'A great loss for the fraternity. Your work will be missed & cherished.'
Mithun Chakraborthy on Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and working in his Tahader Katha, for which he won his second National Award.
The CPI-M leader was the chief minister of the state from 2000 to 2011.
Former West Bengal chief minister and a front-ranking Marxist leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will go down in the country's history as a pragmatic communist who kept aside his ideological convictions to woo capital for the industrialisation of his state.
"So many locals, prilgrims, tourists and travellers being stranded is very disturbing," says the actor, who is thinking of ways to help the people of Uttarakhand.
'I have the qualification every actor would love to have: A Buddhadeb actor.'
Madhur Bhandarkar's Page 3 wins Best Film award.
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The award for best director went to Aparna Sen for Mr and Mrs Iyer, while Buddhadeb Dasgupta's Mondo Meyer Upakhyan was adjudged best film
'God can you get work, but once you get it, you have to do it with honesty and put your 100 percent into it.'
Biman Basu, the senior-most Marxist leader in the country, pays homage to a comrade he has known and admired since the 1980s.
Mithun Chakraborty started from scratch in bit roles and had no Godfather backing him. Yet, remarkably, his career now straddles six decades and he continues to win acclaim, observes Dinesh Raheja.
'That he found it worth his while to repeat me within a year said something about my abilities as actor.'
'Satyajit Ray is most relevant even today.'
'Buddhada became such a confidante, friend, philosopher and guide in my life.'
'Directors like Buddhada don't tell you, "Do this, do that." They just guide you and you get it right.'
Chakraborty, an ardent trade unionist and a former Rajya Sabha member, was admitted to the hospital after he tested positive for COVID-19 on July 30.
The Left Front camp seems shellshocked as news of its heavyweights Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Gautam Deb, Ashim Dasgupta trailing in their respective constituencies poured in
A eight-member central team, headed by Joint Secretary in Union Agriculture Ministry E K Majhi, will visit drought-hit districts of West Bengal on Wednesday.
The Padma Bhushan was conferred on 17 personalities including N Chandrasekharan, chairman of Tata Sons, Krishna and Suchita Ella of Bharat Biotech, Cyrus Poonawalla, Satya Nadella, chairman of Microsoft, Sunder Pichai, chairman of Google.
Of all the Indian films screened in Toronto, three stood out for Aseem Chhabra -- A Death in the Gunj, Mostly Sunny and An Insignificant Man.
'The way the winners react and the speeches they deliver.' 'That is where the fun happens, when the actors and other winners let down their guard, challenge the system, talk about issues that should matter to us,' says Aseem Chhabra.
Ironically, the BJP, which seeks to unseat the TMC from power, has taken a leaf out of Mamata Banerjee's strategy of soliciting tinsel town's support towards causes and fielding actors in elections.
In 2006-07, TCS had employed 7,000 people in the eastern states.
Then chief minister Jyoti Basu once told an industrialist that capitalists were class enemies and he should expect no sympathy.
Pavan Malhotra, one of our finest actors, shows us another side of Bollywood.
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