[Bengali Film The Cinema Hall Full Movie Download
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A new survey on viewership of Bengali films reveals that about 54 per cent of the sample population in Kolkata had not visited a cinema in the past one year to watch a Bengali film, despite the proliferation of multiplexes.
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Cinemawala is a 2016 Indian Bengali language film directed by Kaushik Ganguly, and starring Paran Bandyopadhyay and Parambrata Chatterjee. The theme of the film is tribute to the single screen cinema halls that are rapidly becoming rare in India.[1][2]
Pranabendu Bose, an aged man, owns a cinema hall named Kamalini. He is assisted by his long-time assistant Hari. Ever since the trend of digital viewing of cinemas by use of DVD and CDs have gained pace, Kamalini is facing loss. What infuriates Pranabendu the most is that his own son Prakash is engaged in selling illegal CDs and DVDs. The cinema-addict in Pranabendu believes cinema is fit to be seen only in the big screen, and therefore, curses Prakash for denigrating the medium of cinema by selling illegal DVDs. Pranabendu also fears that any day Prakash will be wound up by the police and that will burn his own hard-earned respect to ashes. Such is his disgust for Prakash that when local political leader Sudhanshu requests Pranabendu to stand in local panchayat elections, Pranabendu turns down the offer by saying he can't face questions from people regarding the illegal nature of the business which his own son runs. Beside the cinema hall, Pranabendu and Prakash attend to their long-time family business of distributing fish to vendors. Prakash's wife Moumita is expecting their first child. At home, Pranabendu and Prakash avoid speaking with each other. Moumita, though, takes good care of aged Pranabendu. One night, after returning from Kolkata with a bagful of illegal DVDs, Prakash notices an advertisement in the newspaper about a DVD home theater. Prakash buys a home theater by selling the golden bangles his mother Kamalini, who now lives separately from Pranabendu, gave to him on hearing of Moumita's pregnancy. Prakash, along with his business partner Ashim, arranges for the screening of blockbuster cinemas in the DVD home theater during the time of the local fair. Prakash's plan proves to be a masterstroke. The shows attract houseful audience. He and his partner make loads of money in the process. The success of his son's illegal business breaks Pranabendu's heart. He orders Hari to sell off the projectors in his cinema hall. Next morning, Pranabendu visits the cinema hall in search of Hari. Hari informs him that a local businessman has agreed to buy the projectors which are still in good condition. Hari asks Pranabendu to allow him to stay in the cinema hall one last time. Unable to bear the sight of his beloved cinema hall coming to a close, Pranabendu leaves for home. At home, he counsels Prakash to mend his ways if he wishes to make his soon-to-be-born child proud and avoid getting arrested by the police. All of a sudden, police arrives in their home. They inform Pranabendu that Hari has committed suicide inside the hall by hanging himself from a ceiling fan. Pranabendu rushes to the hall to retrieve Hari's hanging body. Prakash accompanies Hari's dead body to the crematorium. Once everybody had left, Pranabendu locks himself up in his beloved cinema hall and burns it down, thus also killing himself
Thematic Representations in the movie:The film tries to depict the present scenario of the world of Indian cinema and the effects of piracy, copyright infringement, and theft. Nowadays, due to the availability of the internet, we often do not realize that we are criminals of Intellectual Property Theft. Moreover, the artists who work so hard are not truly paid for their work as these sites providing us with the free songs and movies do not acknowledge the artists. As shown in the movie Pranabendu Bose is a victim to the modern-day technology. He is passionate about movies and his passion is not well understood by most of us in this generation including his own son, Prakash. Prakash sells illicit pirated movie CDs which angers Pranabendu so much so that the two do not speak living in the same house. Kamalini, the cinema hall owned by Pranabendu is abandoned as no one really goes to watch movies on the big screen and he ultimately burns down the hall with him in it in order to preserve the world of Cinema.
Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government has made it mandatory for all cinema halls and multiplexes in the state to screen at least one Bengali movie, during prime time, for a minimum of 120 days a year. Prime time is scheduled between noon and 9 pm in cinema halls.
Kumar said the initiative has been mooted to encourage the Bengali silver screen industry. According to him, the state government will bring amendments in the West Bengal Cinema (Regulation of Public Exhibitions) Rules, 1956 in due course.
Cinema halls in the state have to screen at least one Bengali movie during the prime time for a minimum of 120 days a year, according to a 2018 notification by the state government. Prime time slots are between 12 pm and 9 pm.
Eastern India Motion Pictures Association President Piya Sengupta told The Times of India that her organisation had discussed the matter of government monitoring whether Bengali films were getting mandatory screening times in the cinemas.
Single-screen cinema halls have to screen 112 Marathi shows every year in Maharashtra and multiplexes 122, Cinema Owners and Exhibitors Association of India president Nitin Datar told The Times of India.
He had told The Times of India that the collection from movies gave him a fair idea of what the audience wants to see. Chowkhani had asked why only theatre owners were being singled out to support Bengali content.
The West Bengal government has made it mandatory for all cinema halls and multiplexes in the state to screen at least one Bengali movie during prime time for a minimum of 120 days a year, reported the Hindustan Times.
Governor KN Tripathi issued a notification in this regard on Friday. Principal Secretary of the State Information and Cultural Affairs Department Vivek Kumar, who signed the notification, said it will be applicable on an immediate basis and the move is aimed to encourage the Bengali film industry.
Madhuja Mukherjee teaches Film Studies at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She has published two books on early Indian cinema and film sound. Mukherjee is a filmmaker and installation artist; her first graphic-novel (in Bengali) was published in August 2013.
Any storyteller embarking on archival research will tell you that the tactile quality of the material is as alluring and elusive as is the method itself. This becomes particularly meaningful when one is handling hundreds of small (roughly 4 inches x 2.5 inches) glass-plate negatives found somewhere (and somehow) in Kolkata, India.
What, at the onset, appeared to be black-and-white blotches reemerged as lobby cards and posters referencing both popular and unreleased Indian films of the 1940s to the 1960s. These materials were not big posters for exhibition on the streets; rather, they were pictures and teasers to be publicized within the theaters. They needed to be examined as objects that call to mind memories of certain spaces and places. Thus, the reclamation of this material was like excavating an archaeological site and traversing through the tracks of cinematic histories, collective memory, and chronicles of urban cultures.
Importantly, almost one-fourth of the material could not be identified; thus, it remained outside film archives and, consequently, our histories. Producing the following media installation with a range of unidentified images, I attempted to create an interface that was playful, provocative, and an abstraction of the ways in which films are remembered beyond the texts.
Did you know Menoka Cinema is situated on the street where Satyajit Ray temporarily stayed while shooting some of his masterpieces? If you want to catch the latest movie at just a 100 or 130 bucks, Menoka should be your first choice.
This is one of the venues where you can watch world cinema when the international film festival comes around every year. Rest of the year, you can watch your fave mainstream cinema - for a maximum ticket price of INR 140, you get a great viewing experience and a top-notch sound system.
A heritage film theatre, Basusree dates back to the year 1947. A decent and well-maintained indie cinemal hall, it is known to host this festival for the last few years, and also screening films for the Kolkata International Film Festival. In 2018, Alliance Franaise du Bengale and the Institut Franais en Inde had lined up a series of excellent French films here on Sundays.
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