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New Indian Express
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- New Indian Express
West Bengal Minister Bratya Basu, TMC leader Kunal Ghosh cast in Bengali political thriller
KOLKATA: West Bengal minister Bratya Basu and his Trinamool Congress colleague Kunal Ghosh are set to appear in a Bengali film on the mystery behind the disappearance of a female university official. The thriller will recapture Kolkata's political arena of 1997 when the CPI(M)-led Left Front was in power in West Bengal. The movie 'Karpur' (camphor) is based on a book, 'Antardhaner Nepathye' (behind the disappearance), which had references to a real life incident. It will cast Ghosh, who is a journalist-turned-TMC secretary, and Basu, the education minister and an acclaimed actor-director. "The film is an intense political thriller. It is entirely fictional having no resemblance with any real-life incident or personality," director Arindam Sil told PTI. Ghosh is essaying the role of a political leader, while Basu is portraying the character of a seasoned officer of the homicide section of the Kolkata Police. The role has been conceived keeping Basu in mind, Sil said. "For Kunal, his spontaneity before the camera, his way of speaking and his political acumen made him an automatic choice for the (politician's) role," the director added. Celebrated actor Rituparna Sengupta essays the role of the missing university official. In the movie, 22 years after the disappearance, two investigative reporters of a news portal begin research into the incident and stumble upon many startling facts and the mystery is unfolded, sources in the production house said, revealing the storyline. The film will hit the floors next month. Ghosh shared a picture of the script reading session on social media. "New cinema Karpur. Director Arindam Sil reading script. This was the first session. New experience for me as an actor. Amazing script," he said in the post in Bengali.
India Today
7 days ago
- Politics
- India Today
Kerala slams Centre over foreign aid approval to Maharashtra, cites bias
The CPI(M)-led Kerala government on Sunday accused the BJP-ruled Centre of political bias after it permitted Maharashtra to accept foreign contributions for disaster relief while denying similar requests from Kerala during its devastating 2018 Finance Minister K N Balagopal stated that the state welcomed the Centre's approval for Maharashtra but called out what he described as 'discriminatory treatment' between support the decision to give permission to Maharashtra, but there shouldn't be differential treatment towards states. It shows that centre sees the states differently and that is based on politics. It is not right for the administrators to show that their criteria is not the disaster but politics. This is not right for the relation between state and centre,' said Balagopal. His remarks came after the Maharashtra Chief Minister's Relief Fund was granted registration under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 (FCRA), making it eligible to receive foreign aid. This contrasts sharply with the Centre's earlier refusal to allow Kerala to accept foreign assistance during the 2018 floods, despite offers from countries including the Balagopal's concerns, CPI MP P Sandosh Kumar also criticised the Centre, accusing it of showing 'step-motherly treatment' toward Union Government's recent approval allowing foreign contributions to the Maharashtra Chief Minister's Relief Fund starkly highlights the injustice done to Kerala during the devastating 2018 floods, when foreign aid was blocked and contributions to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund were disallowed,' he said.'At the time of the 2018 floods that devastated the state of Kerala, many international organisations including the Government of UAE expressed their willingness to extend a helping hand to Kerala but such requests were outrightly denied by the BJP government,' Kumar InTrending Reel IN THIS STORY#Kerala#Maharashtra
