Hoichoi brings new food and travel series
Oct 26, 2024, at 07:46 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Popular online streaming platform Hoichoi has introduced a new food and travel series, titled Sunrise Bhojonbilashi.
Directors' body suspends Bengali filmmaker Arindam Sil over sexual harassment allegations
Sep 08, 2024, at 05:01 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The Directors Association of Eastern India (DAEI) has suspended popular Bengali filmmaker Arindam Sil following sexual harassment allegations on the sets of one of his films.
Aug 27, 2024, at 04:56 am
Kolkata/IBNS: In the wake of the Hema Committee report that shook Mollywood, Bengali actress Ritabhari Chakraborty has called out the alleged sexual harassment prevailing in her filmdom calling it a "sugar coated brothel".
Jul 31, 2024, at 04:28 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Bengali directors called off their indefinite strike in Kolkata's entertainment industry following West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's intervention on Tuesday.
Jul 31, 2024, at 01:03 am
Kolkata/IBNS: The Bengali entertainment industry's shutdown after the directors and producers called a strike over tussle with the film federation is likely to see an end with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's intervention.
Saswata Chatterjee to work in Bangladeshi web series Gulmohar
Jun 29, 2024, at 03:28 pm
Tollywood or Bengali film industry actor Saswata Chatterjee will soon be seen working in a Bangladeshi web series named 'Gulmohar'.
Popular Bengali actor Partha Sarathi Deb dies in Kolkata hospital
Mar 23, 2024, at 06:58 pm
Popular Bengali actor Partha Sarathi Deb, who was a popular face in movies and theatre, has died in a Kolkata hospital.
Raima Sen's next Bengali web series to release in Durga Puja
May 15, 2022, at 06:30 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Indian actor Raima Sen has revealed she will soon be featuring in a Bengali web series, ending the wait for her fans and followers.
Mumbai never intrigued me, working there was just a bigger exposure: Mimi Chakraborty
May 09, 2022, at 07:29 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Tollywood's leading actor-MP Mimi Chakraborty was recently in Mumbai to mark her Bollywood debut after cementing her place in the Bengali film industry over the last decade.
Tollywood superstar Jeet tests Covid-19 positive, isolates himself
Apr 20, 2021, at 06:59 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Bengali film superstar Jeet on Tuesday tested positive for Novel Coronavirus or Covid-19.
RIP Legend: Soumitra Chatterjee's last rites performed with full state honours
Nov 16, 2020, at 01:34 am
Kolkata: With full state honours, the last rites of Bengali acting legend Soumitra Chatterjee was performed in south Kolkata's Keoratola crematorium on Sunday.
Soumitra Chatterjee (1935-2020): The last of the Bengali celluloid Mohicans
Nov 15, 2020, at 07:41 pm
For Bengalis, a community sold on its icons, Soumitra Chatterjee was not just a thespian who was conferred India's highest film honour, Dadasaheb Phalke. For generations of Bengalis he was a cultural insignia who could effortlessly straddle the world of crass commercialism of mainstream Tollywood and the best of Indian arthouse movies trail-blazed by late Satyajit Ray.
Tollywood superstar Dev's house manager tests Covid-19 positive
Aug 25, 2020, at 09:54 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Bengali actor Dev's house manager Uttam has tested positive for Novel Coronavirus, the superstar informed on Tuesday.
Sreelekha Mitra blasts Prosenjit Chatterjee over 'favouritism' in Tollywood
Jun 20, 2020, at 02:47 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: In the wake of the nepotism debate triggered by the suicide of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, Bengali actor Sreelekha Mitra has recently accused Tollywood superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee of indulging in "favouritism" in the film industry.
Shooting for Bengali movies, serials, web series to begin from tomorrow
May 31, 2020, at 05:06 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Your favourite movies and serials will soon be back as the West Bengal government gave permission to start shooting for TV, cinema and web series for OTT platforms from Monday.
Tollywood actress Koel Mallick becomes mother, welcomes baby boy
May 05, 2020, at 03:19 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Bengali actress Koel Mallick on Tuesday morning became a proud mother giving birth to a baby boy at a hospital here.
COVID 19 Outbreak: Shooting for all Bengali films, serials stopped from Mar 18 to 30
Mar 17, 2020, at 05:37 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Amid coronavirus outbreak across the globe, including India, shooting for all Bengali movies and TV serials will remain stopped from Mar 18 to 30, officials said on Tuesday.
Dev’s Tonic to release in May, makers unveil new poster
Feb 18, 2020, at 08:04 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The first look poster of Tollywood superstar Dev’s upcoming release Tonic has recently been released here.
Cinematographer Soumendu Roy to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at WBFJA Cinemar Samabartan
Jan 11, 2020, at 11:56 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Film Journalists’ Association Award 2020 entitled ‘Cinemar Samabartan’, will be held on Sunday for which the nominations were recently announced.
Makers release official trailer of Professor Shanku O El Dorado
Nov 08, 2019, at 06:17 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The official trailer of the most sought-after film of this year Professor Shanku O El Dorado was released by its makers on Friday.
Tollywood, Bangladesh film industry come together for BBFA 2019
Oct 21, 2019, at 10:02 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Tollywood and Bangladesh film industry have come together for the first edition of Bharat Bangladesh Film Awards (BBFA) 2019.
Tollywood superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee turns 57
Sep 30, 2019, at 02:24 pm
Kolkata: Tollywood superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee, who have been in the Bengali film industry for more than three decades, turned 57 on Monday.
Abhishek Singh is the new hunk on the block in Tollywood
Sep 29, 2019, at 01:39 pm
Abhishek Singh is the next hunk on the rise in Tollywood. Law graduate from Pune, a few years ago he left his lucrative legal career to respond to his first love and inner calling - acting. IBNS in conversation with the chiselled good-looking actor who starred in recent releases like Panther and Password besides drawing attention in the web series.
Srabanti turns 31, Tollywood celebrities wish her
Aug 13, 2018, at 04:31 pm
Kolkata, Aug 13 (IBNS); Bengali film actress Srabanti turned 31 on Monday as Tollywood celebrities wished her on the special day of the year.
Srijit Mukherji releases teaser of his upcoming release Ek Je Chilo Raja
Aug 12, 2018, at 08:24 pm
Kolkata, Aug 12 (IBNS): Makers have released the teaser of upcoming Bengali movie ‘Ek Je Chilo Raja’.
Rangini, my comeback project, is like giving birth to my baby: Gargi Roy Chowdhury
May 19, 2018, at 10:40 pm
Bengali actor Gargee Roychowdhury, who is known for her character roles in cinemas and television soaps, tells IBNS correspondent Sourojit Choudhury about her return to the theatre after a hiatus of eight years, about the monologue play and how she has prepared herself for the comeback.
SVF announces a line-up of 25 mega productions, earmarks Rs. 100 crore
Jan 13, 2018, at 12:21 am
Kolkata, Jan 12 (IBNS): SVF, Eastern India’s largest movie production house today raised the curtain on SVF Stories - one of the biggest entertainment events Bengal has witnessed.
Tollywood: Uttam turns 91, Bengalis get nostalgic
Sep 03, 2017, at 03:31 pm
Kolkata, Sep 3 (IBNS): Fans and fraternity celebrated the 91st birth anniversary of the evergreen idol of Bengali matinee, late Uttam Kumar.
Arijit Singh's "Dugga Ma track from upcoming Tollywood movie Bolo Dugga Maiki releases
Aug 28, 2017, at 01:17 am
Kolkata, Aug 27 (IBNS): The latest track from upcoming Tollywood movie Bolo Dugga Maiki titled "Dugga Ma" has been launched.
SVF wins laurels at home, abroad
Aug 04, 2017, at 09:10 pm
Kolkata, Aug 4 (IBNS): SVF, Eastern India’s largest media and entertainment conglomerate, has bagged a string of awards in different categories for Bengali films in the prestigious 37th NABC (North American Bengali Conference)at International Bangla Film Awards (IBFA Awards) held in July in the Silicon Valley, and,more recently, at “Mahanayak Samman, 2017â€, instituted in honour of the legendary Mahanayak Uttam Kumar.