Posted in Books and Literature, Cultural, Dance and Drama, Entertainment, General, Interesting, Kolkata, Metro News, Movie Reviews, Movies, News and Views, tagged Lovesongs -Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Jaya Bachchan, Director Jayabrato Chatterjee, Usha Uthup, Mir Taqi Mir, Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali, Cinema, Om Puri, Mallika, Shahana Chatterjee, Dom Mores, Last Train to Innocence, MAMI International Film Festival on 27 March 2008 | No Comments »
Kolkata is celebrating Jaya Bachchan’s latest in Bengali cinema Lovesongs -Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. However Bengali has been used sparsely in [...]
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Posted in Cultural, Dance and Drama, Entertainment, Fiction, From Headlines, From the Past, General, Indian History, Movies, News and Views, Stories and Experiences, tagged Movies, Music, History, Culture, India, News, Media, Devdas, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Saawariya, Ranbir, Sonam Kapoor, Albert Roussel, Paris, French, Opera, Ballet, Theatre du Chatelet, France, Brazil, Italy, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Standing Ovation, Padmavati, French Music, Art on 18 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sanjay Leela Bhansali of Devdas fame got standing ovation at Theatre du Chatelet in Paris. Not for another Bollywood movie, but for an opera-ballet titled Padmavati: Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s adaptation of the 1923 opera-ballet by Albert Roussel, one of the greatest yet least understood masters of twentieth-century French music.
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