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  Celebrated Filmmaker Kaushik Ganguly Makes His Bollywood Debut, Announces Manohar Pandey Starring Supriya Pathak Kapur, Saurabh Shukla And Raghubir Yadav   India, 27th January 2021  - National award-winning South Asian filmmaker and contemporary cinema veteran Kaushik Ganguly is gearing up for his maiden innings in Hindi cinema.   Celebrated for films like ‘Nagarkirtan’, ‘Jyeshthoputro’, 'Shabdo', 'Chotoder Chobi‘, 'Apur Panchali', 'Bisorjon’ and 'Just Another Love Story', the doyen of Bengali cinema, Ganguly will now be seen directing his 28th feature film with Supriya Pathak Kapur, Saurabh Shukla and Raghubir Yadav in this romantic-drama set on the backdrop of the unprecedented COVID-19 catastrophe that engrossed the world in 2020.   Titled ‘Manohar Pandey’, the 130-minute film will be primarily shot in the serene landscapes of North Bengal, one of the favourite locations of Ganguly, who has also scripted and written the dialogues of th...

  Hollywood Film Review Johnson Thomas Diversity underlined but lacking in amiable tone Film: The Personal History of David Copperfield Cast: Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, Ben Whishaw, Peter Capaldi Director: Armando Iannucci Rating:   * * ½ Runtime: 119 mins   This colorful, mish-mashed representation of Charles Dickens’ grand semi-autobiographical novel published serially in 1849–50 and in book form in 1850, reduced to near 120 minute cinematic scale, may be considered a tribute to diversity but it doesn’t quite get the tone or temper of the book right. Scottish writer/director Iannucci has whittled down the wordy tome to an almost anecdotal representation depraved of wit or whimsy. The quirkiness of individual characters fails to lend humor to this rather boring literary adaptation. Armando Iannucci may have meant well with his ‘diverse’ casting choices but that’s also precisely why this work appears so blasé and unbecoming.    ...