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Mamata's Bangla film diktat and the Devdas syndrome

It was Assamese filmmaker Pramathesh Chandra Barua who turned Sarat Chandra's Devdas into a movie in 1935 and made the tragic hero a legend. The Bengali film in which Barua played the eponymous hero ...
The Hindu

Every theatre must screen a Bengali film daily at prime time: Bengal government

The West Bengal government passed an order on Wednesday (August 13, 2025), mandating the screening of at least one Bengali-language film daily in prime time slots in every theatre and multiplex in the ...