Remembering Sonali Dasgupta-Rossellini

Rinki Roy Bhattacharya pays tribute to her aunt Sonali Dasgupta, who eloped with filmmaker Roberto Rossellini in 1956, and then made a life in Europe. She deserves to be celebrated. Her name was......

If half the world's population is miserable, can the other half rejoice?

Rinki Roy Bhattacharya’s take on International Women’s Day. “The birth of a daughter was not a source of anxiety during the vedic period, in the post vedic phase, becomes a......

'My Father Bimal Roy's Time Has Come'

'When you are a pioneer and someone who's put on a pedestal, but then the pedestal gets dusty, people don't look at the statue anymore.''They would say, 'Yes, yes, of course I know Bimal Roy. He......

'Manna Dey was too humble for the glamorous Bollywood'

Rinki Roy Bhattacharya, daughter of acclaimed filmmaker Bimal Roy, feels that Manna Dey never received the popularity Kishore Kumar or Mohammad Rafi had, as he was too humble for......

The brilliance of Sombhu Mitra, who directed Jaagte Raho

Writer-filmmaker Rinki Roy Bhattacharya, daughter of celebrated filmmaker Bimal Roy, met Bengali theatre stalwart Sombhu Mitra and his wife Tripti as a teenager and was hugely impressed by their......

'Cinematic works like Bimal Roy's are national treasures'

Minutes before the inauguration of the Bimal Roy exhibition Life and Times of Bimal Roy on July 7 at the prestigious Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, in south Mumbai, a deluge......