27th Kolkata International Film Festival will open with Satyajit Ray's Aranyer Din Ratri as a tribute to the filmmaker. KIFF will also pay tributes to Dilip Kumar, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Claude Carrier, Buddhadeb Dasgupta and Swatilekha Sengupta. WB CM Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate the festival virtually.
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Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Feb 27
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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 27, 2021
In 2003 India and Pakistan had signed a ceasefire agreement along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Kashmir region but this agreement had pretty much broken down in the recent years and there had been continuing violations and tensions on borders. There has been an important development on that front and Director Generals of Military Operations of India and Pakistan have issued a joint statement “Both sides agreed for strict observance of all agreements, understandings and cease firing along the Line of Control and all other sectors with effect from midnight 24/25 Feb 2021”. The agreement to observe a ceasefire and a return to the understanding of 2003 is a very positive development since there had been a long impasse and even a serious escalation leading to dramatic air combat between the two c
Peter Brook Brought the Mahabharata to the World
His Padma Shri is fully deserved but comes too late in his life.
Theatre and film director Peter Brook. Photo: YouTube screengrab
It was April of 1984. I was in bed with bad jaundice. In the newspapers, I had been following the search for a Krishna or Draupadi, for the international production of Peter Brookâs
The Mahabharata.
I knew of him only via theatre friends. They always spoke of him with reverence, as the master magician of 20th-century theatre. The papers reported that he was here for only one of these two characters, and that would be the only Indian in the cast. He was to travel to the usual cities, Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Calcutta and Bangalore. The then Czarina of culture, Pupul Jayakar, had a list of close to 200 âsuitableâ actors for auditions. And that script was followed.