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Thakur (; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance. He reshaped Bengali literature and Music of Bengal, music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of ''Gitanjali.'' In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist to win the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; where his elegant prose and magical poetry were widely popular in the Indian subcontinent. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by the sobri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert ( ; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American Film criticism, film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter and author. He wrote for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' from 1967 until his death in 2013. Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing style and critical views informed by values of populism and humanism. Writing in a prose style intended to be entertaining and direct, he made sophisticated cinematic and analytical ideas more accessible to non-specialist audiences. Ebert endorsed foreign and independent films he believed would be appreciated by mainstream viewers, championing filmmakers like Werner Herzog, Errol Morris and Spike Lee, as well as Martin Scorsese, whose first published review he wrote. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Neil Steinberg of the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' said Ebert "was without question the nation's most prominent and influential film critic," and Kenne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anil Chatterjee
Anil Chatterjee (also Chattopadhyay, ; 25 October 1929 – 17 March 1996) was an Indian actor in the Bengali cinema during the early fifties through the mid-nineties and is mostly remembered as a character actor. He acted or performed in about 150 movies, including a few in Hindi. Career Born at Balagarh, in Hooghly, India, he hailed from Calcutta, West Bengal, India, and graduated from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata. Prior to that, he completed his schooling from Delhi, having stood first in entire the North India, in the Senior Cambridge Examinations. In his college days, he became associated with Utpal Dutt and acted in a number of plays. He was also a Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, having won the by-election from the erstwhile Chowringhee Assembly Constituency as a Left Front supported Independent candidate. Chatterjee played different shades, though mostly as a character actor, as well as in leading roles and at times as an antagonist, despite the li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, author, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligraphy, calligrapher, and composer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential film directors in the history of cinema. He is celebrated for works including ''The Apu Trilogy'' (1955–1959), Jalsaghar, ''The Music Room'' (1958), Mahanagar, ''The Big City'' (1963)'', Charulata'' (1964), and the ''Goopy–Bagha'' trilogy (1969–1992). Ray was born in Calcutta to author Sukumar Ray and Suprabha Ray. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent film, independent film-making after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealism, Italian neorealist film ''Bicycle Thieves'' (1948) during a visit to London. Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries, and short subject, shorts. Ray's first film, (1955), won eleven international ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komal Gandhar
''Komal Gandhar'' ( ''Kōmal Gāndhār''), also known as ''A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale'', is a 1961 Bengali film written and directed by legendary film maker Ritwik Ghatak. The title refers to the Hindustani equivalent of " E-flat". It was part of the trilogy composed of '' Meghe Dhaka Tara'' (1960), Komal Gandhar and '' Subarnarekha'' (1962), all dealing with the aftermath of the Partition of India in 1947 and the refugees coping with it, though this was the most optimistic film of his oeuvre. The film explores three themes juxtaposed in the narrative: the dilemma of Anusuya, the lead character, the divided leadership of IPTA, and the fallout from the partition of India. Overview The film title was taken from the line of a poemBook: Punascha, poem: Komal–Gandhar; by Rabindranath Tagore that meant a ''sur'' or note, E-flat. As in other films by Ghatak, music plays a pivotal role in the movie. Through the microcosmic perspectivising of a group of devoted and uncompromisin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960 Film)
''Meghe Dhaka Tara'' ( ''Mēghē Ḍhākā Tārā'', lit. ''The Cloud-Capped Star'') is a 1960 film written and directed by Ritwik Ghatak, based on a social novel by Shaktipada Rajguru with the same title. It stars Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gita Dey, Bijon Bhattacharya, Niranjan Roy, and Gyanesh Mukherjee. It was part of a trilogy consisting of ''Meghe Dhaka Tara'' (1960), ''Komal Gandhar'' (1961), and '' Subarnarekha'' (1962), all dealing with the aftermath of the Partition of Bengal during the Partition of India in 1947 and the refugees coping with it. Plot outline The film revolves around Nita (played by Supriya Choudhury), a young girl who lives with her family, refugees from East Pakistan, in the suburbs of Calcutta. Nita is a self-sacrificing person who is constantly exploited by everyone around her, even her own family, who take her goodness for granted. Her father, who got an accident, is unable to make a living. Her elder brother Shankar (played by Anil C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
