Bengali Cinema at Calcuttaweb

Bengali Cine News, reviews, actors, actresses, movies, directors information at Calcuttaweb.

In 1897, films were shown for the first time in Calcutta. In 1898, the multinational Warwick Trading Co. commissioned 'Panorama of Calcutta' newsreel. Couple of years later, Hiralal Sen from north Calcutta started making films at the Classic Theatres.

A number of film and acting talents moved to Mumbai(Bombay) film world(popularly known as Bollywood) and became successful. Here are few of them to mention: Pradipkumar, Sharmila Tagore, Biswajit Chatterjee, Rakhi Biswas(Gulzar), Jaya Bhaduri(Bachchan), Mousumi Chatterjee, Mithun Chakrabarty.

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Date added : September 28th, 2009