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Bold films? Just look at Mrinal Sen’s work, says veteran actress Mamata Shankar

The last few hours of 2018 have cast a pall of gloom on Bengal’s cinephiles as Mrinal Sen, the last of the troika of great filmmakers with Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, passed away today, aged 95, of cardiac respiratory failure at his home in Bhawanipore. One of the more revered Indian filmmakers across the globe and a …

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Martin Scorsese first expressed his wish to restore Kalpana: Mamata Shankar

Dance great Uday Shankar’s directorial Kalpana (1948) was screened at the 24th Kolkata International Film Festival on Monday. Uday Shankar’s daughters Mamata Shankar and Tanusree Shankar were present at the screening along with Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, who restored the film. “My father was on a vacation with Guru Dutt and my mother Amala Shankar when he …

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