Mamata Banerjee's inner circle may come under CBI lensThe CBI also claimed that Mohta bought several paintings of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, spending lakhs of the “deal money” ...
28 Jan, 2019, 08.21 AM IST
Centre using CBI to harass opposition parties, Mamata Banerjee allegesThe CBI is without a full-time director as the meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led selection committee to decide on the next CBI ch...
25 Jan, 2019, 02.00 PM IST
CBI arrests renowned Bengali film producer Shrikant Mohta in Rose Valley scamMohta was served a notice by the investigating agency regarding "acceptance of money from Rose Valley" and CBI sleuths questioned him in hi...
24 Jan, 2019, 08.52 PM IST
Drying funds create rift in Tollywood directorsThe dominance of a handful of production houses in the Bengal film industry has taken toll on much accomplished veterans like Haranath Chak...
28 Mar, 2017, 12.09 PM IST
Bengal’s iconic sleuths still pack a punchFrom Uttam Kumar to Saswata Chatterjee, every versatile actor in Bengal’s film industry has donned the detective’s hat at least once in the...
24 Dec, 2016, 01.17 AM IST
Tollywood slides into Rs 200 crore lossVice-president of East India Motion Pictures Association Krishna Daga said out of 176 films that were cleared since January, only 122 could...
02 Dec, 2016, 03.11 PM IST
Production houses count on e-media for content pushRegional bigwigs like Sree Ventakesh Films (SVF) and Balaji's Bengal venture Chayabani are eyeing to cash in on this opportunity and follow...
14 Oct, 2016, 03.21 PM IST
Flicker of hope for Bengali films after 3-year slumpThough the year didn't open with too many hits, the mid-year releases have got the cash registers ringing.
14 Jul, 2016, 11.46 AM IST
Production houses in Bengal revising content to bring in novelty to their releasesChander Pahar was not just the first Bengali film to be shot in South Africa with a budget of Rs11 crore but also the highest grosser at th...
02 Apr, 2016, 05.25 PM IST
Office space transactions in Kolkata register sharp rise in 2015While high streets of Park Street and Camac Street continued to top the list of best office spaces in town, RB connector turned out to be t...
11 Jan, 2016, 11.27 AM IST
Tollywood slips into Rs 100-crore loss in 2015The Bengal film industry had incurred a loss of 70 crore in each of the previous two years, according to the East India Motion Pictures Ass...
04 Jan, 2016, 11.11 AM IST
Tollywood stares at bleak future with back-to-back lossesWith back-to-back losses, Tollywood is staring at a bleak future. Of Rs 100 crore that went into production, the Bengali film industry coul...
09 Nov, 2015, 10.49 AM IST
Tollywood cries out for tax breather as single screen theatres gather dustMore than 200 single-screen cinemas in West Bengal downed their shutters over the past three years as hardly any Bengali film crossed Rs 2 ...
14 Sep, 2015, 10.19 AM IST
Tollywood delivers only five-six hits a year: ReportThe Rs 150 crore Bengali film industry which produces around a hundred movies annually gives only five-six hits, according to an industry r...
17 Dec, 2014, 04.04 PM IST
Meet the duo behind Shree Ventakesh Films who helped turn around Bengali cinemaSVF is the Yashraj Films of the East,” says Leena Jaisani, head, media and entertainment, FICCI. “SVF has been one of the most important ga...
04 Jan, 2014, 03.10 AM IST
Corporates join Tollywood bandwagon, Bengali film budgets rise to about 5-6 timesThe rising budgets that overseas shoots entail reflect the increasing interest of corporate investors in Bengali mainstream cinema.
02 Jan, 2014, 06.59 PM IST
- Sahara One to add two channels to its basket
Sahara One Entertainment is close to adding two music channels to its bouquet, Music India and Sangeet Bangla, by taking a majority stake i...
16 Mar, 2007, 02.13 AM IST