Indian actor Prosenjit Chatterjee is a veteran of more than 250 films, but his most recent endeavor “Shesh Pata” is one of the special ones.
Chatterjee is a superstar in the eastern Indian Bengali-language film industry and a sought-after actor in the Hindi-language Bollywood industry as well. He scored global hits in 2023 with his pivotal roles in Prime Video series “Jubilee” and Netflix series “Scoop.” The same year, he starred in Bengali blockbuster “Dasham Avatar.”
For “Shesh Pata,” Chatterjee reunited with director Atanu Ghosh, with whom he’d done successful films “Mayurakshi” (2017) and “Robibaar” (2019). In “Shesh Pata,” Chatterjee plays Balmiki, an arrogant non-conformist fiction writer whose best days are behind him. A publisher commissions him to write a book about his murdered actress wife, but Balmiki, who is sunk in a morass of tobacco and alcohol, does not deliver. The publisher engages a debt recovery agent to get the writing out of Balmiki.
Chatterjee is a superstar in the eastern Indian Bengali-language film industry and a sought-after actor in the Hindi-language Bollywood industry as well. He scored global hits in 2023 with his pivotal roles in Prime Video series “Jubilee” and Netflix series “Scoop.” The same year, he starred in Bengali blockbuster “Dasham Avatar.”
For “Shesh Pata,” Chatterjee reunited with director Atanu Ghosh, with whom he’d done successful films “Mayurakshi” (2017) and “Robibaar” (2019). In “Shesh Pata,” Chatterjee plays Balmiki, an arrogant non-conformist fiction writer whose best days are behind him. A publisher commissions him to write a book about his murdered actress wife, but Balmiki, who is sunk in a morass of tobacco and alcohol, does not deliver. The publisher engages a debt recovery agent to get the writing out of Balmiki.
- 5/3/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Bengali superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee has dedicated over three decades to the world of acting, yet he still feels the pressure to deliver. Even after working in over 300 movies, the actor admits to feeling jittery with the release of a new film, as it feels like his first.
Prosenjit, who is lovingly called Bumba Da by his fans, began his journey as a child actor with Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s ‘Chotto Jigyasa’. His breakthrough came in 1987 with Sujit Guha’s ‘Amar Sangi’, after which the spotlight never left him.
Despite the challenges he has faced in cinema, he still loves every bit of it.
When asked about feeling pressure to deliver a hit film, considering his past successes, Prosenjit told Ians: “Yes. It is always pressure to do any kind of film, whether it is a hit or a critically acclaimed one. But for any kind of film, when it gets released,...
Prosenjit, who is lovingly called Bumba Da by his fans, began his journey as a child actor with Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s ‘Chotto Jigyasa’. His breakthrough came in 1987 with Sujit Guha’s ‘Amar Sangi’, after which the spotlight never left him.
Despite the challenges he has faced in cinema, he still loves every bit of it.
When asked about feeling pressure to deliver a hit film, considering his past successes, Prosenjit told Ians: “Yes. It is always pressure to do any kind of film, whether it is a hit or a critically acclaimed one. But for any kind of film, when it gets released,...
- 4/25/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
The next magnum opus from Amazon Prime Video India is “Jubilee,” a period piece that charts the growing pangs of India and the rise of the country’s Hindi-language film industry that would come to be known by the term Bollywood in later years.
Beginning around the months in 1947 when the subcontinent was partitioned into India and Pakistan, the dramatis personae in the series include studio boss Srikant Roy (Prasenjit Chatterjee), his movie star wife Sumitra Kumari (Aditi Rao Hydari), trusted aide with acting ambitions Binod Das (Aparshakti Khurana), talented refugee Jay Khanna (Sidhant Gupta) and courtesan Nilofer (Wamiqa Gabbi), whose worlds collide.
The series is created by Vikramaditya Motwane (“Sacred Games”) and Soumik Sen (“Mahalaya”) and written by Atul Sabharwal (“Class of ’83”). It is produced by Andolan Films in association with Reliance Entertainment and Phantom Studios.
Motwane says that the genesis of the series was a decade ago when...
Beginning around the months in 1947 when the subcontinent was partitioned into India and Pakistan, the dramatis personae in the series include studio boss Srikant Roy (Prasenjit Chatterjee), his movie star wife Sumitra Kumari (Aditi Rao Hydari), trusted aide with acting ambitions Binod Das (Aparshakti Khurana), talented refugee Jay Khanna (Sidhant Gupta) and courtesan Nilofer (Wamiqa Gabbi), whose worlds collide.
The series is created by Vikramaditya Motwane (“Sacred Games”) and Soumik Sen (“Mahalaya”) and written by Atul Sabharwal (“Class of ’83”). It is produced by Andolan Films in association with Reliance Entertainment and Phantom Studios.
Motwane says that the genesis of the series was a decade ago when...
- 4/3/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
By Vinayak Chakravorty
He was the alt superstar of Bangla cinema in its glory years, the affable Bhadralok icon who crafted a towering stature ironically banking on down-to-earth, believable characters that represented middle-class Bengal. The brand of stardom was in stark contrast to the other shining luminary of contemporary cinema in the state -- Uttam Kumar -- whose position as Mahanayak in the Bengali psyche was primarily cemented in idol worship and mass hysteria.
Soumitra Chattopadhyay -- Chatterjee to anglicised India -- answers to the term ‘phenomenon' as absolutely as few actors do, for the sheer ease with which he defied the cliches of image. His stardom was sensational, and yet born out of realism. He was the mascot of the peerless Satyajit Ray's oeuvre, having worked with the maestro in 14 films, and yet he scored with the same assuredness in works of contemporary commercial powerhouses as Ajoy Kar and Tarun Mazumdar.
He was the alt superstar of Bangla cinema in its glory years, the affable Bhadralok icon who crafted a towering stature ironically banking on down-to-earth, believable characters that represented middle-class Bengal. The brand of stardom was in stark contrast to the other shining luminary of contemporary cinema in the state -- Uttam Kumar -- whose position as Mahanayak in the Bengali psyche was primarily cemented in idol worship and mass hysteria.
Soumitra Chattopadhyay -- Chatterjee to anglicised India -- answers to the term ‘phenomenon' as absolutely as few actors do, for the sheer ease with which he defied the cliches of image. His stardom was sensational, and yet born out of realism. He was the mascot of the peerless Satyajit Ray's oeuvre, having worked with the maestro in 14 films, and yet he scored with the same assuredness in works of contemporary commercial powerhouses as Ajoy Kar and Tarun Mazumdar.
- 11/15/2020
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
Indian actor Soumitra Chatterjee, best known internationally for his long association with Oscar-winning filmmaker Satyajit Ray, died on Sunday in Kolkata after contracting coronavirus. He was 85.
Chatterjee was born in Calcutta in 1935. While at university he developed an interest in theater and was subsequently mentored by Sisir Bhaduri, a doyen in the field. He pursued an acting career in cinema while working as an announcer with All India Radio.
Chatterjee’s film debut, “The World of Apu,” (1959) was the third part of Ray’s celebrated Apu Trilogy that began with Cannes-winner “Pather Panchali” in 1955 and continued with Venice-winner “Aparajito” in 1956. The film began a fruitful association with Ray over the years that included “The Goddess” (1960), “Three Daughters” (1961), “The Expedition” (1962), “Charulata” (1964), “Days and Nights in the Forest” (1970), “Distant Thunder” (1973), “The Golden Fortress” (1974), “The Elephant God” (1979), “The Home and the World” (1984) and “Branches of the Tree” (1990).
Chatterjee also worked with the other greats of Bengali-language cinema,...
Chatterjee was born in Calcutta in 1935. While at university he developed an interest in theater and was subsequently mentored by Sisir Bhaduri, a doyen in the field. He pursued an acting career in cinema while working as an announcer with All India Radio.
Chatterjee’s film debut, “The World of Apu,” (1959) was the third part of Ray’s celebrated Apu Trilogy that began with Cannes-winner “Pather Panchali” in 1955 and continued with Venice-winner “Aparajito” in 1956. The film began a fruitful association with Ray over the years that included “The Goddess” (1960), “Three Daughters” (1961), “The Expedition” (1962), “Charulata” (1964), “Days and Nights in the Forest” (1970), “Distant Thunder” (1973), “The Golden Fortress” (1974), “The Elephant God” (1979), “The Home and the World” (1984) and “Branches of the Tree” (1990).
Chatterjee also worked with the other greats of Bengali-language cinema,...
- 11/15/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
1. Nirbaak
Love is an expression which can be uttered through different moods of mind. It could be vocal, vibrant and even violent. But love also can be silent, where a thread of silence can bind the motion of love keeping the flow alive. Director Srijit Mukherji deals with this “silent love” in his experiment to portray this basic human feeling on a different canvas with a never told narrative. “Nirbaak” (Bengali) or “Speechless” is one of the best experimental movies happened in Indian cinema in recent times. Film making is an art which is done by the means of some technological tools. And an art does not care about any theory but follows the artistic instincts. “Nirbaak” is a hard-hitting experimental movie which rarely happens in Indian Cinema. It might be surreal in some aspects but tries to bring out the eternal meaning of love in a different way dictated by a master director.
Love is an expression which can be uttered through different moods of mind. It could be vocal, vibrant and even violent. But love also can be silent, where a thread of silence can bind the motion of love keeping the flow alive. Director Srijit Mukherji deals with this “silent love” in his experiment to portray this basic human feeling on a different canvas with a never told narrative. “Nirbaak” (Bengali) or “Speechless” is one of the best experimental movies happened in Indian cinema in recent times. Film making is an art which is done by the means of some technological tools. And an art does not care about any theory but follows the artistic instincts. “Nirbaak” is a hard-hitting experimental movie which rarely happens in Indian Cinema. It might be surreal in some aspects but tries to bring out the eternal meaning of love in a different way dictated by a master director.
- 4/29/2020
- by Sankha Ray
- AsianMoviePulse
After grabbing attention for its interesting award nominations and winners’ list last year, Critics’Choice Film Awards are back again with even more intriguing nominations spread across eight Indian languages.
While the first edition of Critics’ Choice Film Awards witnessed Best Film category for varied languages, for the second season the makers have upped the ante by introducing Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film as well as Best Writing across Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, Gujarati and Kannada.
Offering a surprising twist to the usual nomination lists as usual, this year there are surprises with Best Actor nominations including names like Manoj Bajpayee for SonChiriya and Gulshan Devaiah for Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota, Geetika Vidya Ohlyan for Soni, and Hamid bagging a nomination for Best Writing. Critics’ Choice Film Awards holds its ground to honour cinematic brilliance irrespective of the mass appeal of the films.
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While the first edition of Critics’ Choice Film Awards witnessed Best Film category for varied languages, for the second season the makers have upped the ante by introducing Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film as well as Best Writing across Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, Gujarati and Kannada.
Offering a surprising twist to the usual nomination lists as usual, this year there are surprises with Best Actor nominations including names like Manoj Bajpayee for SonChiriya and Gulshan Devaiah for Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota, Geetika Vidya Ohlyan for Soni, and Hamid bagging a nomination for Best Writing. Critics’ Choice Film Awards holds its ground to honour cinematic brilliance irrespective of the mass appeal of the films.
Film...
- 3/2/2020
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Life is a quest for the unknown. And as William Shakespeare says, “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players”, sometimes the quest is for the perfect role on the platform of life. “Binisutoy” is a movie of two characters who are in search of that role which has all desirable elements, qualities or characteristics. They perform on the great canvas called life as actors to satisfy their inner soul and to connect with the ultimate thread of peace – love!
Kajal Sarkar (Ritwick Chakraborty) meets Sraboni Barua (Jaya Ahsan) while attending an audition of a reality show. While leaving the show, Sraboni faces a freak accident and Kajal helps her and takes her to the doctor. They become friends and with time share two stories from their lives. The narrative flows along the journey of two strangers with some intriguing twists and turns with...
Kajal Sarkar (Ritwick Chakraborty) meets Sraboni Barua (Jaya Ahsan) while attending an audition of a reality show. While leaving the show, Sraboni faces a freak accident and Kajal helps her and takes her to the doctor. They become friends and with time share two stories from their lives. The narrative flows along the journey of two strangers with some intriguing twists and turns with...
- 1/27/2020
- by Sankha Ray
- AsianMoviePulse
It’s quite difficult to keep the poetic expression of cinema alive while portraying the realism and rudeness of truth in life. And love is the sole thread to express those poetic emotions that suddenly fill the missing components of life. Director Atanu Ghosh’s “Robibaar” is a classic example of that poetic cinema where love reconnects two souls, who are poles apart mentally and ideologically. With some brilliant performances by the protagonists, Prosenjit Chatterjee and Jaya Ahsan and masterly crafted by Atanu Ghosh, “Robibaar” is one of the best Indian movies of recent time and a must watch.
Sayoni (Jaya Ahsan), a corporate law officer, goes out for walk in a lazy Sunday morning and suddenly meets her ex-boyfriend Asimabha (Prosenjit Chatterjee) in a local cafeteria, after a gap of fifteen years Asimabha is a fraudster and they broke up long back and Asimabha got married later. The narrative...
Sayoni (Jaya Ahsan), a corporate law officer, goes out for walk in a lazy Sunday morning and suddenly meets her ex-boyfriend Asimabha (Prosenjit Chatterjee) in a local cafeteria, after a gap of fifteen years Asimabha is a fraudster and they broke up long back and Asimabha got married later. The narrative...
- 1/20/2020
- by Sankha Ray
- AsianMoviePulse
Bengali film fraternity on Monday mourned the death of Jnanpith award winner Girish Karnad and took to social media remembering the stalwart's contributions.?Karnad died at his residence in Bengaluru on Monday morning. He was 81.
"Playwright, actor, scholar, an inspiring personality with brilliant intellect wit and humor, my earliest remembrance of Girish Karnad being an eternal favorite - Swami's father in Malgudi Days. Farewell to an institution - you seldom come across such profound people nowadays," tweeted National award-winning director Atanu Ghosh of 'Mayurakshi' fame.
Actor Parambrata Chatterjee seen alongside Vidya Balan in 'Kahani' lamented the demise of an alternative voice amidst mainstream cinema.
"We grew up with your films and plays! Will always remember you as an alternative, progressive voice amidst the mainstream din. #RIPGirishKarnad," he wrote.
Bengali superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee shared a "Rest in peace #GirishKarnad" message on his social media page.
Director Srijit Mukherji known for films...
"Playwright, actor, scholar, an inspiring personality with brilliant intellect wit and humor, my earliest remembrance of Girish Karnad being an eternal favorite - Swami's father in Malgudi Days. Farewell to an institution - you seldom come across such profound people nowadays," tweeted National award-winning director Atanu Ghosh of 'Mayurakshi' fame.
Actor Parambrata Chatterjee seen alongside Vidya Balan in 'Kahani' lamented the demise of an alternative voice amidst mainstream cinema.
"We grew up with your films and plays! Will always remember you as an alternative, progressive voice amidst the mainstream din. #RIPGirishKarnad," he wrote.
Bengali superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee shared a "Rest in peace #GirishKarnad" message on his social media page.
Director Srijit Mukherji known for films...
- 6/10/2019
- GlamSham
Roshan Taneja, who trained scores of Hindi film actors including the likes of Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Jaya Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, and Shatrughan Sinha, has died, said a family member. He was 87.
"My father passed away last night (Friday) at 9.30 p.m. in his sleep at home after a prolonged illness," the acting guru's son Rohit Taneja told Ians on Saturday morning.
He is survived by his wife Mithika and sons Rohit and Rahul.
The cremation will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday at the electric crematorium in Santacruz West.
Roshan Taneja, known to many as the 'pioneer of method acting' in India, is held in high regard in the Hindi film industry. He had been training talent since the 1960s, first at the Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii) in Pune and later at his private school in Mumbai, the Roshan Taneja School of Acting.
Shabana paid...
"My father passed away last night (Friday) at 9.30 p.m. in his sleep at home after a prolonged illness," the acting guru's son Rohit Taneja told Ians on Saturday morning.
He is survived by his wife Mithika and sons Rohit and Rahul.
The cremation will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday at the electric crematorium in Santacruz West.
Roshan Taneja, known to many as the 'pioneer of method acting' in India, is held in high regard in the Hindi film industry. He had been training talent since the 1960s, first at the Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii) in Pune and later at his private school in Mumbai, the Roshan Taneja School of Acting.
Shabana paid...
- 5/11/2019
- GlamSham
Roshan Taneja, the man behind the treasure trove of talent in Bollywood including the likes of Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Jaya Bachchan, Anil Kapoor and Shatrughan Sinha, is dead at 87. His students paid emotional tributes.
"My father passed away last night (Friday) at 9.30 p.m. in his sleep at home after prolonged illness," the acting guru's son Rohit Taneja told Ians on Saturday morning.
Roshan Taneja was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February this year. He is survived by his wife Mithika and sons Rohit and Rahul.
His cremation was held at the electric crematorium in Santa Cruz West. It was attended by Anil, Govinda, Ratna Pathak Shah, Kanwaljit Singh and Gufi Paintal.
Roshan Taneja's passion for acting took him to New York at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre to train under the famous Sanford Meisner and Sydney Pollack, who went on to become an Academy Award winning director.
"My father passed away last night (Friday) at 9.30 p.m. in his sleep at home after prolonged illness," the acting guru's son Rohit Taneja told Ians on Saturday morning.
Roshan Taneja was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February this year. He is survived by his wife Mithika and sons Rohit and Rahul.
His cremation was held at the electric crematorium in Santa Cruz West. It was attended by Anil, Govinda, Ratna Pathak Shah, Kanwaljit Singh and Gufi Paintal.
Roshan Taneja's passion for acting took him to New York at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre to train under the famous Sanford Meisner and Sydney Pollack, who went on to become an Academy Award winning director.
- 5/11/2019
- GlamSham
Kaushik Ganguly’s Apur Panchali takes off on Pather Panchali and is about the child actor who played Apu in the film – Subir Banerjee – and what happened to him because he never made another film after Ray’s masterpiece.
Cinema in India has now split up into several pan-Indian categories. Apart from the mainstream Hindi film we have the ‘indie’ cinema represented by films like The Lunchbox and Ship of Theseus as well as the documentary (Fire in the Blood), which has become commercially viable, as it was not. Apart from these categories, there is the regional art film which, unlike its popular counterpart, is pan-Indian rather than local – because it is aimed at audiences at film festivals and other pan-Indian cultural gatherings, and cannot be imagined without subtitles in English. The pan-Indian art film is gaining ground across India and well-known film critics were also recommending the Indian Panorama...
Cinema in India has now split up into several pan-Indian categories. Apart from the mainstream Hindi film we have the ‘indie’ cinema represented by films like The Lunchbox and Ship of Theseus as well as the documentary (Fire in the Blood), which has become commercially viable, as it was not. Apart from these categories, there is the regional art film which, unlike its popular counterpart, is pan-Indian rather than local – because it is aimed at audiences at film festivals and other pan-Indian cultural gatherings, and cannot be imagined without subtitles in English. The pan-Indian art film is gaining ground across India and well-known film critics were also recommending the Indian Panorama...
- 2/13/2014
- by MK Raghavendra
- DearCinema.com
Tokhon Teish
Atanu Ghosh’s latest, all set for release on January 21
Nostalgia is one important constituent of Bengali life. This might be a sweeping statement, standing a risk of drawing flak from critics. But that is what one feels after viewing majority of the contemporary Bengali films. Be it placing yesteryear heroines together ‘after a gap’ of N number of years, or making up a thirty-ish struggling actor in the mould of the biggest matinee idol of the land – we have seen it all. So it comes as a respite when I chanced upon Atanu Ghosh’s second feature film Tokhon Teish (Then 23, 2010).
Atanu’s first feature Angshumaner Chhobi (Angshuman’s film, 2009) did raise hope in dealing with complicated themes with relative ease and sensitivity. There were questions, both cinematically and philosophically as to the position the director wants to take – his intentions opposing his credentials at times. It...
Atanu Ghosh’s latest, all set for release on January 21
Nostalgia is one important constituent of Bengali life. This might be a sweeping statement, standing a risk of drawing flak from critics. But that is what one feels after viewing majority of the contemporary Bengali films. Be it placing yesteryear heroines together ‘after a gap’ of N number of years, or making up a thirty-ish struggling actor in the mould of the biggest matinee idol of the land – we have seen it all. So it comes as a respite when I chanced upon Atanu Ghosh’s second feature film Tokhon Teish (Then 23, 2010).
Atanu’s first feature Angshumaner Chhobi (Angshuman’s film, 2009) did raise hope in dealing with complicated themes with relative ease and sensitivity. There were questions, both cinematically and philosophically as to the position the director wants to take – his intentions opposing his credentials at times. It...
- 1/14/2011
- by Amitava Nag
- DearCinema.com
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- 12/6/2009
- by Bikas Mishra
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Two book publications and a DVD edition to mark The Berlinale’s 60th Anniversary
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Ghatak's 'Meghe Dhaka Tara' tops the 'T20 of Indian Cinema' list
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- 11/29/2009
- by Bikas Mishra
- DearCinema.com
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Bengal leads in Indian Panorama films for Iffi, Goa
The Indian Panorama of the 2009 International Film Festival of India, to be held in Panjim from November 23, will include six movies from Bengal, three from Karnataka, three from Maharashtra and two each from Kerala and Tamil Nadu. There will also be five Hindi films, two English and one each in... Read More
The Man Beyond The Bridge selected for Hong Kong Asian Fest and Mami Competitions
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Mumbai Film Festival to open with Matt Damon’s “Informant”
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- 10/18/2009
- by bikas
- DearCinema.com
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- 10/12/2009
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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Raja Menon's recently released film "Barah Anna", is all set to travel to Chicago Film Festival. This will be the only Indian film in the 45th edition of the festival. Screened under the title of "Shortchanged", the movie stars Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Raaz and Arjun Mathur. The festival that begun... Read More
13 Indian Films at Pusan
14th Pusan Film Festival, October 8-16 is has a wide representation of Indian cinema. 13 Indian films including two shorts are being screened at the festival this year. Umesh Kulkarni's Marathi film "Vihir" is in the New Currents section of the festival, while Rituparno Ghosh's "Abohomaan (Eternal... Read More
After Boyle, Schrader eyes India
If Danny Boyle can do it, why cannot Paul Schrader? The screenwriter of classics such as Raging Bull and Taxi Driver has written a film set in Mumbai. Called Xtrme City, the...
- 10/4/2009
- by bikas
- DearCinema.com
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