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Kolkata in the media

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Several fiction, non-fiction and cinemas were based on Kolkata, or depicted Kolkata from certain point of views.Some of such works are listed here.

Contents

Travelogues

  • The Great Railway Bazaar (Paul Theroux)
  • Following the Equator (Mark Twain)

    • Books

  • Calcutta (Geoffrey Moorhouse)
  • City of the Dreadful Night and American Tales (Rudyard Kipling)
  • City of Joy (Dominique Lapierre)
  • Calcutta: The Living City Volumes 1 & 2 (ed. Sukanta Chaudhuri)
  • Calcutta - City of Palaces: A Survey of the City in the Days of the East India Company 1690-1858. (Jeremiah P. Losty)
  • Calcutta 1981 (ed. Jean Racine)

    • Bengali films

  • Nagarik - The Citizen (Ritwik Ghatak) (1952 - Released 1977)
  • Bari Theke Paliye - The Runaway (Ritwik Ghatak) (1958)
  • Mahanagar - The Big City (Satyajit Ray) (1963)
  • Apanjan - (Tapan Sinha) (1968)
  • Pratidwandi - The Adversary (Satyajit Ray) (1970)
  • Seemabaddha - Company Limited (Satyajit Ray) (1971)
  • Interview (Mrinal Sen) (1971)
  • Calcutta 71 (Mrinal Sen) (1972)
  • Padatik - The Guerilla Fighter (Mrinal Sen) (1973)
  • Jukti Takko Aar Gappo - Logic, Debate and Story (Ritwik Ghatak) (1974)
  • Jana Aranya - The Middleman (Satyajit Ray) (1976)
  • Ek Din Pratidin - And Quiet Rolls the Day (Mrinal Sen) (1979)
  • Grihajuddha - Crossroads (Buddhadev Dasgupta) (1982)
  • Paroma - The Ultimate Woman Aparna Sen (1984)
  • Agantuk - The Stranger (Satyajit Ray) (1991)
  • Antareen - The Confined (Mrinal Sen) (1993)
  • Unishe April - Nineteenth April(Rituparno Ghosh) (1994)
  • Dahan - Crossfire (Rituparno Ghosh) (1997)
  • Chokher Bali - Sand in the Eye (Rituparno Ghosh) (2003)
  • Dashta Dash - 10:10 (Arin Paul) (2008)
  • Kaalbela - Calcutta My Love (Goutam Ghose) (2009)
  • Houseful (Bappaditya Bandopadhyay (2009)
  • Mahanagar@Kolkata (Suman Mukhopadhyay) (2009)
  • 033 (Birsa Dasgupta) (2010)
  • Ekti Tarar Khonje - Stars Never Sleep (Abhik Mukhopadhyay) (2010)
  • Gorosthaney Sabdhan (Sandip Ray) (2010)
  • Autograph (Srijit Mukherji) (2010)

    • English films

  • The River (1951 film) (Jean Renoir)
  • 36 Chowringhee Lane (Aparna Sen)
  • City of Joy (Roland Joffe)
  • Citi Life - Calcutta My El Dorado (Mrinal Sen)
  • 10 Days in Calcutta (Gerhard Hauff)
  • Bow Barracks Forever (Anjan Dutt)
  • Call Cutta (Anjan Dutt)
  • 15 Park Avenue (Aparna Sen)
  • The Waiting City
  • The Avengers, Bruce Banner's hide-out where Natasha Romanoff recruits him for the Avengers
  • Memories in March
  • Lion starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman
  • The Namesake

    • French films

  • Calcutta (Louis Malle)
  • The Bengali Night(La Nuit Bengali)

    • BADAL

    Hindi films

  • Howrah Bridge
  • Pyaasa
  • Amar Prem
  • Do Bigha Zameen
  • Devdas (1955)
  • Devdas (2002)
  • Ram Teri Ganga Maili
  • Calcutta Mail
  • Do Anjaane
  • Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa
  • Morning Walk
  • Parineeta
  • Vicky Donor
  • Yuva
  • Raincoat'
  • Kahaani (2012)
  • Barfi!
  • Khushi
  • Love Aaj Kal
  • Calcutta Mail
  • Gunday
  • Badmaash Company
  • Kaminey
  • Michael by Ribhu Dasgupta
  • Lootera
  • No One Killed Jessica
  • Special 26
  • Bullet Raja
  • Kolkata Junction
  • Babumoshai Bandookbaaz
  • Piku
  • Highway(2014)
  • Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
  • Tamasha
  • Te3n
  • Kahaani 2
  • Meri Pyaari Bindu

    • References

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