Bangla Chalachchitra Shilper Itihas by Kalish Mukhopadhyay [Hardcover]

Among those who were engaged in the work of written discussion or practice and preservation of history of Bengali film, Srikalish Mukhopadhyay and his magazine 'Roop-Manch' played a leading role.... As his editor was intimately involved, perhaps as an inevitable natural consequence, Kalish Mukherjee embarked on a history of Bengali cinema. Considering 1897 as the birth of Bengali cinema, marking the year of India's independence in 1947 as a juxtaposition, Srimukhopadhyay wrote a great book.... When the future researcher is engaged in searching the history of Bengali cinema's sources and sources, the beginning is the beginning before the beginning of Bengali cinema. I believe that you can recover the time of salting from this inexhaustible source book. It is in this belief that I welcome the re-publication of this book... - Soumitra Chatterjee