Soumendu Roy’s illustrious career as a cinematographer is decorated with a multitude of famed films including “Teen Kanya” (1961), “Ashani Sanket” (1973), “Shatranj Ke Khilari” (1977), “Ghare Baire” (1984), and “Charachar”, (1994), amongst many others.
Sahitya Akademi Award-winning author KR Meera explains the much-touted word which often, unjustifiably, gets a bad rap, and on writing about women and publishing.
Known as one of a rare breed of filmmakers in the past few decades of Bengali cinema, Dasgupta has been a believer more in the power of images than the content of the ‘story’.