Aparna Sen News

CAN A FILM BE COMMERCIAL, incorporating songs and ingratiating product plugs, and yet not too commercial, wanting to embrace a wide audience but not at the cost of losing its soul along the way? Aniruddha Roy Chowdhurya TMs beautifully bittersweet Antaheen somehow finds that magical mean a ' not alienatingly arty, yet not panderingly market-minded.

It is noteworthy that at a time when the Maoist presence in Lalgarh had grabbed West Bengala s attention, Aparna Sen was busy shooting her latest film, Iti Mrinalini, whose hero is a Naxalite.

State Home Secretary Ardhendu Sen today ruled out any action against intellectuals like Mahasweta Devi, actor Aparna Sen, playwright Bratya Basu for their alleged links with Chhatradhar Mahato but said their next target was top Maoist leader Kishenji.

The West Bengal government today said there was no evidence of Maoist link against writer Mahasweta Devi or film-maker Aparna Sen, but Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee pointed out that intellectuals were being targeted by the state and dared it to arrest her.

Mamata Banerjee flags off a train to Digha at New Jalpaiguri on Monday. Calcutta, Oct.

The Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival, which runs from Nov. 11-15 in New York, will kick off with the opening night film "Today's Special," directed by David Kaplan and starring Aasif Mandvi.

Konkona Sen Sharma on her upcoming films and why she doesn't believe in banal scripts.

Konkona Sen Sharma on her upcoming films and why she doesn't believe in banal scripts.

Konkona Sen Sharma on her upcoming films and why she doesn't believe in banal scripts.

Rajat Kapoor is a very busy man. Donning two hats simultaneously is not a cakewalk for sure.

Artistes and writers are vocal against the Left Front now. Does the protest reflect in their work? Suvaprasanna's painting titled Real Face Artistes and writers are vocal against the Left Front now.

LALGARH : A first information report was filed by police on Wednesday at the Lalgarh thana against film personality Aparna Sen and seven other persons for violating Section 144 of the Cr.

BERTOLD Brecht, the leftist German playwright, was brilliant enough to give cynicism a good name.

June 24, 2009 Visionmp.com news service A CPI-Maoist spokesperson Gour Chakrabarti was arrested on Tuesday night in Kolkata from the office of a TV news channel.

West Bengal's Left Front government and a section of intellectuals opposed to it seem headed for a stand-off as a top bureaucrat Thursday said those who visited trouble-torn Lalgarh by violating prohibitory orders were liable to be arrested.

A paramilitary soldier positions himself on a tree at Jhitka near Lalgarh in the West Midnapore district, some 170km from Kolkata, yesterday.

Their meeting with PSBPC leader Mr Chatradhar Mahato saw the latter distancing himself from the Maoists.

Maoist extremists were willing to talk to West Bengal's Communist government in the presence of the 'intelligentsia' if the operation against them in Lalgarh were stopped, a senior leader said Tuesday as forces continued to sanitise the area and prepare for the next phase of security action in nearby Ramgarh.

The intellectuals, under the banner of Swajan, have been bitterly opposed to the state's Left Front government.