Satyajit Ray remains a leading idol for Bengalis all over the world even more than 30 years after his death. Bangladeshi Proshoon Rahman pays tribute to the great filmmakers by coming up with a movie that moves somewhere between the feature, the documentary, and the film about the film. “Dear Satyajit” has already screened in a number of festivals around the world, including Vancouver, Florence and Kerala, winning the Jury Prize for Best Feature from Florence, and Best Actor, Best Cinematography & Best Editing Award in Feature Film Category from Jaipur.
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The movie starts with a documentarian, Aparajita Huq, wishing to shoot a hybrid documentary to commemorate Ray's birthday centenary celebration. She has already found a protagonist in Asif Mahmud, a man who resembles the Bengali filmmaker in a number of ways, with the first scenes dealing with her meeting the...
“Dear Satyajit” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
The movie starts with a documentarian, Aparajita Huq, wishing to shoot a hybrid documentary to commemorate Ray's birthday centenary celebration. She has already found a protagonist in Asif Mahmud, a man who resembles the Bengali filmmaker in a number of ways, with the first scenes dealing with her meeting the...
- 8/1/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Parambrata Chattopadhyay is the latest actor to play Oscar-winning Indian master Satyajit Ray’s detective Prodosh Chandra Mitter Aka Feluda in streamer ZEE5 Global’s series “Shabash Feluda.”
Feluda first appeared in the Ray family’s Bengali-language magazine Sandesh in 1965. Ray directed two Feluda films, “The Golden Fortress” (1974) and “The Elephant God” (1978), where the Bengali detective was played by his frequent collaborator Soumitra Chatterjee. Feluda has subsequently been played by a range of Indian actors, including Shashi Kapoor, Abir Chatterjee, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Indraneil Sengupta and Bangladesh’s Ahmed Rubel.
The detective is part of the fabric of growing up in West Bengal and Bangladesh, akin to what Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple used to be for several generations in the west.
Chattopadhyay first interpreted the detective in 2017 for series “Feluda” for Bangladesh’s Bioscopelive which he directed and also played Feluda. “It was a very radical interpretation...
Feluda first appeared in the Ray family’s Bengali-language magazine Sandesh in 1965. Ray directed two Feluda films, “The Golden Fortress” (1974) and “The Elephant God” (1978), where the Bengali detective was played by his frequent collaborator Soumitra Chatterjee. Feluda has subsequently been played by a range of Indian actors, including Shashi Kapoor, Abir Chatterjee, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Indraneil Sengupta and Bangladesh’s Ahmed Rubel.
The detective is part of the fabric of growing up in West Bengal and Bangladesh, akin to what Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple used to be for several generations in the west.
Chattopadhyay first interpreted the detective in 2017 for series “Feluda” for Bangladesh’s Bioscopelive which he directed and also played Feluda. “It was a very radical interpretation...
- 6/13/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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