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Rita Koiral
Rita Koiral or Rita Kayral (3 July 1959 – 19 November 2017) was an Indian Bengali actress, known for her television and film roles. She appeared in several soap opera roles, often as villains and often opposite Monami Ghosh. Directors she worked with included Prabhat Roy, Agnidev Chatterjee and Aparna Sen. She also acted in '' jatra'' (a form of folk theatre). Koiral was born in Kolkata, and was still living there at the time of her death. She obtained a BA and an MA in accountancy from Calcutta University. Later she joined Durdarshan Kendra Calcutta as its newsreader. Her first marriage was an arranged marriage to Soumitra Bannerjee, an actor who died in the year 2000 at the age of 46. Famous actor Jahar Ganguly was her maternal grandfather. She was estranged from her second husband, by whom she had one daughter named Amrita. She also had one son who died at an early age. Career In Anupam Kher's 2000 film ''Bariwali'', Rita Koiral provided the voice for another Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calcutta
Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary Financial centre, financial and Commercial area, commercial centre of Eastern India, eastern and Northeast India, northeastern India. Kolkata is the list of cities in India by population, seventh most populous city in India with an estimated city proper population of 4.5 million (0.45 crore) while its metropolitan region Kolkata Metropolitan Area is the List of million-plus agglomerations in India, third most populous metropolitan region of India with a metro population of over 15 million (1.5 crore). Kolkata is regarded by many sources as the cultural capital of India and a historically and culturally significant city in the historic Bengal, region of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirron Kher
Kirron Anupam Kher (also Kiran ''Indian Express'', 12 May 2002. or, Kiron, born 14 June 1952) is an Indian politician, actress, television personality, singer, and entertainment producer. She is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and in May 2014 was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament, from Chandigarh. Through her film career, she is the recipient of two National Film Awards and a Lux Style Award, and has received four Filmfare Award nominations. Early life Kiran Thakar Singh Sandhu was born on 14 June 1952 in Bangalore, Mysore State, India into a Punjabi Jat family and grew up in Chandigarh. During the period of her first marriage to Gautam Berry, she was known as 'Kiran Berry'. When she married Anupam Kher, she resumed her maiden name and also added her latest husband's surname, being known as 'Kiran Thakar Singh Kher'. In later life, she developed a firm belief in numerology, and in 2003 (aged 51), she changed her name from "Kiran" to "Kir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chirodini Tumi Je Amar
''Chirodini ... Tumi Je Amar'' (English: ''You Are Mine Eternally''), also known by the initialism ''CTJA'' is a 2008 Indian Bengali language romantic drama film written and directed by Raj Chakraborty, making his directional debut and produced by Shrikant Mohta under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films. It is a remake of the 2004 Tamil film '' Kaadhal''. The film stars Rahul Banerjee and Priyanka Sarkar in the lead, while Rudranil Ghosh, Geeta Dey, Tamal Roychowdhury, Rita Koiral, Tulika Basu, Supriyo Dutta, Prasun Gain, Parthasarathi Chakraborty, Debranjan Nag, Pradip Dhar, Subhomoy Chatterjee and Pradip Bhattacharya played supporting roles. Sabyasachi Chakraborty gave his voice in the film, playing the narrator and Dev made a cameo appearance in the song "''Pante Taali''". The soundtrack of the film was composed by Jeet Gannguli, while the screenplay and dialogues were by N.K Salil. It plots a tragic love story between a 18 years old student Pallabi and a two-wheeler me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bor Asbe Ekhuni
''Bor Asbe Ekhuni'' () is a 2008 Bengali language, Bengali film by Rangan Chakraborty. It stars Jisshu Sengupta, Koel Mallick and Kanchan Mullick. The music is by Jeet Gannguli and Indradeep Dasgupta. Plot Mitil, a small-town girl from Siliguri decides to go to Kolkata to become a radio jockey. Her father supports her decision, but her mother opposes it and constantly asks her daughter to get married. She arrives in Kolkata and moves into a hostel for women. Over there she makes a great friend in Bibi, but at the same time she is not comfortable sharing a room with other people and decides to look for a house. She encounters the usual problem of people rejecting her for being a single woman, but a widow agrees to rent a floor to Mitil, but Mitil lied to her that she is getting married and that her would be husband would be joining her soon. So she has to find herself a fake husband to present him before the landlady. One day Mitil and Bibi land up at a bar cum restaurant where t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajmohol
''Rajmohol'' is a 2005 Indian Bengali-language horror drama film starring Prosenjit Chatterjee, Abhishek Chatterjee, Anu Choudhury, Rachana Banerjee, Biplab Chatterjee, Subhasish Mukherjee, and Bharat Kaul. It is a remake of the 1993 Malayalam film '' Manichitrathazhu'' with slight plot changes involving not only awareness of split personality disease but also the existence of Chandramukhi's vengeful spirit. Plot A married couple from Kolkata Kolkata, also known as Calcutta ( its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary ..., Deboshree and her husband Sumit, move to a village. There, they move into a supposedly haunted mansion which belonged to Sumit's ancestors. Deboshree then goes into the restricted room and finds out that there was a dancer named Chandramukhi who had been killed by a '' zamindar'' (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paromitar Ek Din
''Paromitar Ek Din'' ( ''Paromitar Êkdin'', lit. "One day of Paromita's", English title: ''House of Memories'') is a 2000 Indian Bengali drama film directed by Aparna Sen. Plot The film explores the dual themes of friendship and loneliness. The film starts at Sanaka's funeral where Paromita is invited too. Paromita goes into a flashback where it is shown that she was previously married to Sanaka's younger son, Biru. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law duo, Sanaka ( Aparna Sen) and Paromita ( Rituparna Sengupta), despite differences in age, backgrounds and temperaments, build a strong bond. But when Paromita's marriage to Biru breaks down, social mores prevent the women from remaining close friends. While Paromita marries Rajeev Shrivastav and begins a new life, her mother-in-law, Sanaka, is left heartbroken and alone and eventually falls seriously ill. When Paromita learns of her friend's deterioration, she is compelled to flout convention, and returns to nurse Sanaka on he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiban Niye Khela
''Jibon Niye Khela'' ''(''English: ''Playing with life)'' is a 1999 Indian Bengali language political action film directed by Anjan Choudhury. The film attained mass attention as it deals with the corruption in Healthcare sector of West Bengal. The film features Ranjit Mallick, Biplab Chatterjee, Manoj Mitra, Debashree Roy, Subhendu Chatterjee, Chumki Choudhury, Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Arjun Chakraborty, Lokesh Ghosh and Rina Choudhury in lead roles, while Supriya Devi did a guest appearance. The music of the film was composed by Tapan Chakraborty, background music was scored and lyrics were penned by Leela Choudhury. Plot The movie revolves around an imaginary village called Dharampur where Dr. Subhankar Sanyal (Ranjit Mallick) arrives as the head doctor of a Dharampur State Hospital, who is a specialist in each field. He tries to break the previous rules made in an agreement between the Super, (Manoj Mitra), and Dr. Sen, (Haradhan Bandopadhyay), because of which he faces many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunda (1999 Film)
''Gunda'' is a genus of moths of the family Bombycidae (silk moths). The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1862. It is primarily an Oriental genus, found in India, China and South-east Asia. Species *''Gunda aroa'' Bethune-Baker, 1904 *''Gunda engonata'' (Swinhoe, 1899) *''Gunda javanica'' (Moore, 1872) *''Gunda ochracea'' Walker, 1862 *''Gunda proxima'' Roepke, 1924 *''Gunda subnotata'' (Walker, 1859) *''Gunda thwaitesii ''Gunda thwaitesii'' is a species of moth in the family Bombycidae. It was described by Frederic Moore in 1883 and is found in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylo ...'' (Moore, 1883) References Bombycidae Bombycoidea genera Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist) {{Bombycidae-stub hu:Gunda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asukh
''Asukh'' () is a 1999 Indian Bengali feature film directed by Rituparno Ghosh. The film was awarded in the Best Feature Film in Bengali category at the 46th National Film Awards. Plot Rohini asks her ex-boyfriend if he remembers her. Although he says yes, she doesn't believe him and instead asks for the medicine box and takes three to five sleeping pills. Even after Aniruddha forbids her, she takes them all, saying that it should not affect him. The reason for this bitterness is revealed. Aniruddha had left her for another girl named Mrittika. Rohini was a famous film star and her love for her man was unblemished. She had brought Mrittika into the industry, and suffered Caesar's wounds when Aniruddha started an affair with her. When Mrittika and Aniruddha started coming close, Rohini had confronted Aniruddha several times to tell the truth but he always tried to hide the fact and that had hurt her more. While she was facing such turbulent times in her life and wanted to be all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daughters Of This Century
''Daughters of This Century'' is a 1995 Indian Hindi anthology film directed by Tapan Sinha. The film, comprising of six segments, has its fourth segment based on the Bengali novel ''Ei Daho'' (1961) by Gour Kishore Ghosh while rest of the segments are based on five Bengali short stories ⸺ '' Jibita o Mrita'' (1904) by Rabindranath Tagore, ''Abhagir Swarga'' (1918) by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, ''Satgharia'' (1976) by Prafulla Roy, ''Kaanch'' (1984) by Dibyendu Palit and the last one by Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay. Each segment runs for 30 minutes. The film delves into the plight of Indian women in the 20th century. It stars Shabana Azmi, Jaya Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit, Pallavi Joshi, Deepa Sahi, Nandita Das, Sulabha Deshpande, Gyanesh Mukherjee, Debashree Roy, Mamata Shankar, Pankaj Kapoor, Milind Gunaji, Kaushik Sen and Jeet. Despite an ensemble cast, the film was a critical and commercial failure. Most of the critics stated that Sinha failed to weave a strong screenplay. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
