When he was around four years old, Ashim watched his father Shakti Samanta’s 1958 crime-thriller, Howrah Bridge. In the film’s climax, the hero, Ashok Kumar, chases the villain up the iconic bridge ...
In the month of Sawan, when the monsoon darkens the skies, women in eastern Uttar Pradesh and western Bihar have gathered for generations to sing kajari – songs that are bound to the rhythms of ...
On Shakti Samanta’s birth anniversary, January 13, Subhash K Jha revisits his incredible music sense and the songs that added more to his art of movie-making. Shakti Samanta was a great filmmaker. But ...