'I Don't Know What I Am Going To Do'

The political heat in West Bengal has been giving the rising mercury levels serious competition since the high court order. IMAGE: Upper Primary (2016) job aspirants protest in Kolkata on......

Basu told me to head '08 trust vote: Somnath

Former Lok Sabha Speaker and expelled Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Somnath Chatterjee on Monday said Jyoti Basu, whom he considered as his 'political guru', had asked him to preside over......

No govt has lost a no-trust vote in Lok Sabha so far

No confidence motions have been moved in the Lok Sabha 27 times in the past, and all of them have either been defeated or remained inconclusive, data compiled by a think tank shows. IMAGE: Prime......

Somnath Chatterjee: Distinguished Parliamentarian who wore many hats

The 89-year-old leader was expelled by the CPI-M after he refused to step down from his position as Speaker holding that the post is above any party politics. IMAGE: Then President APJ Abdul Kalam......

The musical brilliance of Basu Chatterjee

'Songs are a commercial compromise.''I had to invent tricks to fit songs into my films.' IMAGE: Jaya Bachchan and Anil Dhawan in the song Yeh Jeevan Hai from Basu Chatterjee's Piya Ka Ghar. Basu......

'I Wanted Waheeda Rehman For Ankur'

'I don't think Waheeda had the confidence that I could pull it off, so she said no.' IMAGE: Shabana Azmi in Ankur. Shyam Benegal started his film career with the brilliant Ankur. The 1974 film not......

Classic revisited: Basu Chatterjee's 1982 sex comedy, Shaukeen

In our special series re-visiting great Hindi film classics, we look back at Ashok Kumar, Utpal Dutt and A K Hangal starrer Shaukeen (1982). Of all the moments in The Lunchbox that stayed with me......

Basu Chatterjee was the Master of Hope

'I always felt that Basu Chatterjee was a kind, gentle, man who truly believed that in directing films like Chhoti Si Baat, he was impacting our lives,' remembers Aseem Chhabra.'He seemed to be on......