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Singer Zubeen Garg set to make Bollywood debut as an actor, director in posthumous film. Here's what we knowAssamese music icon Zubeen Garg tragically passed away in Singapore at 52, leaving behind a legacy of musical brilliance. Despite the loss,...
Ex-AMU VC, Olympian were on 19-member Padma search panelBesides Prof Mansoor, the committee consisted of Sujan R. Chinoy, former diplomat; I V Subba Rao and Kirit Shelat, former civil servants; A...
President to confer Padma awards on late Kalyan Singh, Victor Banerjee, 72 othersAmongst the prominent awardees at the second investiture ceremony will be Padma Vibhushan recipients, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister l...
Nambi Narayanan, PT Usha were part of Padma panelThe constituents of this panel were not publicly known till now. The awards were announced last month on the eve of Republic Day and were c...
Microsoft's Nadella and Google's Pichai among Padma awardees, Sonu Nigam receives the Padma ShriOlympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra was also conferred the Padma Shri.
Padma Awards: Padma Vibhushan for late CDS Bipin Rawat, Kalyan Singh; Neeraj Chopra gets Padma ShriVeteran politician Kalyan Singh will receive the Padma Vibhushan posthumously. Also, late Communist leader and West Bengal chief minister B...
Release of Satyajit Ray's hand-written script of 'Ghare Baire' delayed due to Covid surgeThe original script was accessed with the help of Ray's family.
Assamese film 'Xhoixobote Dhemalite' gets 8 nominations at US film festivalThe movie, English translation - Rainbow Fields, is directed by Bidyut Kotoky.
Govt revamps culture board, brings in members with BJP leaningsThe 23-member panel under the chairmanship of Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma, also has flautist Pt Hari Prasad Chaurasia.
Chaired by Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma, revamped Culture Board now mostly has pro-government membersSantoor player Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma, flautist Pt Hari Prasad Chaurasia and vocalist Pt Rajan Mishra are among the most distinguished paneli...
Victor Banerjee to play Rabindranath Tagore in Indo-Argentine filmVictor will relive Tagore's relationship with Argentine writer and thinker Victoria Ocampo.
New docu-fiction to explore Gumnami Baba angle to Netaji mysteryTill now no movie on Netaji's life had ventured beyond the so-called Taihoku air crash of August 18, 1945 which was said to have killed the...
Amitabh Bachchan could've been FTII chairman, but Modi govt ignored I&B list and selected Gajendra ChauhanGajendra Chauhan, whose choice as chairman of the FTII has sparked a controversy, was not in contention for the position until about six mo...
Unfreedom, a film that was banned by the censors, is now using that as its USPThe film, a contemporary thriller, features a lesbian love story as well as an Islamic terrorism-related angle.
Why star leaders like Tapas Pal, Moon Moon Sen are a cause of concern for Mamata BanerjeeAs the recent Tapas Pal incident shows, Mamata's increasing dependence on actors in political roles has begun to backfire. But does she hav...
Children of War: Horrors of Bangla Liberation War revisitedThe film revolves around civilians caught in the nine-month conflict which pitted Bangladeshi independence fighters against Pakistani Army.
Violence in films is exaggerated: Victor BanerjeeThe interactive session also saw the participation of the other jury members like Goran Paskaljevic, Atiq Rahimi, Claire Denis, Prasanna Vi...
- Movie funding: Indie filmakers look for money on Facebook
Social networking sites like Facebook and other online communities are fast emerging as tools for independent filmmakers to crowdsource the...