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Mar 10, 2010 (Washington Bangla Radio) After the Deepika Padukone - Farhan Akhtar - Shefali Shetty starrer Karthik Calling Karthik (DVD Release), another interestingly titled Indian Hindi film Mittal Vs Mittal is on its way.

The theatrical release date of Mittal VS Mittal is March 26, 2010.

Mittal vs. Mittal is directed by Karan Razdan. The star cast includes one of the top Kolkata Bengali heroines Rituparna Sengupta with Rohit Roy, Suchitra Krishnamoorthy, Gulshan Grover, Dolly Thakore, Amar Talwar, Reema Lagoo, Anjan Shrivastava, Irawati Harshe, Hazel and others. Music director Shamir Tondon has composed music to lyrics penned by Shabbir Ahmed.

The film is about the marriage of a supermodel Mitali Mittal and business tycoon Karan Mittal. "The nation was witness to their wedding, but when this happened nobody was watching" reads the tagline.

The women-empowerment themed film explores difficulties in the life of a abused wife, facing physical and emotional abuse from her mother-in-law and a husband who adds to the problem by not standing up for his wife and siding with his mother - a family scenario which is not uncommon even today in "modern" India.

Read the complete synopsis and watch the full theatrical promo-preview trailer of Mittal vs Mittal online.

Mar 10, 2010 (Washington Bangla Radio) Directed by acclaimed parallel Bengali film actor Indraneil Sengupta and starring Prosenjit Chatterjee, the premiere of new Bengali film was held in Kolkata, according to a report in The Telegraph. AAJKER NAYAK is the directorial debut of Indranil Sengupta.

There was another Kolkata Bengali movie titled Ajker Nayak (Today's Hero) released in 1972 directed by Dinen Gupta starring Samit Bhanja, Sumitra Mukherjee, Kali Bannerjee, Kajal Gupta, Kalyan Chatterjee, Kamu Mukherjee, Bharati Devi, Niranjan Ray, Gita Dey, Partho Mukerjee, Rabi Ghosh, Shekhar Chatterjee, Jayshree Roy and more.

Mar 9, 2010 (Washington Bangla Radio) Bengali Cinema is considered as the most elite, artistic and merited with the highest quality script among the South Asian films. History of the Bengali cinema is enriched by the directors like Satyajit Ray, who was an Academy Honorary Award winner, and the recipient of India and France's greatest civilian honours, the Bharat Ratna and Legion of Honor respectively, and Mrinal Sen, who is the recipient of the French distinction of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters and the Russian Order of Friendship.

Despite the international merit and potential market outside India, no initiative was hitherto taken to market the Bengali films internationally.

Finally this deadlock has been broken by databazaar MEDIA VENTURES LLC which has taken the initiatives of distributing Bengali Movies in North America through Netflix, BlockBluster, Amazon, Best Buy, ITunes, Target and many more distribution channels.

So finally, all the new Bengali releases will be available to North American Bengalis with stunning DVD quality as well as download-formats.

To start off this great initiative, the databazaar groups presents দ্বন্দ (Dwando) - a film by Suman Ghose - the National Award Wining Director of Podokkhep ( Footsteps). Dwando is being released in over 19,000 online and retail stores in the USA and Canada including top retailers and chains like Best Buy, Target, Fry’s Electronics, Blockbuster, Netflix, Amazon and Wal-Mart.

Fight online piracy and support the Bengali movie industry - buy legal DVD's online:

PODOKKEP (FOOTSTEP) >

DWANDO (দ্বন্দ) >

My name is Adrita and yesterday I watched a movie named Alice In Wonderland. In the beginning like the first movie Alice sees the rabbit and again she follows it and she fell down the hole ...

Read the complete review and order the blu-ray dvd online.

Mar 8, 2010 (Washington Bangla Radio) The shooting of director Onir's upcoming film AFIA (also known as I AM AFIA) is complete.

AFIA is a short film about the Sperm donation Mafia and the struggle for a single woman to have a child. The cast includes Nandita Das as Afia Sengupta, Manav Kaul as Manav Tiwari, Purab Kohli as Suraj Sharma and Anurag Basu as Dr Subrata Basu. Afia is shot in Kolkata.

Critically acclaimed film-maker Onir has previously delivered intelligent films tackling difficult social issues, like My Brother Nikhil (2005) [Buy DVD Online] on AIDS and  Sorry Bhai (2008) [Buy DVD]. AFIA is expected to be no less.