Basu Chatterjee
Basu Chatterjee (Bengali: বাসু চ্যাটার্জ্জী) (born 10 January 1930) is an Indian film director. His films are very similar to those of Hrishikesh ... More »
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'Jab Tak Hai Jaan' and 19 other film titles inspired by popular Hindi film songs
Ta Ra Rum Pum: Sung by Amit Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar the song is from the film Baton Baton Main, directed by Basu Chatterjee and starred Amol Palekar and Tina Munim. 5. Laaga Chunari Mein Daag: The song is from th film 'Dil Hi To Hai' directed by CL Rawal and PL Santoshi, starring Raj ... Read more »
The Hindu : Arts / Cinema : Chhoti Si Baat (1975)
Away from the collective hysteria which greeted films like “Sholay”, “Deewar”, “Muqaddar ka Sikander”, the likes of Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee carved out their own niche, putting together neat and clean entertainers targeted at the urban middle class viewers; the kind who ... Read more »
The Hindu : Arts / Cinema : Rajnigandha (1974)
There was Basu Chatterjee too. They all came up with films for the urban middle class viewers, films that had no drama, identifiable actors and a storyline that clicked with the viewers simply because of the treatment meted out by the director. In a long line of films like “Mili”... Read more »
Paan Singh Tomar bags National Award for best film
Union Minister Manish Tiwari receiving reports from Basu Chatterjee (right), Chairman for the Jury on Feature films, Aruna Raje Patil (left), Chairperson for the Jury on Non-feature film category and Swapan Mullick (second left), Chairman for the Jury on Best Writing on Cinema, after ... Read more »
Subhash Ghai's new discovery has already done her first film with me: Prosenjeet
It's a very sweet subject and Rupali Guha, who is veteran director Basu Chatterjee's daughter, has done a wonderful job," said Prosenjeet. 'Porichoi' was shot in Newcastle, Britain, over a period of a month in December 2012. "I had no qualms playing Indrani's father. If you look at our ... Read more »
My unreleased film 'Shoebite' is like my stillborn child: Shoojit Sircar
Right from Basu Bhattacharya, Satyajit Ray, Basu Chatterjee and Hrishikesh Mukherjee - the list of Bengalis (in Bollywood) is quite long. This year has been a good year for cinema for a lot of people, some different genre and a new kind of cinema is evolving. The Bongs have been quite ... Read more »
Why Bollywood stars shy away from sex comedies
"I remember Basu Chatterjee's 'Shaukeen' to be a good effort, but the same director couldn't recreate the magic with 'Gudgudee'," Ausaja told IANS. "I feel 'Vicky Donor' was a good effort, though conventionally it wasn't a sex comedy. So I feel there is tremendous scope for sex comedies... Read more »
'Woh phir nahi aate': Unpublished trivia about the rise and fall of Rajesh Khanna
His association with Basu Chatterjee in Chakravyu, the desi version of 39 Steps, bombed. It was unfortunate, as this was one film where Khanna had shed his mannerisms. Films like Prem Bandhan, Bandish, Ananchal again found him trying to play the young hero desperately, and one did not ... Read more »
Happy birthday Mithunda: We need you more than ever
Today, Mithun is a cultural icon but it has taken 35 years of back breaking work to earn the respect Mumbai usually reserves for Bengal's most loved artistes such as Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Tapan Sinha, Satyajit Ray, Biswajit Chatterjee, Kishore Kumar, Basu Chatterjee and Bimal Roy among ... Read more »
Raja Jani (1972)
The emergence of new cinema movement, and its own star-system; purposeful comedies; middle of the road cinema of Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee variety; ‘Curry-Western’ and a throw-back to semi-period feudal romance in a somewhat modern setting, featuring almost all the big ... Read more »
Hungama at the crossroad
I dread the fact that if ‘Chashme Buddoor’ succeeds there’ll be directors eying the gems made by Hrishikesh Mukerjee and Basu Chatterjee. The timing of a film’s release has always been crucial. Previously, March and April were anathema because of impending exams. Now producers have to ... Read more »
Avishkaar (1974)
If you look closely it was also a time when Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s “Abhimaan”, Basu Chatterjee’s “Rajnigandha” and Anil Ganguly’s “Kora Kagaz”, which also traced man-woman relationships in the urban milieu, were being noticed. It won Rajesh Khanna a well-deserved Filmfare Award for Best ... Read more »
’Paan Singh..’ best film, Irrfan best actor at 60th Nat awards
Headed by veteran filmmaker Basu Chatterjee, the 11-member feature films jury anounced the awards on Monday... Read more »
Mad about movies
He disagrees: “Portions like Basu Chatterjee’s special appearance in Jalwa have been lost forever. I want to keep stock of such rare stuff — they may or may not be available online forever.” Peer-to-peer file sharing is the elephant in the room while having conversation on Home Video... Read more »
The Hindu : Cities / Kochi : Amol Palekar – walking the less trodden path
This film is my homage to directors such as Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee.” Comparisons with mainstream cinema were inevitable for the work of a director who placed himself squarely outside the box. This yardstick that the mainstream creates, he feels, is the biggest ... Read more »
The Hindu : Arts / Theatre : His role was vital
Some of them were good roles such as in ‘Mere Apne’, ‘Anubhav’ and the 1974 Basu Chatterjee blockbuster, ‘Rajniganda,’ which was Filmfare’s Movie of the Year. While Amol Palekar played the typical boy-next-door to Vidya Sinha, Dinesh was the chain smoking, sophisticated urban ad person. ... Read more »
Noted theatre activist Dinesh Thakur dead
Closely associated with the New Wave in Indian cinema, Thakur's most notable role in films was as one of the leads in the Basu Chatterjee film Rajnigandha, which was commercially and critically successful. He was also well known for writing the story and screenplay of Ghar which was lauded... Read more »
The Hindu : Arts / Cinema : People’s poet
It became the first title song of Hindi films and a partnership took shape.” Working on a documentary, “Aaj Phir Jeene Ki Tamanna Hai”, Dinesh, who assisted Basu Chatterjee and worked as a second unit director on the Hindi version of Kamal Haasan’s “Mumbai Express”, wants to clear up the ... Read more »
The Hindu : Arts / Cinema : Close encounters of the heart
“It is a kind of tribute to my favourite film directors like Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee, and the kind of films they made. Gentle, romantic and laid-back, it is a celebration of the common man and his choices. Remember ‘Rajnigandha', ‘Chhoti Si Baat'? Those movies led to the ... Read more »
CINEMA CURRENT: Hero material
He is hilarious as Kallumal, the casteist coal merchant from Basu Chatterjee’s Chameli Ki Shaadi. Chatterjee is better known for his city-based romcoms like Rajnigandha and Choti Si Baat, but he proves adept at tackling the foibles of small-town Indians in his adaptation of Om ... Read more »
