Shoojit Sircar, a prolific filmmaker himself, has been an ardent fan of Bimal Toy's Devdas. The cult classic starring Dilip Kumar as Devdas, Suchitra Sen as Paro and Vyjayanthimala as Chandramukhi ...

The story follows Devdas Mukherjee, a wealthy law graduate who returns from London to marry his childhood sweetheart, Paro. However, his family rejects the match due to class differences. Heartbroken, ...

Devdas (2002) was the first mainstream Indian film to be invited to the Cannes Film Festival. Though it is based on a novel written in 1917, the film is set in Calcutta in the 1930s. (And the novel ...

One of the more fascinating elements of exploring various national cinemas is the exposure to wildly different sets of genre conventions. The aggressive experimentation of French New Wave, for example ...