Bollywood actress Riya Sen made her Bengali film debut with a small appearance in director Rituparno Ghosh's film "Abohamaan", which was screened here Sunday."I refused every offer I got for Bengali movies as I wanted to start my career in Bengali films with a Rituparno Ghosh film. I was waiting for the right opportunity," said Riya."Abohamaan" is the story of a Bengali filmmaker who marries an actress....
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Bollywood actress Riya Sen made her Bengali film debut with a small appearance in director Rituparno Ghosh's film "Abohamaan", which was screened here today."I refused every offer I got for Bengali movies as I wanted to start my career in Bengali films with a Rituparno Ghosh film. I was waiting for the right opportunity," said Riya."Abohamaan" is the story of a Bengali filmmaker who marries an actress....
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 After a brief stint in a couple of Bollywood films, Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh has gone a step ahead doubling up as a script-advisor...
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What was your first reaction when Sujoy Ghosh came and offered you the role of Aladin’s genie?I liked the concept of contemporasing the story and bringing in that tongue-in-cheek factor for the story.or other fables and fairy tales? Did you ever want to play any character you had read as a child?We have all grown up with these fables and have at some point or the other wished to be these characters...
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Ali Khan, who has done a good number of Bengali and Hindi movies, says she is keen to work in a Telugu movie and is awaiting a good offer."Nobody from Andhra Pradesh has approached me with a good film. If they do, then I would certainly consider it," said the actress, who received critical acclaim for her performances in the Bengali filmSoha has a strong Hyderabadi connection too, and has enjoyed its...
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Sachin's favourite - lobsters cooked Bengali style < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateApart from clobbering bowlers all over the park, Sachin Tendulkar relishes lobsters - specially those cooked Bengali style.While Tendulkar's enormous appetite for runs during 20 long years of international cricket has earned him plaudits the world over, his love of Bengali food is known only to a privileged few, who...
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23-year-old graduate would be eligible for most jobs in the country, you wouldthink. But not if he has a degree in Bengali. Even in culture-capital' Kolkata,a BA in Bengali doesn't fetch a security guard's job. If you can't speak theQueen's language, you are nowhere.Meet 23-year-old Deepankar Ghosh,a first-year MA student at Jadavpur University's Bengali department. Ghoshadmits he cannot speak English,...
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Konkani film 'Paltadacho Munis' by Laxmikant Shetgaonkar will open the feature films section of Indian Panorama of the 40th International Film Festival of India,(IFFI-2009) be held in Goa later this month.The Indian Panorama will have 26 feature films, six of which are Bengali, and 18 non-feature films.The non-feature film section will open with 'In For Motion' (English) directed by Anirban Datta.The...
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Newbie restauranteur Rajyasree Sen of Brown Sahib gives the humble mishti doi a new twist.She’s busy promoting her new restaurant, Brown Sahib, but Rajyasree Sen is more than enthusiastic to prepare one of her restaurant’s popular dishes for us. “The restaurant is like an extension of my home in Kolkata,” she says. For someone who grew up in a traditional Bengali household, it’s not surprising that...
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(October 18), the old URL for the link to the website of old Calcutta photographs was used. Here is the updated link.. The name of the unknown GI was misspelt: it is Clyde not Claude. You might also be interested in another collection that I put of a local woman, Mary Binney Wheeler, who took a number of trips to India in the 1970s and 1980s and I have put up her collection of slides as well. “50 reasons...
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