Bengali film directory is the only one archive of Bengali films (in English Language

English language

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). Published in March 1999, Nandan

Nandan (Kolkata)

Nandan is a government sponsored centre in Calcutta, India for facilitating film awareness and includes a few comparatively large screens housed in an impressively architectured building. It shares its site with the Rabindra Sadan cultural centre. The complex, besides being a modern cinema and...

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West Bengal

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 Film Centre (Calcutta). This directory book was edited by Ansu Sur and was compiled by Abhijit Goswami. There is all released Bengali

Bengali people

The Bengali people are an ethnic community native to the historic region of Bengal in South Asia. They speak Bengali , which is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages. In their native language, they are referred to as বাঙালী...

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Feature film

In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...

from 1917 to 1998 describe in short including detail cast and crew, director name, released date and released theater name.

Contents

• Acknowledgements iv
• A Note from the Editor v
• Reference vi
• Abbreviations vii
• Filmography
  • Silent era 1
  • Sound era 9
• Studios and Post-Production Centres 267
• Production Companies 269
• Distributions 271
• Show-houses 274
• Useful Addresses 277
• Film Societies 278
• Film Journals 280
• Film Books 281
• Index
  • Films 285
  • Directors 298
  • Actors and Actresses 303
• Appendix: Films released in 1998 315