Saayoni Ghosh’s instagram post Kolkata: Facing intense backlash over her decision to join the rebel Trinamool bloc — including criticism from former colleague and MP Mahua Moitra — MP Saayoni Ghosh has remained publicly silent, choosing instead to make a statement through a dramatic image change on social media late Tuesday night.Trading her signature saree…
KOLKATA: In a bitter twist of fate for Anik Dutta’s controversially “banned” film, ‘Bhobisyoter Bhoot’ (BB), a planned tribute screening at Kolkata’s Nandan screening complex has been abruptly cancelled.’Repeated calls from TOI to Nandan CEO went unanswered. On June 3, the film’s producer, Kalyanmoy Chatterjee, had announced on social media that the movie would run…
Kolkata: Anik Dutta’s Satyajit Ray centenary tribute, “Aparajito”, will begin screening at Nandan this Friday in honour of the recently deceased director. Despite a written recommendation from the Nandan film selection committee, the movie was originally blocked from the venue following intervention from “higher authorities”. According to the committee, this controversial exclusion inadvertently sparked a…
Kolkata: If all went well, at least two of the seven feature films made by Anik Dutta would shortly be screened at Nandan 1, actor and BJP MLA Rudranil Ghosh told TOI on Friday.Only one among the feature films, made by Dutta, has been screened at the state-run Nandan complex, in Auditorium 2. None could…
Kolkata: City cops investigating the death of 66-year-old film-maker Anik Dutta are now certain it was a case of death by suicide.The sleuths have cited several findings — from the postmortem report, witness accounts and the recovery of a note and slippers on the roof from which Dutta fell — to arrive at the conclusion.Dutta…
Bengali filmmaker Anik Dutta KOLKATA: Award-winning director Anik Dutta, 66, the man behind a new genre of political satire in Bengali cinema, died after falling from the roof of a six-storey residential building at Hindustan Park near Gariahat on Wednesday. He was taken to anearby private hospital around 1.15pm but declared dead on arrival.Police said…
Anik Dutta’s house on Hindustan Park Kolkata: Shocked neighbours of Hindustan Park and Dover Lane remember filmmaker Anik Dutta as a dignified and quiet man who kept to himself but who was warm-hearted. Dutta and his wife Sandhi used to live in a duplex in the six-storey (G+5) building at Hindustan Park. But the former…
Acclaimed Bengali filmmaker Anik Dutta passed away on Wednesday after reportedly falling from the rooftop of his residence in Kolkata’s Hindustan Park area. The sudden demise of the director has left the Bengali film industry and cinephiles in deep shock. As stated by Newsthetruth.com, reports suggest that the incident took place at Dutta’s South Kolkata…
