'I studied with Twinkle Khanna'

We asked readers to tell us if they had grown up or studied with movie or television celebrities. And we got a great response! Sharing his memories is Navin Shenoy, who was in the same school as......

Counterview: Parineeta, just a music video

First, the baggage. The only Sarat Chandra Chatterjee works I have read are Ramer Sumoti-- about how a boy who is a complete nuisance becomes responsible, a story my mother insisted I read-- and......

Parineeta is a must watch

Parineeta is a beautiful story, beautifully told. It approximates what most of us expect, and increasingly yearn for in vain, in our cinematic experience. When a film has a literary classic as its......

The different faces of Parineeta

Like Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Devdas, his other book Parineeta has also been filmed in Hindi thrice. And both the novels have shared the same director for one of its versions-- Bimal Roy made......