@rdb : your comments clearly shows your choice of south indian movies. If someone is to make a comment on hindi movies watching 'call girl', 'kaatil jawani' and the like, then its better to shrug off and read ahead. There is a lot to south indian movies than navel shows, songs and landscapes. Sad that you have a very narrow set of movies to decide from.

Raghuraman honestly speaking south indian films...Are tooooooooooooo cheap...I do not understand the fascination of the south indian directors with the navel...There is tooooooooooooo much of flesh in south indian movies...Except few good songs...Nothing is great about south indian movies.

Raghuraman honestly speaking south indian films...Are tooooooooooooo cheap...I do not understand the fascination of the south indian directors with the navel...There is tooooooooooooo much of flesh in south indian movies...Except few good songs...Nothing is great about south indian movies.

I do not understand after reading it why such comment. Parochialism is coming. It is simply to narative of high profile actreess is going to do some bengali film with femous director. It might be happening to other regional language. May be sometimes other writer, who has enough knowledge on that, will be reporting on that. Basically our mindset is full of regionalism,so you dig it in every story.

Hi,
it is good to see that bengali films are trying to come out of slump which started in mid-80s. Instead of encouraging this, i found out that few commenter are harsh or have foul-mouthed written. Now there are again some good directors in bengali films and i hope that they will provide us with some good movies.

thanks

Hi,
it is good to see that bengali films are trying to come out of slump which started in mid-80s. Instead of encouraging this, i found out that few commenter are harsh or have foul-mouthed written. Now there are again some good directors in bengali films and i hope that they will provide us with some good movies.

thanks

Doing regional films is a fad...Sometimes it is easier winning a national award that way. Also, it is more about the director and less about the language. Seriously we should celebrate good cinema good performances than indulge in this petty parochialism. However, bhanu athaiya is not a filmmaker.

No doubt that bengalis r more abt west bengal and anywhere else. Guys we all know that ben-galis r very great, intelligent etc etc but don't you think non-galis can also be the same or better.

@carlos, bhanu athaiya is the only oscar winner from india. Unfortunately, satyjit raysaheb got only a honorary award.



i find the author of this article to be very biased and in a way, he is right owing to the title of the article.



acting skills should be applauded immaterial of the language. I would have been happier had the author looked at other languages as well where movies with substance are created.



raveena tandon in daman, satta, tabu in chandini bar and how can you forget rekha in umrao jaan, dimple kapadia in rudaali and last but not least the versatile smitha patil. All of these actresses were known for their skills in movies in hindi.



if you want to have a look at other languages, even some of the malayalam movies are wonderful.

Mallika has charged a bomb for an item number down south, kangana is charging a crore for shedding her clothes for some tamil movie...End of conversation.