Absence
A young woman doesn’t return home for a night. A retired professor casually leaves his home one evening but never returns. The young servant boy of a middle-class Kolkata household is found dead one morning. Delay, disappearance, death – three films made over almost a decade, but connected through their central idea, form Mrinal Sen’s […]
The Music of Ritwik Ghatak
“Why do you always sing sad songs?” Ishwar asks his sister Sita in Subarnarekha. “It is almost as if there is nothing in this world beyond pain and suffering.” When art stems from lived experiences, it must be truthful. And truth is seldom under the compulsion to have a happy ending. Cinema, for Ritwik Ghatak, […]
The Other Lens
An account of some of the most prominent photographer characters in Indian cinema
To Love the Ordinary
Remembering the world of Basu Chatterjee that celebrated the richness of simple living
My Tagore: A Lesson on Endurance
How the poet still gives us the strength to live life
