Essays

Long-form writing on the eras and movements of Bengali cinema — the Golden Age, Parallel Cinema, and beyond.

Parallel Cinema

Parallel Cinema: When Bengali Film Turned Its Camera on Real Life

How Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Mrinal Sen built a cinema of conscience out of a newly independent, newly partitioned Bengal.

Cholochitro · 5 September 2026

The writing sits alongside the catalogue — discover films or read the legends who made them.