Asim Bando's KOLKATA BLOG

async="" crossorigin="anonymous" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6973460484243747"> > Satyajit Ray? No. He's Jeetu Kamal. But he's playing role of Satyajit Ray in a Bengali movie 'Aparajito' (অপরাজিত) by Anik Dutta - who made earlier the film 'Bhooter Bhabishyat' (ভুতের ভবিষ্যত). Director Anik Dutta is now making the film 'Aparajito' in which Jeetu Kamal is playing the role of Satyajit Ray making the movie 'Pather Panchali'. So, it is the film in which Anik Dutta is showing how the shooting of 'Pather Panchali' was done. > Shooting of this new film 'Aparajito' has been done near Bolpur of Birbhum district. Now, shooting in Kolkata will be done - at Sisir Mancha, Nandan and some other places. /> Sayani Ghosh is playing the role of Bijoya Roy. Cinebuffs are expecting some good from this film. ...

Director Srijit Mukherjee has done the muhurat of his new Bangla film "Jatismar" at Firingi Kalibari of Bowbazar area with puja or ritual on 2 July, Tuesday. Actor Prosenjit and Swastika also performed the worship . Actor star Prosenjit will perform the role of Anthony Firingi in the movie which was really a entertainer. Uttam Kumar played earlier the role of Anthony Firingi. The temple of Kali is about 500 year's old. And not only the rituals, the temple played a significant role in the scenario. -- A. B.

Director Anurag Basu's latest Hindi film 'Barfi' was shoot partly in north Kolkata. Here in this picture, actor Ranbir Kapoor cycling through the age-old lanes of north Kolkata, named Dorji Para. The movie is slated for release on next Friday, 14 September. -- A. B.

As seen in the picture, the fans of superstar Shah Rukh Khan are crossing the river Leader hurriedly to see SRK on the spot of Kashmir where he is now busy with the shooting of veteran Yash Chopra's last directorial venture "Untitled Love Story". Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma are on the opposite of SRK. Shah Rukh Khan will shoot for this week there. -- A. B.

Raj Chakraborty shoot 'Mann Bawre' song at Victoria Memorial, Maidan and Prinsep Ghat with Sayoni, Srabanti and Ankush for his new Bangla movie 'Kanamachi', playback singers Shreya Ghoshal and Mohit Chauhan. Kolkata always a favourite city of Raj. And it is very difficult to shoot in the crowd of the city. So, it was a challenge for him. And he shoot with excellence as his fame of a director is charismatic. The story of 'Kanamachi' on the backdrop of Kolkata handling the issue of taxi fares for NRI's.-- A. B.

Tannishtha Chatterjee, the Bengali actress of international fame, now playing the role of Masha of famous Anna Karenina - director Joe Wright's magnum opus and now busy with the shooting of this film in Russia under unfavourable weather. She is giving her best to make her role look as authentic as possible. Tannishtha had to shoot at -40 degrees in Petrozavodsk, a small town 500 kms north of St. Petersburg. She recalled her experience as "surreal". "Everything turns into ice within seconds. People in this village don't drink water because it turns into ice. The sun rises at around 10am and sets by 4pm. In some of the shots I was just able to expose my lips and nose somehow. It seems like a miracle that we could shoot in that condition. I had no imagination of how it would be like." Petrozavodsk is a place in Khizi Island on lake Onega. The lake, one of the biggest in the world is completely frozen at this time of the year and the temperature r...