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Cinema of West Bengal

Index Cinema of West Bengal

The cinema of West Bengal (ṭôliuḍ), also known as Tollywood refers to the Indian Bengali language film industry based in the Tollygunge region of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. [1]

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Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami (عباس کیارستمی; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer and film producer.

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Academy Honorary Award

The Academy Honorary Award – instituted in 1948 for the 21st Academy Awards (previously called the Special Award, which was first presented in early 1929) – is given annually by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards, although prior winners of competitive Academy Awards are not excluded from receiving the Honorary Award.

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Aditya Vikram Sengupta

Aditya Vikram Sengupta (Bengali: আদিত্য বিক্রম সেনগুপ্ত, born September 6, 1983) is an Indian film director, cinematographer and graphic designer.

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Aishwarya Rai

Aishwarya Rai (born 1 November 1973), also known by her married name Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, is an Indian actress, model and the winner of the Miss World 1994 pageant.

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Ajantrik

Ajantrik (known internationally as The Unmechanical, The Mechanical Man or The Pathetic Fallacy) is a 1958 Indian Bengali film written and directed by parallel filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak.

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Akira Kurosawa

was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.

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American Cinematographer

American Cinematographer is a magazine published monthly by the American Society of Cinematographers.

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Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

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Anandalok Puraskar

Anandalok Puraskar or Anandalok Awards (আনন্দলোক পুরস্কার) ceremony is one of the most prominent film events given for Bengali Cinemas in India.

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Anik Dutta

Anik DuttaSpelling according to is a Bengali film director who made his directorial debut in 2012 film Bhooter Bhabishyat.

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Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury

Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury is a Bengali and Hindi film director.

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Anjan Dutt

Anjan Dutt (19 January 1953) is an Indian film director, actor, and singer-songwriter of the 1990s Bengali music scene defined by anyodharar gaan (alternative music)- reminiscent of western folk music.

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Anup Kumar (actor)

Anup Kumar (17 June 1930 – 3 September 1998) was an Indian film actor who mainly worked in Bengali cinema.

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Anurag Basu

Anurag Basu is an Indian reality show-judge, director, actor, screenwriter and producer.

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Aparajito

Aparajito (অপরাজিত Ôporajito; The Unvanquished) is a 1956 Indian Bengali drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray (1921–1992), and is the second part of The Apu Trilogy.

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Aparna Sen

Aparna Sen (Ôporna Shen; born 25 October 1945) is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and actress who is known for her work in Bengali cinema.

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Aranyer Din Ratri

Aranyer Din Ratri (অরণ্যের দিনরাত্রি Araṇyēra Dinarātri, Days and Nights in the Forest) is an Indian Bengali adventure drama film released in 1970, written and directed by Satyajit Ray.

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Arindam Sil

Arindam Sil (born 12 March 1964) is an Indian film star, film director and line producer.

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Art film

An art film is typically a serious, independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience.

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Asiatic Society of Bangladesh

The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh was established as the Asiatic Society of Pakistan in Dhaka in 1952, and renamed in 1972.

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Ayan Mukerji

Ayan Mukerji (or Mukherjee) (born 15 August 1983) is an Indian film director, from the cinema prominent Mukherjee-Samarth family.

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Bari Theke Paliye

Bari Theke Paliye (English-language title: Runaway or The Runaway) is a 1958 Bengali film by director Ritwik Ghatak.

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Bela Seshe

Bela Seshe (English:At the end of the day) (Also written as Belaseshe:In The Autumn of my Life) is a Bengali family drama film directed by the duo, Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee, produced by M.K. Media and Windows Productions and distributed by Eros International.

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Bengal

Bengal (Bānglā/Bôngô /) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in Asia, which is located in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.

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Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards

Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards commonly referred as BFJA Awards, is given by The Bengal Film Journalists' Association.

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Bengali film directory

Bengali Film Directory is an archive of Bengali films (in English).

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia.

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Bengalis

Bengalis (বাঙালি), also rendered as the Bengali people, Bangalis and Bangalees, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group and nation native to the region of Bengal in the Indian subcontinent, which is presently divided between most of Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Jharkhand.

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Bhanu Bandopadhyay

Bhanu Bandyopadhyay (born as Samyamoy Bandyopadhyay; 26 August 1920 – 4 March 1983) was a Bengali Indian actor, known for his work in Bengali cinema.

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Bharat Ratna

The Bharat Ratna (Jewel of India) is the highest civilian award of the Republic of India.

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Bilat Ferat

Bilat Ferat বিলেত ফেরত (England Returned) also known as Bilet Pherat, is a 1921 Bengali silent film directed by N.C. Lahiri and produced by Dhirendra Nath Ganguly.

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Bilwamangal

Bilwamangal (Bengali: বিল্লমঙ্গল Billamaŋgal, pronounced), also known as Bhagat Soordas, is a 1919 silent black-and-white film directed by Rustomji Dhotiwala, a Parsi Gujarati based on the story by Gujarati writer Champshi Udeshi.

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Bioscope show

A Bioscope show was a music hall and fairground attraction consisting of a travelling cinema.

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Bollywood

Hindi cinema, often metonymously referred to as Bollywood, is the Indian Hindi-language film industry, based in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Maharashtra, India.

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Bombaiyer Bombete (film)

Bombaiyer Bombete (বোম্বাইয়ের বোম্বে) is a 2003 Indian Bengali thriller film directed by Sandip Ray based on the story of the same name by Satyajit Ray.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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Buddhadeb Dasgupta

Buddhadeb Dasgupta (Bengali: বুদ্ধদেব দাশগুপ্ত Buddhodeb Dashgupto) (born 1944) is a poet and prominent contemporary Indian filmmaker, most known for films like Bagh Bahadur, Tahader Katha, Charachar and Uttara.

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Cairo

Cairo (القاهرة) is the capital of Egypt.

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Calcutta trilogy

The Calcutta trilogy may refer to either of the following two Bengali film trilogies: Three films by Satyajit Ray.

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California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology (abbreviated Caltech)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; other spellings such as.

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Canada Council

The Canada Council for the Arts (Conseil des Arts du Canada), commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown Corporation established in 1957 to act as an arts council of the government of Canada, created to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts.

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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Festival (Festival de Cannes), named until 2002 as the International Film Festival (Festival international du film) and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from all around the world.

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Carlos Saura

Carlos Saura Atarés (born 4 January 1932) is a Spanish film director, photographer and writer.

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Charulata

Charulata (চারুলতা Cārulatā; in English also known as The Lonely Wife) is a 1964 Indian Bengali drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray based upon the novella Nastanirh ("The Broken Nest") by Rabindranath Tagore.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chokher Bali (film)

Chokher Bali (sand in the eye, constant irritant) is a Bengali language drama film based on the novel Chokher Bali by Rabindranath Tagore.

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Cinema of Asia

Asian cinema refers to the film industries and films produced in the continent of Asia, and is also sometimes known as Eastern cinema.

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Cinema of Bangladesh

The cinema of Bangladesh is the Bengali language film industry based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Cinema of India

The Cinema of India consists of films produced in the nation of India.

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Cinema of South India

The Cinema of South India is used to refer collectively to the five different film industries of South India: Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Tulu film industries, as a single entity.

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Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, often metonymously referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on the film industry in general since the early 20th century.

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Cinema of West Bengal

The cinema of West Bengal (ṭôliuḍ), also known as Tollywood refers to the Indian Bengali language film industry based in the Tollygunge region of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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Cinematography

Cinematography (also called Direction of Photography) is the science or art of motion-picture photography by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as film stock.

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Cinemaya

Cinemaya is an influential film magazine established in 1988 devoted exclusively to coverage of Asian film.

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CNN-News18

CNN-News18 (originally CNN-IBN) is an Indian English-language news television channel founded by Rajdeep Sardesai located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

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Coming of age

Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult.

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Crore

A crore (abbreviated cr) or koti denotes ten million (10,000,000 or 107 in scientific notation) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system as 1,00,00,000 with the local style of digit group separators (a lakh is equal to one hundred thousand and is written as 1,00,000).

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Danny Boyle

Danny Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English director, producer, screenwriter and theatre director, known for his work on films including Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, and Steve Jobs.

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Debaki Bose

Debaki Bose (18981971), also known as Debaki Kumar Bose, was an Indian director, writer, and actor who is recognized for his contribution in Hindi as well as Bengali cinema.

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Deepa Mehta

Deepa Mehta, (born September 15, 1950) is an Indo-Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, ''Fire'' (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005).

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Dena Paona

Dena Paona (দেনা পাওনা) is a 1931 Bengali film directed by Premankur Atorthy, starring Amar Mullick, Durga Das Bannerjee, Jahar Ganguly, Nibhanani Devi and Bhanu Bandyopadhyay.

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Devdas

Devdas (দেবদাস, transliterated as Debdās) is a 1917 Bengali romance novel written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.

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Devi (1960 film)

Devi (Bengali:দেবী; English:The Goddess) is a 1960 Bengali drama film by director Satyajit Ray, starring Sharmila Tagore and Soumitra Chatterjee.

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Dey's Publishing

Dey's Publishing, based in Kolkata, India, ranks among the top Bengali publishing houses of India.

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Dhirendra Nath Ganguly

Dhirendra Nath Ganguly (26 March 1893 – 18 November 1978), better known as Dhiren Ganguly or D.G, was a Dadasaheb Phalke Award-winning and Padma Bhushan recipient film entrepreneur/actor/director of Bengali Cinema.

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Dibakar Banerjee

Dibakar Banerjee (born 21 June 1969) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer and advertisement-filmmaker known for his work in Hindi films.

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Digression

Digression (parekbasis in Greek, egressio, digressio and excursion in Latin) is a section of a composition or speech that marks a temporary shift of subject; the digression ends when the writer or speaker returns to the main topic.

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Directorate of Film Festivals

The Directorate of Film Festivals in India is an organisation that initiates and presents the International Film Festival of India, the National Film Awards and the Indian Panorama.

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Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Melissa Mathison.

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East India Film Company

The East India Film Company was an Indian film production company, based in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India.

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Elements trilogy

The Elements trilogy is a trilogy of films by Indian film-maker Deepa Mehta, dealing with controversial issues of social reform on the Indian subcontinent.

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Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan (born Elias Kazantzoglou; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".

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Euro

The euro (sign: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of the European Union.

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Feluda

Feluda (ফেলুদা), or Prodosh Chandra Mitra (প্রদোষ চন্দ্র মিত্র), who also uses the Anglicised name Pradosh C. Mitter, is a fictional Bengali private investigator starring in a series of Bengali novels of Indian fictional detective novels and short stories written by Indian Bengali film director and writer Satyajit Ray.

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Film Federation of India

The Film Federation of India (FFI) is an apex body of the Indian film producers (around 18,000), distributors (around 20,000), exhibitors (around 12,000) and studio owners, headquartered in Mumbai.

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Film industry

The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post production, film festivals, distribution; and actors, film directors, and other film crew personnel.

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Filmfare Awards East

Filmfare Awards East is the East Indian segment of the annual Filmfare Awards, presented by The Times Group to honour the artistic and cinematic excellence in Bengali film industry, Assamese film industry and Odia film industry.The first installment of the awards were held for Bengali, Assamese and Odia films in a ceremony on March 29, 2014.

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Flashback (narrative)

A flashback (sometimes called an analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.

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Forty Shades of Blue

Forty Shades of Blue is a 2005 independent film directed by Ira Sachs.

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François Truffaut

François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave.

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Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne

Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (Bengali: গুপী গাইন বাঘা বাইন ''Gupi Gain Bagha Bain'') is a 1969 Indian Bengali fantasy adventure comedy film written and directed by Satyajit Ray and based on a story by his grandfather Upendra Kishore Roychowdhury.

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Goutam Ghose

Goutam Ghose (also credited as Gautam Ghosh) (born 24 July 1950) is one of the most acclaimed film directors, music director, and cinematographer of modern India, who works primarily in Bengali cinema.

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Gregory Nava

Gregory James Nava (born April 10, 1949) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.

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Haranath Chakraborty

Haranath Chakraborty (alternate spelling Haronath Chakraborty হরনাথ চক্রবর্তী) is an Indian Bengali film director.

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Hemanta Mukherjee

Hemanta Mukherjee (16 June 1920 – 26 September 1989); often credited as Hemant Kumar outside Bengal) was an Indian music director, composer and playback singer,who sang in Bengali, Hindi and other Indian languages. He is also one of the known artists of Rabindra Sangeet. He won two National awards for the category best male playback singer.

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Herbie

Herbie the Love Bug is a fictional sentient anthropomorphic 1963 Volkswagen Beetle, a character that is featured in several Walt Disney motion pictures starting with the 1968 feature film The Love Bug.

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Hiralal Sen

Hiralal Sen (হীরালাল সেন, Hiralal Shen) (2 August 1866 – 26 October 1917) was an Indian photographer generally considered one of India's first filmmakers.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Hyperlink cinema

Hyperlink cinema is a term coined by author Alissa Quart, who used the term in her review of the film Happy Endings (2005) for the film journal Film Comment in 2005.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian rupee

The Indian rupee (sign: ₹; code: INR) is the official currency of the Republic of India.

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Indo British Film Co

The Indo British Film Co was a film production company set up by Dhirendra Nath Ganguly in 1918.

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Ira Sachs

Ira Sachs (born November 21, 1965) is an American filmmaker.

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Isao Takahata

was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Jalsaghar

Jalsaghar (জলসাঘর Jalsāghar, "The Music Room") is a 1958 Indian Bengali drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray based on a popular short story by Bengali writer Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay and starring Chhabi Biswas.

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Jamai Shashthi

Jamai Shashthi (জামাই ষষ্ঠী English: Son-in-law day) is a 1931 Bengali short film directed by Amar Choudhury, produced by Madan Theatre Limited.

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James Ivory

James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic.

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Joi Baba Felunath (film)

Joi Baba Felunath (The Elephant God) is a 1979 Indian Bengali mystery film by director Satyajit Ray, featuring Soumitra Chatterjee, Santosh Dutta, Siddartha Chatterjee, Utpal Dutt among others.

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K. C. Dey

Krishna Chandra Dey (কৃষ্ণ চন্দ্র দে) (1893–1962), better known as K.C. Dey, was a Bengali actor, singer, music composer and teacher born in Calcutta (now Kolkata).

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Kalakar Awards

Kalakar Awards is an award ceremony held in Eastern India, attended by a host of dignitaries, stars & celebrities and draws attention from the electronic and print media.

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Kamaleshwar Mukherjee

Kamaleswar Mukherjee is a Bengali film director and ad maker.

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Kanchenjungha (film)

Kanchenjungha (Bengali: কাঞ্চনজঙ্ঘা Kanchonjônggha) is a 1962 Indian film directed by Satyajit Ray.

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Karlovy Vary

Karlovy Vary or Carlsbad (Karlsbad) is a spa town situated in western Bohemia, Czech Republic, on the confluence of the rivers Ohře and Teplá, approximately west of Prague (Praha).

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Kaushik Ganguly

Kaushik Ganguly is an Indian director, screenwriter and actor in Bengali cinema.

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Kolkata

Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Lakh

A lakh (abbreviated L; sometimes written Lac or Lacs) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; scientific notation: 105).

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Languages of India

Languages spoken in India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 76.5% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 20.5% of Indians.

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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List of films considered the best

This is a list of films considered "the best ever", so voted in a notable national or international survey of either critics or the public.

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List of highest-grossing Bengali films

This is a list of highest-grossing Bengali films.

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List of Hollywood-inspired nicknames

Hollywood-inspired nicknames, most starting with the first letter(s) of the location and ending in the letters "-ollywood" or "-wood", have been given to various locations around the world with associations to the film industry - inspired by the iconic Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, whose name has come to be a metonym for the motion picture industry of the United States.

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Lists of Bengali films

List of Bengali films produced in West Bengal.

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Low-budget film

A low-budget film or low-budget movie is a motion picture shot with little to no funding from a major film studio or private investor.

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Madan Theatre

Madan Theatre Company, is also known as Madan Theatres Limited or in short, Madan Theatres was a film production company founded by Jamshedji Framji Madan, one of the pioneers of Indian Cinema.

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Madhabi Mukherjee

Madhabi Mukherjee née Chakraborty (born 10 February 1942) is an Indian Bengali actress who has won the National Film Award for Best Actress for the Bengali film Dibratrir Kabya.

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Mainak Bhaumik

Mainak Bhaumik is a Bengali film director and editor.

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Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film historian, whose career spans more than 50 years.

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Marxism

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.

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Meghe Dhaka Tara

Meghe Dhaka Tara (মেঘে ঢাকা তারা Mēghē Ḍhākā Tārā, meaning The Cloud-Capped Star) is a 1960 film written and directed by Ritwik Ghatak, based on a social novel by Shaktipada Rajguru with the same title.

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Minerva Theatre, Kolkata

The Minerva Theatre is a theatre in Calcutta, built in 1893.

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Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (Ministry of I&B) is a branch of the Government of India which is apex body for formulation and administration of the rules and regulations and laws relating to information, broadcasting, the press and films in India.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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Mrinal Sen

Mrinal Sen (also spelled Mrinal Shen, born 14 May 1923) is a noted Bengali filmmaker based in Kolkata.

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Mukta Arts

Mukta Arts is an Indian film production company.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (also known as Bombay, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

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My Family (film)

My Family is a 1995 independent American drama film directed by Gregory Nava, written by Nava and Anna Thomas, and starring Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, and Esai Morales.

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Nachiketa Ghosh

Nachiketa Ghosh (20 May 1925 – 12 October 1976) was one of the most acclaimed music directors and composers of India.

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Nagarik

Nagarik (নাগরিক), also spelled as Nagorik, The Citizen in English, was the first feature-length film directed by Indian director Ritwik Ghatak.

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Nandita Roy

Nandita Roy (born April 3, 1955) is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter.

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National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the annual awards given (since 1934) by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

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National Film Awards

The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremonies in India.

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Neel Akasher Neechey

Neel Akasher Neechey (Bengali: নীল আকাশের নীচে Nil akasher niche, "Under the Blue Sky") is a 1959 Bengali language film directed by Mrinal Sen and produced by Hemanta Mukherjee, starring Kali Bannerjee, Manju Dey, Bikash Roy and others.

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Negative (photography)

In photography, a negative is an image, usually on a strip or sheet of transparent plastic film, in which the lightest areas of the photographed subject appear darkest and the darkest areas appear lightest.

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New Theatres

New Theatres is an Indian film studio.

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled Daily News, is an American newspaper based in New York City.

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New York University Press

New York University Press (or NYU Press) is a university press that is part of New York University.

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Order of Friendship

The Order of Friendship (Орден Дружбы, Orden Druzhby) is a state decoration of the Russian Federation established by Boris Yeltsin by presidential decree 442 of March 2, 1994 to reward foreign nationals whose work, deeds and efforts have been aimed at the betterment of relations with the Russian Federation and its people.

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Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) is an Order of France, established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture, and its supplementary status to the Ordre national du Mérite was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963.

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Pankaj Mullick

Pankaj Mullick, also known as Pankaj Kumar Mullick (Pôngkoj Kumar Mollik; 10 May 1905 – 19 February 1978), was a popular Indian music composer and playback singer, who was a pioneer of film music in Bengali cinema and Hindi cinema at the advent of playback singing, as well as an early exponent of Rabindra Sangeet.

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Parallel cinema

Parallel cinema is a film movement in Indian cinema that originated in the state of West Bengal in the 1950s as an alternative to the mainstream commercial Indian cinema, represented especially by popular Hindi cinema, known today as Bollywood.

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Pather Panchali

Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) is a 1955 Indian Bengali-language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray and produced by the Government of West Bengal.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (فارسی), is one of the Western Iranian languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.

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Portmanteau

A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words,, p. 644 in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel.

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Pradeep Sarkar

Pradeep Sarkar (born 30 April 1955) is a writer and director who works in Bollywood.

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Praktan

Praktan (meaning Former) is a 2016 Indian Bengali film directed by Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy.

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Pramathesh Barua

Pramathesh Chandra Barua (প্রমথেশ চন্দ্র বৰুৱা, প্রমথেশ চন্দ্র বড়ুয়া) (24 October 1903 – 29 November 1951) was an Indian actor, director, and screenwriter of Indian films in the pre-independence era, born in Gauripur.

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Pratidwandi

Pratidwandi or Pratidandi (literally Adversary, Opponent or Competitor in Bengali; known internationally as The Adversary) is a 1970 Indian Bengali drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray based on the novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The Provinces of India, earlier Presidencies of British India and still earlier, Presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in the subcontinent.

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Rabi Ghosh

Robi Ghosh (রবি ঘোষ) (24 November 1931 – 4 February 1997) was an Indian actor and comedian who worked in Bengali cinema.

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Raichand Boral

Rai Chand Boral (19 October 1903 – 25 November 1981) was an Indian composer, considered by music connoisseurs to be the father of Bollywood film music.

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Raja Harishchandra

Raja Harishchandra is a 1913 Indian silent film, directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke, and is often considered as the first full-length Indian feature film.

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Ramoji Film City

The Ramoji Film City in India is located in Hyderabad.

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Rediff.com

Rediff.com is an Indian news, information, entertainment and shopping web portal, founded in 1996 as "Rediff On The NeT".

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Rituparno Ghosh

Rituparno Ghosh (31 August 1963 – 30 May 2013) was an Indian film director, actor, writer and lyricist in the Bengali cinema.

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Ritwik Ghatak

Ritwik Ghatak (4 November 19256 February 1976) was a Bengali filmmaker and script writer.

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Robin Chatterjee

Robin Chatterjee is an Indian music director who has scored music for more than a hundred films.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Royal Bioscope Company

The Royal Bioscope Company was the first film production company in Bengal, and possibly the first in India, set up in 1898 by Hiralal Sen, along with Matilal Sen, Deboki Lal Sen, and Bholanath Gupta.

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Sabitri Chatterjee

Sabitri Chatterjee (born 22 February 1937) is an Indian actress who is well known for her work in Bengali theatre and cinema.

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Sacred Evil – A True Story

Sacred Evil is an Indian supernatural/surreal film directed by Abhigyan Jha and Abhiyan Rajhans.

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Sandhya Roy

Sandhya Roy is an Indian actress and politician.

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Sangbad Pratidin

Sangbad Pratidin (সংবাদ প্রতিদিন) (literally meaning news every day) is a daily Indian Bengali newspaper published from Kolkata, India.

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Sathi (2002 film)

Sathi (known also as Saathi, Sathee or Saathee) (English: Companion) is a 2002 Indian Bengali-language film directed by Haranath Chakraborty.

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Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, graphic artist, music composer and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century.

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Screen (magazine)

Screen was a weekly film magazine, published in India.

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Sharmila Tagore

Sharmila Tagore (also known as Begum Ayesha Sultana; born 8 December 1944) is an Indian film actress known for her works in Hindi cinema as well as Bengali cinema.

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Shatranj Ke Khilari

Shatranj Ke Khilari (English: The Chess Players) is a 1977 Indian film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name.

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Shiboprosad Mukherjee

Shiboprosad Mukherjee is an Indian Bengali filmmaker, writer and actor.

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Shoojit Sircar

Shoojit Sircar is an Indian film director and producer.

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Sight & Sound

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group

The Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group (commonly known as the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group and formerly known as the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group until 2013 and abbreviated as SPMPG) is a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment to manage its motion picture operations.

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Soumitra Chatterjee

Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay O.L.H. (Shoumitro Chôttopaddhae; born 19 January 1935) is an Indian Bengali film and stage actor and poet.

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Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

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Srijit Mukherji

Srijit Mukherji (born 23 September 1977) is an Indian film director, actor, and screenwriter who predominantly works in Bengali cinema.

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Star Theatre, Kolkata

The Star Theatre is a theatre in Kolkata, built in 1883.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Subarnarekha (film)

Subarnarekha (সুবর্ণরেখা Subarṇarēkhā) is an Indian Bengali film directed by Ritwik Ghatak.

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Subrata Mitra

Subrata Mitra (12 October 1930 – 7 December 2001) was an Indian cinematographer.

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Suchitra Sen

Suchitra Sen (born as Roma Dasgupta) (6 April 1931 – 17 January 2014) was an Indian film actress who worked in Bengali and Hindi cinema.

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Sudhin Dasgupta

Sudhin Dasgupta (সুধীন দাশগুপ্ত; 9 October 1929 – 8 January 1982) was a prolific Bengali music director, lyricist, and singer.

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Sujoy Ghosh

Sujoy Ghosh is an Indian film director, actor and screenwriter.

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Sumitra Devi (actress)

Sumitra Devi (1923 - 1990) was an Indian actress who is recognized for her work in Hindi as well as Bengali cinema during 1940s and 1950s.

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Supriya Devi

Supriya Choudhury (8 January 1933 – 26 January 2018) was an Indian actress who is known for her work in Bengali cinema for more than 50 years.

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The 400 Blows

The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) is a 1959 French New Wave drama film, shot in DyaliScope and the debut by director François Truffaut; it stars Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, and Claire Maurier.

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The Alien (unproduced film)

The Alien was an unproduced Indian-American science fiction film in development in the late 1960s which was eventually cancelled.

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The Apu Trilogy

The Apu Trilogy comprises three Bengali films directed by Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and The World of Apu (1959).

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Statesman (India)

The Statesman is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper founded in 1875 and published simultaneously in Kolkata, New Delhi, Siliguri and Bhubaneswar.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The World of Apu

The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) is a 1959 Indian Bengali drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Time's All-Time 100 Movies

"All-Time" 100 Movies is a compilation by ''TIME'' magazine featuring and celebrating 100 of "the greatest" films released between March 3, 1923 (when the first issue of TIME was published) and early 2005 (when the list was compiled).

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Tollygunge

Tollygunge is a locality of south Kolkata, in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India.

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University of California, Santa Cruz

The University of California, Santa Cruz (also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC), is a public research university and one of 10 campuses in the University of California system.

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Urdu

Urdu (اُردُو ALA-LC:, or Modern Standard Urdu) is a Persianised standard register of the Hindustani language.

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Utpal Dutt

Utpal Dutta (Bengali: উৎপল দত্ত Utpôl Dôtto) (29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright.

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Uttam Kumar

Uttam Kumar (3 September 1926– 24 July 1980) (born as Arun Kumar Chatterjee) was an Indian film actor, director, producer, singer, composer, and playback singer who predominantly worked in Indian Cinema.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia,; Venesia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Wes Anderson

Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, and actor.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Paśchimbāṅga) is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.

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X-ray

X-rays make up X-radiation, a form of electromagnetic radiation.

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1956 Cannes Film Festival

The 9th Cannes Film Festival was held from 23 April to 10 May 1956.

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