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Films Division, Mumbai in association with Ms. Ratnottama Sengupta & WMC is organizing a special screening of the film “And They Made Classics” directed by Ratnottma Sengupta on Wednesday, 26th December, 2018, at 5:30pm. The screening will be at Audi-II Theatre, New NMIC Building, Films Division, Mumbai .

“And They Made Classics…” produced by Dr. Debasis Sengupta, has so far been screened in six international film festivals, in Kolkata, Dhaka, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar and Delhi. This is its first screening in Mumbai – the karma bhoomi of the writer and his filmguru. After screening, Director will interact with the audience.

Screening is open to all and first come, first seated.

Backgraounder-

Nabendu Ghosh shared a unique bonding with his film-guru, Bimal Roy.

In 1951, when the celluloid master went to Bombay to make ‘Maa’ for Bombay Talkies, he took the Bengali litterateur turned screen writer in his team. And in 1964 the director’s last film Bandini, that won a silver trophy at Karlovy Vary, was scripted by screen playwright Nabendu Ghosh. In between they had created such timeless classics as    Baap-Beti, Parineeta, Naukri, Biraj-Bahu, Devdas, Yahudi and Sujata.

How did the writer-director duo work? And what made their unique association work? ‘And They Made Classics’ goes behind the scenes with an interview with Nabendu Ghosh that was taken by Joy Bimal Roy in 2005, as he prepared to make ‘Remembering Bimal Roy’. Ratnottama Sengupta revisits the stories in a Centennial Tribute to Nabendu Ghosh (27 March 1917 – 15 December 2007).