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Bengali cinema shines at Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2025 with bold line-up of nine films

The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2025 is poised to turn the spotlight on Bengali cinema, unveiling a compelling slate of nine films that showcase the region’s storytelling depth, cultural ...
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Mamata's Bangla film diktat and the Devdas syndrome

It was Assamese filmmaker Pramathesh Chandra Barua who turned Sarat Chandra's Devdas into a movie in 1935 and made the tragic hero a legend. The Bengali film in which Barua played the eponymous hero ...