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Hemanter Pakhi
''Hemanter Pakhi'' (; English title: Autumn Bird (2002)) is an Indian Bengali feature film directed by Urmi Chakraborty. Plot A Bengali housewife takes up a writing career after 23 years of marriage. She is introduced to a new world and new friends. Her work gets appreciated, and this in turn brings a new twist in her life. She starts discovering her husband and her beloved children in a new light. This creates trouble in her family, and she sacrifices her dream for the sake of her family. Cast * Tanushree Shankar * Parambrata Chatterjee * Soumitra Chatterjee * Santu Mukhopadhyay * Swastika Mukherjee * Mamata Shankar * Biswajit Chakraborty * Bodhisattwa Majumdar * Soma Chakraborty * Koushik Bhattacharya Awards * National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali The National Film Award for Best Bengali Feature Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for feature ...
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Suchitra Bhattacharya
Suchitra Bhattacharya (10 January 1950 – 12 May 2015) was an Indian novelist, known for works including ''Hemanter Pakhi'', ''Kachher Manush'', ''Aleek Shukh'', ''Icche'' and ''Kacher Dewal''. During her career as a writer, she composed over 20 novels and many short stories. Her novel ''Dahan'' was adapted into the 1997 film ''Dahan (1997 film), Dahan'', and her novels ''Iccher Gach'', ''Alik Sukh'' and ''Ramdhanu Rang'' were adapted into films by Shiboprosad Mukherjee, and her novel ''Onnyo Bwasanto'' was adapted into a television film by Aditi Roy. Early life and education Suchitra Bhattacharya was born in 1950 in Bhagalpur, Bihar. She was interested in writing from her childhood. Bhattacharya graduated from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated undergraduate women's college of the historic University of Calcutta, in Kolkata. Career Having taken many odd jobs in her early youth, she finally joined the public service, leaving in 2004 to become a full-time writer. She st ...
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Cinema Of West Bengal
Cinema of West Bengal, also known as Tollywood or Bengali cinema, is the segment of Cinema of India, Indian cinema, dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Bengali language widely spoken in the state of West Bengal. It is based in the Tollygunge region of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The origins of the nickname Tollywood, a portmanteau of the words Tollygunge and Cinema of the United States, Hollywood, dates back to 1932. It was a historically important film industry, at one time the centre of Indian film production. The Bengali film industry is known for producing many of Cinema of India, Indian cinema's most critically acclaimed global Parallel Cinema and art films, with several of its filmmakers gaining prominence at the National Film Awards, Indian National Film Awards as well as international acclaim. Ever since Satyajit Ray's ''Pather Panchali (film), Pather Panchali'' (1955) was awarded Best Human Document at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, Bengali films ...
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Best Bengali Feature Film National Film Award Winners
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Films Set In Kolkata
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. Etymology and alternative terms The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including "picture", "picture show", "moving picture", "photoplay", and "flick". The most common term in the United States is "movie", while in Europe, "film" is preferred. Archaic terms include "animated pictures" and "animated photography". "Flick" is, in general a slang term, first recorded in 1926. It originates in the verb flicker, owing to the flickering appearance of early films. ...
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Bengali-language Indian Films
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (, , ), is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is native to the Bengal region (Bangladesh, India's West Bengal and Tripura) of South Asia. With over 242 million native speakers and another 43 million as second language speakers as of 2025, Bengali is the sixth most spoken native language and the seventh most spoken language by the total number of speakers in the world. Bengali is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. It is the second-most widely spoken language in India. It is the official language of the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of Assam. It is also the second official language of the Indian state of Jharkhand since September 2011. It is the most widely spoken language in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the B ...
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2000s Bengali-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the e ...
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2002 Films
2002 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country- and genre- specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures celebrated their 90th anniversaries in 2002. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 2002 by worldwide gross are as follows: 2002 was the first year to see three films cross the eight-hundred-million-dollar milestone, surpassing the previous year's record of two eight-hundred-million-dollar films. It also surpasses the previous year's record of having the most ticket sales in a single year (fueled by the success of various sequels and the first ''Spider-Man'' movie). Events * March 1 — Paramount Pictures reveals a new-on screen logo that was used until December 2011 to celebrate its 90th anniversary. * May – '' The Pianist'' directed by Roman Polanski wins the "Palme d'Or" at the Cannes Film Festival. * May 3–5 ...
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National Film Award For Best Feature Film In Bengali
The National Film Award for Best Bengali Feature Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus). Since the 70th National Film Awards, the name was changed to "Best Bengali Feature Film". The National Film Awards, established in 1954, are the most prominent film awards in India that merit the best of the Indian cinema. The ceremony also presents awards for films in various regional languages. Awards for films in seven regional language ( Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu) started from 2nd National Film Awards which were presented on 21 December 1955. Three awards of "President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film", "Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film" and "Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film" were instituted. The later two certificate awards were ...
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Biswajit Chakraborty
Biswajit Chakraborty, (born 1 May 1958) is an Indian film actor who appears predominantly in Bengali movies. He was born in Kolkata, West Bengal. His debut movie was '' Sunya Theke Suru'' directed by Ashoke Viswanathan. He has acted in more than a 100 movies including ''Autograph'', '' Bye Bye Bangkok'', '' Bhooter Bhabishyat'' and Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, is primarily produced in Mumbai. The popular term Bollywood is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (former name of Mumbai) and "Cinema of the United States, Hollywood". The in ... movie '' Kahaani 2''. Filmography Television series * Maa....Tomay Chara Ghum Ashena (19 September 2009 - 3 August 2014) * Soudaminir Sansar (17 June 2019 to 2021) * Mithai (4 January 2021 to 9 June 2023) * Didi No.1 * Ranga Bou(12 December 2022 to 16 December 2023) * Sandhya Tara (11 June 2023 to present) * Shyama (11 September 2023 to 3 December 2023) * Anurager Chhowa (2023) * Ab ...
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Debojyoti Mishra
Debojyoti Mishra (born 30 April 1963 at Kolkata) is an Indian music director and film composer. He became popular with his minimalist classical compositions for the Hindi film '' Raincoat'', directed by Rituparno Ghosh. He also worked on Bengali films, ''Chaturanga and Sesher Kobita'', directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. He composed songs for the Bengali film '' Autograph'' starring Prasenjit Chatterjee, Nandana Sen and Indraneil Sengupta. Early years and career He had composed for Shakira Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll ( , ; born 2 February 1977) is a Colombian singer-songwriter. Referred to as the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of Latin Music", she has had a Cultural impact of Shakira, significant impact on the ... in a British production being directed by Enamul Karim. Filmography References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mishra, Debojyoti Indian film score composers Living people 1960 births University of Calcutta alumni Jingle composers People from Din ...
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Tanushree Shankar
Tanusree Shankar (born 16 March 1956) is an Indian dancer and choreographer. She is based in Kolkata, India. She was a leading dancer of the Ananda Shankar Centre for Performing Arts in the 1970s and 1980s. She also acted in various films, like The Namesake. Tanusree Shankar now leads the Tanusree Shankar Dance Company. She has evolved her own modern idiom by marrying traditional Indian dances with modern western ballet expressions. She has been inspired by her lineage as much by the folk and regional dance forms of India. She has drawn extensively from rich local Indian traditions such as the " Thang-ta" ( Manipuri Sword dance). She travels with her troupe extensively around the world. Her last notable productions include ''Uttaran'' (Upliftment of the soul) and ''Chirantan'' (The eternal) which is based on Rabindranath Tagore's music. Family Tanusree Shankar was born in Calcutta, her father was a doctor in Indian Army. Her husband, the late Ananda Shankar, was a mus ...
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Bengali Language
Bengali, also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Bangla (, , ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. It is native to the Bengal region (Bangladesh, India's West Bengal and Tripura) of South Asia. With over 242 million native speakers and another 43 million as second language speakers as of 2025, Bengali is the List of languages by number of native speakers, sixth most spoken native language and the List of languages by total number of speakers, seventh most spoken language by the total number of speakers in the world. Bengali is the Official language, official, National language, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. It is the second-most widely spoken scheduled languages of India, language in India. It is the official language of the Indian states of West ...
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