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Humour: The great indoors

We’re all in the same biblical boat right now. Locked in. Looking out.(Photo imaging: Parth Garg)

Updated on Apr 12, 2020 02:41 AM IST

Kolkata’s “Queen of Cabaret” Miss Shefali dead at 76

Arati Das, better known as Miss Shefali, Kolkata’s Queen of Cabaret, dies at 76.(Twitter)

Updated on Feb 06, 2020 05:22 PM IST

NCPA: Where arts took centre stage for 50 years

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who inaugurated the NCPA twice, is flanked by JRD Tata and Dr Jamshed Bhabha at the opening of the Tata Theatre on October 11, 1980. In her speech she is said to have opened with a quote that to her mind best described the importance of a cultural centre, “If I had two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths to feed my soul.”(NCPA)

Updated on Dec 13, 2019 08:50 PM IST

HT Brunch Cover Story: Over the top and on point with Shyam Benegal

Benegal has just watched Article 15 and is pretty impressed by the new filmmakers(Prabhat Shetty)

Updated on Oct 11, 2019 08:46 PM IST

Gurugramwale: The damru walla

Ram Bir sells crispy snacks around the lanes of Gurugram.(HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 31, 2019 12:40 PM IST

CelebsPick: 5 authors pick their favourite biographies

Here’s a list of five iconic biographies that will inspire you

Updated on Jul 20, 2019 08:51 PM IST

How do you solve a problem like Kangana?

Actress Kangana Ranaut at the trailer launch of her upcoming film

Published on Jul 14, 2019 12:37 AM IST

Satyajit Ray: A Master of World Cinema

Among the dozen or so great masters of world cinema, Satyajit Rat is known for his humanistic approach to cinema. His films were made in Bengali and yet are of universal interest.(Illustration: Mohit Suneja)

Updated on Jul 03, 2019 03:49 PM IST

Cannes 2019: Antonio Banderas starrer Pain and Glory is all about Pedro Almodovar

Antonia Banderas in a still from Pain and Glory.

Updated on May 21, 2019 03:43 PM IST

Beijing film fest puts Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy in ‘Belt and Road’ group

Satyajit Ray’s three movies from the Apu Triology have been clubbed in the belt and Road category at the Beijing Film fest.(Screngrab/BJIFF)

Updated on Apr 04, 2019 05:31 PM IST

Hit or flop? A walk through India’s first film museum

It’s not all bad. The interactive VFX section is a definite win. It lets you pick a background, pose against a green screen and have a picture taken of the completed effect. There’s also an interactive sound and Foley section, where you can edit on film. And clips from films like Raja Harishchandra (1913), an early and rare work.(Kunal Patil / HT Photo)

Updated on Feb 14, 2019 07:30 AM IST

France confers highest civilian honour on 92-year-old priest from Bengal

Father Franois Laborde is the third person from West Bengal to have been awarded the Légion d’Honneur.(Twitter/ @FranceinIndia)

Updated on Feb 06, 2019 09:38 PM IST

Revisiting Satyajit Ray’s Boral, the village from where he started his cinematic journey in Pather Panchali

Saral Dighi, a pond in the village Boral, was one of the sites for Pather Panchali, say locals. The shooting of the Satyajit Ray classic remains a cherished memory for the people of Boral.(Arijit Sen/HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 07, 2019 11:03 PM IST

On Sharmila Tagore’s birthday, pics from her family album with husband Mansoor, son Saif and Kareena

Happy Birthday Sharmila Tagore!

Updated on Dec 08, 2018 08:09 AM IST

Two months before party’s foundation day, Bengal CPI shuts down daily mouthpiece

One of the last daily editions of Kalantar. The masthead was designed by Satyajit Ray 52 years ago.(HT Photo)

Published on Nov 01, 2018 05:35 PM IST

BBC reveals list of 100 best foreign language films, only one Indian movie finds spot

Pather Panchali is directed by Satyajit Ray and was released in 1955.

Updated on Oct 31, 2018 03:56 PM IST

Sandip Ray readies his first Professor Shonku film

Director Sandip Ray at his Kolkata residence.(Samir Jana/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Aug 11, 2018 09:41 AM IST

Dhritiman Chatterjee to play Professor Shonku, a Satyajit Ray hero

Actor Dhritiman Chatterjee plays Professor Shonkhu in a new film based on Satyajit Ray’s character based on a scientist.(Photo: Samir Jana / HT)

Updated on Aug 11, 2018 09:41 AM IST

Review: Nayak - The Hero The Satyajit Ray film novelized by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

Satyajit Ray at home in Calcutta on 10 April, 1982.(Santosh Basak/ Getty Images)

Updated on Jul 21, 2018 12:23 AM IST

Soumitra Chatterjee: The living legend India forgot

Chatterjee could have been the romantic hero, but he preferred to be an actor rather than a ‘hero’(Kunal Patil)

Updated on Jul 15, 2018 01:45 AM IST

Satyajit Ray was a genius: Ralph Fiennes

Actor Ralph Fiennes poses for photographers. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)(AP)

Updated on Jul 02, 2018 04:18 PM IST

Ananth Mahadevan to make Satyajit Ray’s The Storyteller in Hindi with Naseeruddin Shah and Paresh Rawal

In 1967, Ray wrote a story called The Alien, which he sent to several Hollywood studios but nothing came of it. Years later, when Steven Spielberg’s classic ET The Extra Terrestrial opened in 1982, its plot seemed uncannily similar to The Alien.

Updated on May 24, 2018 03:34 PM IST

A farrago of emotions: Shashi Tharoor’s short stories take centre stage

Artistes rehearse for the play, on Thursday.(Kunal Patil/HT Photo)

Updated on May 18, 2018 03:43 PM IST

From Bankubabur Bandhu to Avatar: The true saga behind Ray’s Alien

Satyajit Ray had first drafted the story for Alien in 1962.

Updated on May 04, 2018 11:31 AM IST

‘Produce a film if you feel you will die if you don’t make that film. It was like that with me, with Ray’

Director Satyajit Ray Ray operating the camera during the shoot of Shatranj ke Khilari(Photo courtesy: My Adventures with Satyajit Ray / HarperCollins)

Updated on May 12, 2018 09:46 AM IST

HT Picks

Good reads for the weekend.(HT Team)

Updated on Apr 27, 2018 07:13 PM IST

Pity India doesn’t have Satyajit Ray’s kind of cinema anymore, says Majid Majidi

Iranian film director Majid Majidi during a press conference for his upcoming film 'Beyond The Clouds' at Hyatt hotel in Kolkata.(Photo by Samir Jana/ Hindustan Times)

Updated on Apr 16, 2018 04:56 PM IST

From Guddi to Mili, how Jaya Bachchan was India’s true middle class heroine

Jaya Bachchan made her big screen debut in 1971 and in a short span of time, became one of the most established stars in the Hindi film industry.

Updated on Apr 09, 2018 12:08 PM IST

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