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Celebrated film-maker Onir, who hails from Kolkata before carving his niche in Mumbai nearly two decades ago, is hopeful of making a movie in Bengali one day. However, the National Award winning director said, the problem is he does not have much idea about getting finance for making a Bengali film with his own idea.

Renowned Bengali filmmaker and theatre personality Goutam Halder died of cardiac arrest in Kolkata on Friday. He was 67. Halder died at a private hospital, where he was admitted after complaining of chest pain at his Salt Lake residence in the morning, sources in the Bengali film industry said.

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However not many would know that during Lata Mangeshkar’s prime years, there was another singer who was the toughest competition and that is a singer named Suman Kalyanpur.

Bollywood actress Raima Sen is all set for her next release, The Vaccine War, helmed by Vivek Agnihotri. The actress will be seen playing the role of a journalist who is against the vaccination drive in India.

Smita Patil appeared in over 80 Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Malayalam, and Kannada films in a career that spanned just over a decade. During her career, she received two National Film Awards and a Filmfare Award.

Directed by Ayaan Mukerji Brahmastra was all set to release in 2020 but was delayed due to the ongoing pandemic.