Dibakar Banerjee returns to the director's chair after the critically acclaimed Shanghai with a brand new adaptation of the works of Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay in Detective Byomkesh Bakshy.Byomkesh Bakshy is a legendary Indian literary character, a detective on par and very much influenced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Like Holmes, Bakshy has also been adapted to the screen, both big and small, numerous times with at least nine feature adaptations by Bengali filmmakers like Satyajit Ray (Chiriyakhana) and Rituparno Ghosh (whose final film was Baskhy story Satyanweshi and starred fellow Bengali filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh as Bakshy), as well as TV serials and other appearances. With a wealth of stories, 32 written by Bandyapadhyay between 1932 and 1970, Bakshy is a gift that keeps on giving...
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- 12/7/2014
- Screen Anarchy
DearCinema takes stock of one of the oldest film societies in Mumbai, on its 43rd anniversary
Prabhat Chitra Mandal, one of the oldest existing film societies in Mumbai is in a constant tussle with modernity and new-age technology. In its office in the ancient Marathi Granth Sangrahalaya building in Dadar, hangs a portrait of Guru Dutt which was gifted to Prabhat by his second son Arun in the early nineties. The portrait looked majestic in its original, claims trustee Sudhir Nandgaonkar, who has been withPrabhat since its inception. He thinks it looks a little less graceful in its present digitised form.
The film society that began in 1968 celebrates its 43rd anniversary this month, and comes a full circle with the screening of Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy as part of the celebrations. Ray’s Chiriyakhana was the first film that Prabhat had screened in Mumbai on July 5, 1968 at Chitra theatre in Dadar.
Prabhat Chitra Mandal, one of the oldest existing film societies in Mumbai is in a constant tussle with modernity and new-age technology. In its office in the ancient Marathi Granth Sangrahalaya building in Dadar, hangs a portrait of Guru Dutt which was gifted to Prabhat by his second son Arun in the early nineties. The portrait looked majestic in its original, claims trustee Sudhir Nandgaonkar, who has been withPrabhat since its inception. He thinks it looks a little less graceful in its present digitised form.
The film society that began in 1968 celebrates its 43rd anniversary this month, and comes a full circle with the screening of Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy as part of the celebrations. Ray’s Chiriyakhana was the first film that Prabhat had screened in Mumbai on July 5, 1968 at Chitra theatre in Dadar.
- 7/30/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
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