Durga Puja isn’t just about pandal hopping and feasting in Kolkata — it is also about family time, childhood memories and nostalgia that refuses to die. It is this emotion that many filmmakers have ...
Writer-director Razid Season offers a quietly crushing short on identity, family, belonging, and existence itself in “Elijah.” In just nineteen minutes, the short condenses the fierce struggle between ...
A new Bengali film, Dhaki, explores the fading tradition of live dhak players at Durga Puja. Seventy-year-old Tilak Dhaki faces replacement by recorded music. The film portrays his struggle as a fight ...