Amitav Ghosh’s Ghost-Eye carries echoes of Satyajit Ray’s 1971 Feluda thriller Sonar Kella A book cover (left) and film poster for Sonar Kella Though I rarely read beyond Bengali novels in recent years, I was drawn to Amitav Ghosh’s Ghost-Eye because it seemed to reverse the central premise of Satyajit Ray’s Sonar Kella. A beloved film for many Bengalis of…
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Ritwik Ghatak at 100: The Many Re-incarnations of Ritwik in Bollywood
From Subhash Ghai to “Bidhu” Vinod Chopra to Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the unlikely ‘filmi’ students of the Film and Television Institute of India where Ghatak taught for all of two years, keep his legacy alive in unmissable ways. There is also Payal Kapadia, as non-Bollywood as it can get, who mentions his influence on her work The film lovers’ conventional…