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Actress Swaroopa Ghosh who is best known for her performance in `Piku,` `Vicky Donor,` `Pink,` `Madras Cafe` among others, will be featuring in Indo-British Co-Production film `A Game of Two Halves` which is set to release on 23rd February, 2024. The film follows the transformative coming-of-age journey of Sanjay, a young British student who learns about his true self while teaching soccer to underprivileged children in the dusty fields of Hyderabad, India. It is directed by British Asian filmmaker Khayam Khan,…

Few outside West Bengal are aware that filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh was not only an award-winning filmmaker and actor but also a writer of beautiful memory pieces, profiles, editorials, short stories, song lyrics in Bengali, over which his command was incredible. On being given the responsibility of editing Anandbazar Patrika’s film fortnightly, Anandalok, he gave it a new look. Some years later, he took over the editorship of Robbar, the Sunday supplement of noted Bengali daily, Shongbad Protidin. It would often be sold…

In the popular imagination, Bollywood in the 1980s was all about garish aesthetics, frenetic editing, double entendres, and melodrama underlined by blaring sound effects. You might think of Sridevi wearing shiny outfits and shimmying amid matkas or Mithun karate chopping goons. The overwhelming feeling is that of cinematic flash and trash. As Baradwaj Rangan has noted in an essay “ perceived wisdom is that Hindi cinema in the 1980s sucked”.  Mithun Chakraborty in Disco Dancer (Film still) 392pp, ₹599;…

Accenture has identified a set of use cases across 19 industries where generative AI can deliver significant results, Bhaskar Ghosh, global chief strategy officer at Accenture told ET in an interview. He added that even as Accenture, and its customers, are both excited about the potential of using generative AI, large language models and generative AI cannot be applied to every practice. Internally, the company has identified over 300 use cases where generative AI can have a tangible impact. This is across aspects like…

Disco struck Bombay cinema like a viral fever in the early 1980s. Swinging strobe lights, loose-limbed dancers, shimmery outfits, and hysterical synth-driven rhythms — the disco song was obligatory in the mainstream movie. Even a vegan family romance like Saajan Mere Main Saajan Ki (1980) found a way to incorporate a disco number. Ashok Kumar, then approaching 60, and Shashikala, touching 50, jived and crooned “Hi honey” at a night club. The song was peddled as the film’s special attraction. Horror films (Hotel) and…

Global companies are counting on the Indian tech sector to offer an alternative to Chinese telecom solutions in a geopolitically uncertain environment, which will also be a driver for the 5G enterprise ecosystem in the country, industry executives said. The Indian IT services industry will play a significant role in providing such solutions by creating new revenue models and developing the requisite talent ecosystem to drive enterprise 5G use cases, the experts, who were speaking during a roundtable with ET and technology…

When a filmmaker embarks on a journey into the past to write a book on a great actor, the challenges for the reviewer are many. The first is getting past the awe with which the author approaches his subject. This is understandable considering the author Suman Ghosh is writing about Soumitra Chatterjee, one of the greatest actors of Indian cinema. The second challenge is to discover if the author has been able to view his subject, who died before this project began, objectively. The third is to figure out if a sentimental…

The Indian tech industry generated $103 billion in revenue and directly employed 2,07,000 people in the US last year, with an average wage of $106,360 -- witnessing a 22% employment growth since 2017, a new Nasscom report showed on Wednesday.The direct impact of the Indian tech industry has helped the US economy generate a total of $396 billion in sales to date, supporting 1.6 million jobs and contributing over $198 billion to the American economy -- larger than the combined economies of 20 US states in 2021, according to…

A quarter of a century since his last screen appearance and two decades after he died, film buffs still recall Ashok Kumar’s (1911–2001) multiple contributions to Indian cinema. Starting as a reluctant actor in 1936, his career, that spanned 64 years and 350 movies, spanned the evolution of cinema in the country. Launched opposite Devika Rani in Jeevan Naiya, Kumar went on to become Hindi cinema’s first super star. Such was his popular appeal that, for seven continuous years, Roxy Cinema in Bombay showed only Ashok Kumar…

In The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Amitav Ghosh discusses how contemporary literary fiction has failed to address climate change: “When I try to think of writers whose imaginative work has communicated a more specific sense of the accelerating changes in our environment, I find myself at a loss; of literary novelists writing in English only a handful of names come to mind… The literary mainstream, even as it has become more engagé on many fronts, remains just as unaware of the crisis on our…