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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Why do you now have to pay to book a table?

A month or so ago, Chindi Varadarajulu — creative chef and partner at Chennai-based Pumpkin Tales and Zhouyu — received a table reservation for a group of 27 at her Asian restaurant. It’s upsetting when people don’t show up,” says Chindi, who has been vocal about the concept of table reservation deposits in India. Eyes on Bengaluru “The idea is …

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1 month ago

Uma Dasgupta, Iconic Child Actor of Satyajit Ray’s ‘Pather Panchali’, Dies at 83

The Hindu

Published : Nov 20, 2024 12:00 IST - 3 MINS READ One important aspect of Satyajit Ray’s great craft was that he would not begin a project until he had the right faces for the characters of his film. Nearly 70 years after the release of Pather Panchali, Uma, who broke everybody’s heart with Durga’s death in the film, passed …

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1 month ago

Bengali actor Uma Dasgupta, who played Durga in Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali, dies of cancer

Hindustan Times

One of the images that is immortalised in the history of Indian Cinema is that of Apu and Durga from Pather Panchali, running through a field to see the train for the first time. Uma Dasgupta, the Bengali actor who portrayed Durga in Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali, has died. Uma Dasgupta gained worldwide recognition for her performance as Durga in …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Watch the therukoothu play ‘Panchali Sabatham’ in Coimbatore

The Hindu

The street play Panchali Sabatham originally lasts an entire night. “It is usually performed from 10.30pm and goes on till 6am the next day,” says therukoothu veteran PK Sambandan. The 72-year-old, who runs the Purisai Duraisamy Kannappa Thambiran Therukoothu troupe in Purisai village in Thiruvannamalai district, is bringing the play to the city this weekend. The play is being organised …

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1 year ago

Ray-esque | Satyajit Ray's Favourite Shooting Locations

Firstpost

When world famous film maker Satyajit Ray decided to make Pather Panchali, he would go on location scouting. The village finally ended up turning into Pather Panchali’s pivotal outdoor location The camera zooms into Satyajit Ray’s favourite shooting locations. Of course, the city has seen vast changes ever since father shot there.” After Aparajito, Ray made two films back to …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Mahabharata’s many versions find place in this Tamil folk dance form called Kattaikoothu

The Hindu

Two hours before showtime, the quaint Kattaikkuttu Gurukulam, located eight kilometres from Kanchipuram town, amidst trees, stepwells and a smattering of houses, whirrs to life. Watch | All about Kattaikoothu, a traditional Tamil folk dance form For now, the focus is on ensuring that streaks of green, pink, orange and white powder are carefully applied on the face with a …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Martin Scorsese reveals he was inspired by Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali: 'Cinema opened to me'

Firstpost

Martin Scorsese revealed that he was just a boy when he first saw Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali and from that point cinema opened to him. He also talked about Satyajit Ray’s cult classic Pather Panchali. Martin Scorsese on Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali When asked if his new movie Killers of the Flower Moon will resonate in countries such as India …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Tandoori Omakase makes a debut in South Delhi

The Hindu

Located inside The Manor — a luxury hotel in the South Delhi enclave of Friends Colony — where Indian Accent once stood, INJA has taken up a spot that not many have dared to: it is far away from any commercial activity. A marriage of Indian and Japanese “INJA was born when Chef Advait Anantwar came to us with the …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Ray-esque | Remembering Satyajit Ray's chief assistant director Ramesh Sen

Firstpost

Film virtuoso Satyajit Ray ’s chief assistant director and virtually a member of the Ray family, Ramesh Sen, who passed away on October 6th, 2020, was naturally mentioned by his fair name in the opening titles of Ray’s movies. “This is the juncture when Bansi Chandragupta roped me in to work in Manikda’s 1965 film Nayak as chief assistant director. …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Ektaa Kapoor Urges Govt To Find Missing Balaji Ex-COO, Phone Bhoot New Promo Released

News 18

Ekta Kapoor has requested the Indian government and humanitarian organisation Kenya Red Cross to help find Zulfikar Ahmad Khan, former Chief Operating Officer of her banner Balaji Telefilms. In an Instagram post, Ekta shared a photograph of Khan and wrote, “Our Ex-COO of Balaji Telefilms Limited has disappeared from Nairobi almost three months ago I request the Ministry of External …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali Is Best Indian Film Of All Time On FIPRESCI List; Sholay At No. 10

News 18

India chapter of the International Federation of Film Critics has shared a list of the top ten Indian movies of all time. As reported by Indian Express, FIPRESCI released this list of best Indian movies of all time after conducting a secret poll that reportedly involved 30 members of their India chapter. A list of the All Time Ten Best …

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2 years, 3 months ago

First Take: R Balki's Chup pays a heartwarming tribute to Guru Dutt

Firstpost

Chup doesn’t have a single ounce of extra meat in its two hours and twelve minutes of intriguing storytelling. The way the romance grows through Sachin Dev Burman’s timeless songs from Guru Dutt’s cinema, especially Jaane Kya Tuney Kahi in Pyaasa and Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam in Kaagaz Ke Phool, the way Danny cycles through miles of Mumbai’s …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Ray-esque | From Pandit Ravi Shankar to the Mahabharata; Satyajit Ray’s unrealised films

Firstpost

Movie maestro Satyajit Ray had once contemplated making a short film on virtuosic sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar. “Interestingly, if one flips through the pages of Ashani Sanket’s script, you will discover the unfinished script of Ekti Jibon,” says Sandip. “In wake of Ashani Sanket’s thumping success, father had mulled making a short film, Drobomoyeer Kashibash, based on a writing by …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Ray-esque | Satyajit Ray’s French Connection

Firstpost

Sandip Ray, Satyajit Ray’s son narrates his father’s relationship with renowned French filmmaker Jean Renoir and how the French equation in Ray’s life took off when he finished making Pather Panchali Renowned French film director Jean Renoir arrives in Calcutta to carve out a new movie creation, his well-known, The River. Thus, he readily embraced the idea of father keeping …

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2 years, 6 months ago

A graphic novel based on the Mahabharata for your reading list

Live Mint

Panchali, written by Sibaji Bandyopadhyay and visualised by Sankha Banerjee is the second in a projected series of five graphic novels by the same makers that retell parts of the Mahabharata. Panchali is compelling, as the early books of the Mahabharata generally are, and in this volume, we easily apprehend the central story of the warring family without being pulled …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Review: Field Notes from a Waterborne Land by Parimal Bhattacharya

Hindustan Times

The scenes are familiar, brought alive in vividly sensuous prose: “The acrid smell of burning cow dung hung in the air. It produced a sound like muffled heartbeats.” Parimal Bhattacharya writes of a locality called Mahashaypara in a village called Sthirpara near Plassey, the historic battlefield where Robert Clive defeated the Nawab of Bengal to lay the foundations of the …

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2 years, 7 months ago

The Hindu on Books | Satyajit Ray in books, notes from the prison cell and more

The Hindu

This article forms a part of The Hindu on Books newsletter which brings you book reviews, reading recommendations, interviews with authors and more. For Apu Trilogy, Ray turned to Bengali writer Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay’s debut novel Pather Panchali, a story about two children, Apu and Durga, growing up in rural Bengal. Saibaba’s chronicles from prison; six girls, erstwhile workers of a …

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2 years, 7 months ago

National Museum of Indian Cinema to host film festival on Satyajit Ray’s birth anniversary

The Hindu

On the 101st birth anniversary of Satyajit Ray, the National Museum of Indian Cinema, Mumbai under the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry will host a three-day film festival at various venues across India to screen films made by the legendary filmmaker. National Museum of Indian Cinema, Mumbai in association with the National Film Development Corporation, Films Division, National Film Archives …

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2 years, 8 months ago

On Satyajit Ray’s death anniversary, looking at his uncompromisingly strong female protagonists

Firstpost

The Ray heroine is as significant as the hero of any screenplay but never needs to engage in a contest of gender supremacy or undermine his presence in her world At a time when cinema, the world over is learning to look at women with an all-new gaze, Satyajit Ray’s films find relevance for the remarkable grasp of the female …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Satyajit Ray’s French connection

The Hindu

Although Satyajit Ray and his filmsare not widely associated with France, they nevertheless have several significant French connections—ranging from the film director Jean Renoir and the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson to the actor Gerard Depardieu and the cartoon character Tintin, amongst others, including two significant Ray films produced by French companies, Branches of the Tree and Pikoo. As he put it …

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3 years, 2 months ago

‘Films are pre-Satyajit or post-Satyajit’: Shyam Benegal remembers Satyajit Ray

The Hindu

Often the mostenduring bonds in life are forged on freak incidents. Back in Hyderabad, he formed a film society, and in 1959 organised a screening of Ray’s films, notably the trilogy of Pather Panchali, Aparajito and Apur Sansar. The illustrious film-maker was wrapping up Nayak when Benegal went to the sets of the film and Ray invited him to a …

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3 years, 2 months ago

‘Apu’ in a changing India: Aparna Sen on Satyajit Ray

The Hindu

The eminent film- Aparna Sen, who is also one of the biggest stars of the Bengali screen, had acted in several of Satyajit Ray’s films, including Teen Kanya and Pikoo, and shared a close personal relationship with him throughout his life. In my opinion, in all of Ray’s films I see ‘Apu’ changing along with India, even though the films …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Unstated politics: The political statements in Satyajit Ray's films

The Hindu

Soumitra Chattopadhyay, who starred in 14 of Satyajit Ray’s 30 full-length feature films, once wrote a message for a very young fan on a DVD cover of Hirak Rajar Deshe : “One day you will grow up and start seeing these films in new light. There is a theory that the “Calcutta trilogy” was Ray’s answer to a point being …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Subterranean parallels: Common threads between Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Ritwik Ghatak

The Hindu

For decades, the cine culture of West Bengal has shown a couple of apparently contradictory symptoms: upholding the ‘Ray-Ghatak-Sen’ triumvirate as a sort of holy pantheon within which the cinematic glory of the region is limited and, in more intellectual circuits, pitting Satyajit Ray against Ritwik Ghatak as cultural icons. When we remember Ray, Ghatak and Mrinal Sen, we remember …

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Why do you now have to pay to book a table?

Uma Dasgupta, Iconic Child Actor of Satyajit Ray’s ‘Pather Panchali’, Dies at 83

Bengali actor Uma Dasgupta, who played Durga in Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali, dies of cancer

Watch the therukoothu play ‘Panchali Sabatham’ in Coimbatore

Ray-esque | Satyajit Ray's Favourite Shooting Locations

Mahabharata’s many versions find place in this Tamil folk dance form called Kattaikoothu

Martin Scorsese reveals he was inspired by Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali: 'Cinema opened to me'

Tandoori Omakase makes a debut in South Delhi

Ray-esque | Remembering Satyajit Ray's chief assistant director Ramesh Sen

Ektaa Kapoor Urges Govt To Find Missing Balaji Ex-COO, Phone Bhoot New Promo Released

Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali Is Best Indian Film Of All Time On FIPRESCI List; Sholay At No. 10

First Take: R Balki's Chup pays a heartwarming tribute to Guru Dutt

Ray-esque | From Pandit Ravi Shankar to the Mahabharata; Satyajit Ray’s unrealised films

Ray-esque | Satyajit Ray’s French Connection

A graphic novel based on the Mahabharata for your reading list

Review: Field Notes from a Waterborne Land by Parimal Bhattacharya

The Hindu on Books | Satyajit Ray in books, notes from the prison cell and more

National Museum of Indian Cinema to host film festival on Satyajit Ray’s birth anniversary

On Satyajit Ray’s death anniversary, looking at his uncompromisingly strong female protagonists

Satyajit Ray’s French connection

‘Films are pre-Satyajit or post-Satyajit’: Shyam Benegal remembers Satyajit Ray

‘Apu’ in a changing India: Aparna Sen on Satyajit Ray

Unstated politics: The political statements in Satyajit Ray's films

Subterranean parallels: Common threads between Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Ritwik Ghatak