It was Assamese filmmaker Pramathesh Chandra Barua who turned Sarat Chandra's Devdas into a movie in 1935 and made the tragic hero a legend. The Bengali film in which Barua played the eponymous hero ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract As women's education became an indisputable part of the liberal modernist agenda of nationalism, in 20th century Bengal, nationalist ...

Manas Mukul Pal's Chandikatha, a period drama set in 1950s Bengal, explores the themes of caste discrimination and friendship. The film portrays the lives of two boys from marginalized communities as ...