Samir Chanda

In this new series of #DirectorsCut, ETimes talks about these relatively lesser-known and yet brilliant films by iconic directors that were overshadowed by their more popular filmworks. This week, we take a look at late filmmaker Samir Chanda’s ‘Ek Nodir Galpo’ which got released after his demise.

Release the film if you can,“ said Samir Chanda to his wife, days ahead of his death in August, 2011. A veteran art director and production designer with a huge body of work including Yodha, Dil Se, Guru, Omkara, Rang De Basanti, Raavan and innumerable regional language films, Samir wanted his debut directorial to be in Bengali.

Friday evening saw a number of eminent Bollywood directors come together for the funeral of art director Samir Chanda

Samir Chanda, production designer of ‘Omkara’, ‘Guru’, ‘Rang De Basanti’, ‘Saat Khoon Maaf’, ‘Chittagong’ and ‘Mausam’, passed away on Thursday.

On Thursday evening, Bollywood lost one of its most accomplished art directors.

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The sudden news of art director Samir Chanda’s death has sent shockwaves across tinsel town.

The film-maker was in town with art director Samir Chanda to shoot some long shots for ‘Dream Sequence’ on Bijoya Dashami.

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Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Delhi-6, featuring Abhishek Bachchan and Sonam Kapoor in lead roles released on February 20 back in 2009. On the film's 14th anniversary, we look back at lesser known facts about this quirky and off-beat drama.

15 YEARS OF DELHI-6

Critically acclaimed filmmaker Kalpana Lajmi, who was suffering from kidney ailment, passed away early Sunday morning at a hospital here.She was 64.

Memories flowed free on Friday evening when friends and well-wishers of the late Samir Chanda got together at a city theatre to celebrate the premiere of his debut directorial, Ek Nodir Galpo.

It's a happy moment for the team of Ek Nadir Galpo: Tale of a River.

Ever since the Karni Sena issued threats to 'Padmaavat', 65-year-old Sobha Roy has been offering prayers daily at her Dumdum residence. Her 42-year-old son Amit Roy, along with Subrata Chakraborty, has done the production design of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s 'Padmaavat'.

Tuhin Mukherjee is elated to have bagged his fourth big film project.

A year after a Hyderabad court cleared her in the alleged sex racket bust, Shweta Basu Prasad will be seen on screen again. This time, in a Bengali film.

doneIt was a dream-come-true for city girl Saloni Dhatrak when she visited the Rashtrapati Bhavan in the capital on Tuesday to receive the National Film Award for the best production design for ‘Bajirao Mastani'. She also won a Filmfare in the same category for the film recently.

After warming up to the audiences in Bengal, Ek Nodir Golpo now finds a place among the Oscar hopefuls from India. The film will soon be screened by the committee appointed by the Film Federation of India, which decides on India's official entry to the Oscars.