'Then, one fine morning, I returned to my first love.' 'All the top directors of the time were waiting for me.' 'In one day, I signed 12 films.' 'Prosenjit Chatterjee was back!'
'I met him in September, just days before he was hospitalised for Covid, for a documentary that his daughter was making.' 'He was in the pink of health, conversing with everyone the whole day.'
Had he not taken his final curtain call on April 23, 1992, Satyajit Ray would still, undoubtedly, have been making movies.
'I consider myself to be a 50 year old with a 16-year-young mind, ready to conquer more continents,' Dr Shuvendu Sen tells Payal Singh Mohanka.
The suave actor of the world, sometimes called the last of the Mohicans and familiar to students of cinema anywhere in the globe, acted in 14 Ray films and over 300 others, gracefully transitioning into commercial cinema in a variety of roles.
The skill, the poise, the grip on the art.'
As she turns 70 on September 18, Subhash K Jha picks five classic Shabana performances which you may have missed.
'He always seemed one of us, part of the great aspiring middle class -- his values, his simplicity, even the intellectual snobbery which he could barely hide,' observes Mousumi Sengupta.
'You can see the influence of Charulata in the way I've projected Aishwarya in Devdas.'
Hearing a public interest litigation filed by NGO Amguri Naba Nirman Samity, a high court division bench comprising Chief Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Soumitra Saikia asked the Assam government to file a detailed status report on the case.
'I was about 27 at that point in time, and I knew that if I didn't take this leap then, I wouldn't take the leap ever.'
Satyajit Ray would have been a hundred years old on May 2. To mark the legendary film-maker's birth centenary, Rediff.com bring you a treasure trove of features from our archives.
Addressing a gathering in Basirhat, Khan said: "The intellectual persons who are being paid by the state government and are not supporting this (the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens) are the dogs of Trinamool."
The Gauhati high court on Tuesday asked the Assam government to file a detailed affidavit on the police encounters that have been taking place since the Bharatiya Janata Party returned to power in the state in May 2021.
Subhash K Jha remembers the dear departed.
Soumitra Mondal and Vaishali S showed their lines at the Lakme Fashion Week. Clean, simple silhouetes, whites and haunting tracks marked the show featuring two of India's finest young designers at the Lakme Fashion Week.
Presenting stunning ethnic creations from Shruti Sancheti and Soumitra Mondal at Lakme Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2013.
Ganguly was also asked some light-hearted questions which ranged from his favourite film to his favourite actor.
Shortages of chips will impact the car market
'I don't look forward to seeing my films because this only sort of gives me a deep sense of dissatisfaction that I could have done better, and I lose my self-confidence.'
Time has now come for a pathbreaking 'Entrepreneurship Bill' pleads venture capitalist Soumitra Sharma.
The Beauty of Bengal came alive in Soumitra Mondal's 'bunon' collection while Paromita Banerjee's skilled creativity with handloom f and craft had that delicate feminine fashionable appeal At Lakme Fashion Week.
Shruti Sancheti gives her 'Nomaadistan' collection an adventurous touch while Soumitra Mondal gives traditional Indianwear a contemporary, royal look...
Kahaani actor Parambrata Chatterjee praises Soumitra Chatterjee, who has been awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke award.
Pradeep Sarkar praises Soumitra Chatterjee.
Parliament is expected to take up a motion for impeaching Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court. M R Madhavan (head of Research, PRS Legislative Research, New Delhi) explains the process of impeachment and the facts of this case.
"Her refusal to wear 'sakha and sindoor' will project her to be unmarried and/or signify her refusal to accept the marriage with the appellant (husband). Such categorical stand of the respondent (wife) points to the clear intention of the respondent that she is unwilling to continue her conjugal life with the appellant," the high court said in the judgment passed on June 19.
'I think my performance in Ray's Devi still ranks as my best,' says Sharmila Tagore.
Designer Soumitra Mondal continues to promote the cause closest to his heart on the runway -- khadi and traditional textiles. Here is a glimpse of his collection 'Frome' on Day One of the LFW.
The B.1.617 variant of SARS-CoV2, also being called a 'double mutant' or the 'Indian strain', has been found prevalent largely in Maharashtra and Delhi that have been severely hit by a devastating second wave of the pandemic.
The Cabinet has cleared a Bill to set up a government-owned development finance institution (DFI) with initial paid-up capital of Rs 20,000 crore so that it can leverage around Rs 3 trillion from the markets in a few years to provide long-term funds to infrastructure projects as well as for development needs of the country. To put it in perspective, Rs 3 trillion constitutes slightly less than 3 per cent of the Rs 111 trillion to be spent on over 7,000 projects in the National Infrastructure Pipeline from 2019-20 to 2024-25. Besides, the government will give Rs 5,000 crore as grant to the institution, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday told the media after the Cabinet meeting.
Subhash K Jha gives us the very best of Waheeda Rehman.
'Where Pratidwandi is concerned, there are very few men standing.'
The Kolkata High Court appointed two more observers in addition to Suhas Chandra Sen for the BCCI election.
The concluding part of the A to Z guide to a year that will soon become history.
Seeking to provide a quicker and value-maximising outcome for stressed MSMEs, the government has introduced a pre-packaged resolution process for such enterprises by amending the insolvency law. Now, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) can seek resolution for their stress through the pre-packaged process under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). An ordinance was promulgated to amend the IBC on April 4. Many MSMEs have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and experts opined that the latest amendment, which comes less than two weeks after the suspension of certain IBC provisions ended, is a welcome move.
After auto components major Bosch Ltd, Sundaram-Clayton, Hero MotoCorp now announce temporary production shut down
Decline in high-quality applicants from India into US business PhD courses.
"We have seen the same thing after 2014 (elections) in the name of 'award wapsi', this is just part two of that," the minister said
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