As we reach the halfway mark of the year, Bengali cinema seems to have hit a purple patch, buoyed by two back-two-back hits in Haami and Uma in June. Coming only five years after Partha Chatterjee’s scathing indictment of contemporary Bengali cinema as being in ‘the throes of a crisis from which it is unlikely to emerge in the foreseeable future … (where) commercial films are a poor copy of their Hindi and Telugu counterparts … (and) the “other” kind of producer of Bengali films is bitten by the bug of so-called meaningful cinema that puts restless insomniacs to sleep’, this is indeed a remarkable turnaround by any standard.
© windowsproductions.com. All Rights Reserved
Top wpDiscuz