Four decades after his death, Bengal’s greatest star still commands a devotion that borders on the religious. Uttam Kumar was revelatory in Satyajit Ray’s Nayak (1966), one of his most iconic performances. Every year, in the month of September, when Uttam Kumar was born in Ahiritola in the northern parts of Kolkata, and also in July, when he passed away, people across West Bengal go wild with celebrations in tribute to Uttam Kumar though he passed away in 1980, more than five

Separated by 55 years and radically different philosophies, Satyajit Ray and Christopher Nolan found remarkably similar cinematic ways to make the elusive nature of time visible. A still from Ray's biting classic Mahapurush (1965) “Gentlemen think alike!” is the proverb that resonated in connection to what Nolan recently said while praising Satyajit Ray's work; and with cinema’s timeless exploration of scientific and philosophical concepts. Let me direct you to a piece of dia