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Namte Namte
''Namte Namte'' (English: Into the Abyss) is a 2013 Bengali film. The film was directed by Rana Basu and produced under the banner of 3 eDots Productions. The film's music was composed by Sidhu. The film was released on 8 February 2013. The film is based on the story ''Trata'', written by Dibyendu Palit. Plot The film revolves around a typical middle-class family of Bengal. Ananda (Rajatava Dutta) is a very meek guy and is scared of confronting people. He is a peace-loving man and very shy in nature. He works as a clerk in a government office. His wife Seema ( Roopa Ganguly) is however a spirited woman and remains tense about him and her family. They have a college-going daughter Dolon (Sanchita) and a son, Suman who studies in Class 9 and stays in the school hostel. To get rid of their daily ordeal, Ananda asks for help from a small-time goon Tota a.k.a. Ganesh Halder (Saswata Chatterjee). Tota is the leader of the club in their locality. The club members call themselves as ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dibyendu Palit
Dibyendu Palit (; 5 March 1939 – 3 January 2019) was a Bengali novelist, poet, and short-story writer. His oeuvre consists of some forty novels, twenty-five short-story collections, ten poetry collections and several essays. He was senior assistant-editor of ''Anandabazar Patrika'', until his retirement in 2000. He received the 1990 Bankim Purashkar for the novel ''Dheu'', and in 1998 won the Sahitya Akademi Award for ''Anubhav''. His literary career began with the short story ''Chhandapatan'' published in the Sunday supplement of ''Anandabazar Patrika'' in 1955, and with ''Niyam'' appearing in '' Desh'' the next year. Biography Dibyendu Palit was born in Bhagalpur, Bihar, to Bagalacharan and Niharbala Palit. He grew up amid the violence of post-Partition riots—an experience that later influenced much of his writing. He developed an early interest in literature and, while in college, won first prize in a short story competition organized by Bangiya Sahitya Parishad. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajatava Dutta
Rajatava Dutta (b. 11 August 1967) is an Indian actor who appears in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali, Hindi cinema, Hindi and English-language Indian films, English films. He is often regarded as one of the most celebrated and respected Bengali actors of his generation. In a career spanning over three decades, on one hand he has received popularity for playing negative characters in commercially successful films like ''MLA Fatakeshto'','' Challenge (2009 film), Challenge'', ''Paglu'', ''Boss: Born to Rule'' etc. and on the other hand he has gained critical praise for his versatile acting performances in critically acclaimed films like ''Paromitar Ekdin'', ''Open Tee Bioscope'', ''Bogla Mama Jug Jug Jiyo'' etc. and in the web-series ''Byadh''. He has been a judge on the Zee Bangla reality show ''Mirakkel''. Early life From Ballygunge Government High School Rajatava passed Madhyamik in 1983, passed Higher Secondary from Goenka College of Commerce and Business Administration in 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roopa Ganguly
Roopa Ganguly (born 25 November 1966) is an Indian actress, playback singer and politician. She is best known for her portrayal of Draupadi in B R Chopra's hit television series '' Mahabharat''. Often promoted as the Tollywood's answer to Bollywood's Shabana Azmi, she is known for her versatility and accent adaptation. She has worked with directors such as Mrinal Sen, Aparna Sen, Goutam Ghose and Rituparno Ghosh. She is a trained Rabindra Sangeet vocalist and a classical dancer. She received several awards including a National Award and two BFJA Awards. In October 2016, she was nominated as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha by the President of India. She served as the President of BJP Mahila Morcha in West Bengal. She served as the General Secretary and the Vice-President for the West Bengal Motion Picture Artistes' Forum, a body representing cine artistes. Her films have commulatively grossed more than US$100 million worldwide. Her first acting assignment was Bijoy Chatt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saswata Chatterjee
Saswata Chatterjee (born 19 December 1970) is an Indian actor known for his work in Bengali cinema and television, with appearances in Hindi films. The son of actor Subhendu Chatterjee, he began his career with a Hindi television series directed by Saibal Mitra, based on Samaresh Majumdar's ''Kaalpurush''. He gained recognition for portraying Topshe in a ''Feluda''-based television series directed by Sandip Ray. Chatterjee has received critical acclaim for his performances in several Bengali films, notably for his role in ''Meghe Dhaka Tara'' (2013), where he played a character inspired by Ritwik Ghatak. He achieved widespread recognition for his role as Bob Biswas, a contract killer, in Sujoy Ghosh's Hindi thriller '' Kahaani'' (2012). Personal life Saswata Chatterjee was born on 19 December 1970 to Subhendu Chatterjee, a noted Bengali actor. He lives in Kolkata and is married to Mohua, a teacher. They have a daughter together. Career Chatterjee started his career with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhaswar Chattopadhyay
Bhaswar Chatterjee (born 8 March 1975) is a Bengali film and television actor. He attended high school at South Point School and graduated in bioscience from Asutosh College. Before getting his first job in GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals in 1996, he obtained a diploma in marketing and sales management from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. In 1998, his first appearance on television was in ''Jaltaranga'' followed by Bishnu Pal Chowdhury's ''Kanakanjali''. Chatterjee established himself in the Bollywood industry with '' The Legend of Bhagat Singh'' in 2002 by playing Batukeshwar Dutt, and with the daily soap ''Janmobhumi'' in 2003. , he has appeared in 57 daily soaps and a total of 111 serials in the Bengali language. He was a member of Indian censor board from 2014 to 2017. Early life He was a student of South Point School for his high school years, and graduated in bioscience from Asutosh College. Before getting his first job in GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals in 1996, he obtained a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snehasish Ganguly
Snehasish Chandidas Ganguly (born 11 June 1968) is a former Indian first-class cricketer and president of the Cricket Association of Bengal. Snehasish had a career with Bengal which spanned ten years, however, he did not play internationally like his younger brother Sourav Ganguly. After retiring from cricket, he focused on his family's printing business. Over the past 15 years, Ganguly has taken NK Gossain Printers and grown it into one of the best-known printing companies in the region. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Lux. In 1995, Ganguly married Mohiniyatam dancer Momm Ganguly. The couple had a daughter, Sneha, in 1998. He became the president of the Cricket Association of Bengal The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) is the governing body for cricket in the Indian state of West Bengal. It owns the Eden Gardens stadium in Kolkata, where its headquarters are located. CAB is a full member of the Board of Control for Cr ... in October 2022. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations averag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and definition The term is descended from Latin, ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together". The earliest use of the term in a musical context given by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' is from Thomas Morley's 1597 ''A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music'', where he says "Some wil be good descanters ..and yet wil be but bad composers". "Composer" is a loose term that generally refers to any person who writes music. More specifically, it is often used to denote people who are composers by occupation, or those who work in the tradition of Western classical music. Writers of exclusively or primarily songs may be called composers, but since the 20th century the terms ' songwriter' or ' singer-songwriter' are more often used, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Bengal
West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of as of 2011. The population estimate as of 2023 is 99,723,000. West Bengal is the List of states and union territories of India by population, fourth-most populous and List of states and union territories of India by area, thirteenth-largest state by area in India, as well as the List of first-level administrative divisions by population, eighth-most populous country subdivision of the world. As a part of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, it borders Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north. It also borders the Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar, Sikkim and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata, the List of metropolitan areas in India, third-largest metropolis, and List of cities in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda () (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. Vivekananda was a major figure in the introduction of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world, and is credited with raising interfaith awareness and elevating Hinduism to the status of a major world religion. Born into an aristocratic Bengali Kayastha family in Calcutta (now Kolkata), Vivekananda showed an early inclination towards religion and spirituality. At the age of 18, he met Ramakrishna and became his devoted disciple, and later took up the vows of a '' sannyasin'' (renunciate). Following Ramakrishna’s death, Vivekananda travelled extensively across the Indian subcontinent as a wandering monk, gaining first-hand knowledge of the often harsh living conditions endured by the Indian masses under then British India, he sought a way to alleviate their suffering by establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loveria
''Loveria'' is a 2013 Bengali action comedy romance film. It was directed by Raja Chanda and produced under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films and Surinder Films. It is a remake of the 2009 Telugu film ''Bumper Offer'' starring Sairam Shankar and Bindu Madhavi. Plot Aditya (Soham Chakraborty) is from a middle-class family but has the degree of a computer engineer. But because of a recession he runs a small car garage called Biswakarma Garage where he is the car-mechanic. Aditya's mother (Tulika Basu) is eagerly waiting for the chance to get his son married. One day, while Aditya was returning from his garage, some goons beat him up and broke his leg without any reason. Later, after Aditya is released from the nursing home, he goes to the goon and finds out who told them to beat him up. The goons tell him that Sweety (Puja Bose) told them to beat him up. Aditya ask Sweety why she did so and Sweety says that the goons beat him up by mistake and actually wanted to beat up anothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
