Utpal Dutt

Gol Maal completes 40 years: Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Amol Palekar was the not-so-Angry Young Man of 1970s

While Salim-Javed wrote dialogues laced with rage for Amitabh Bachchan's Angry Young Man movies, Gol Maal director Hrishikesh Mukherjee commented on issues like unemployment in siganture lighthearted style.

Mrinal Sen's Hindi directorial debut Bhuvan Shome proves how legendary filmmaker made the ordinary look beautiful

Mrinal Sen showed no matter how many transformational journeys we go though, the world around us does not change. What changes is the way we look at that same old world.

Agantuk: Through Utpal Dutt's character, Satyajit Ray articulated his views on civilisation's illusory nature

It is said that after the final shot of Agantuk, Satyajit Ray announced – ‘That’s it. I don’t have anything more to say.’ A few months later, he passed away in a nursing home in Kolkata | #FirstCulture

Hirak Rajar Deshe: Satyajit Ray's satire against state oppression is one of Indian cinema's best

With Hirak Rajar Deshe, Satyajit Ray set out to write and direct a powerful film against the ever-deteriorating condition of state administration and public welfare in the country

Jana Aranya: Satyajit Ray's most cynical, ruthless film resonates with today's world

The one theme running throughout Satyajit Ray's Jana Aranya (The Middleman) is its frustrated cynicism — the feeling that all is lost

Byomkesh Bakshy, Piku and other Bollywood Bengalis we love

Maybe these rugged fake Bengali men like Rajput’s Byomkesh will make the real Bengali men rise.