Jaya Bachchan reminisces about her challenging yet memorable role in ‘Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa’ which marked her return to cinema after a 17-year hiatus. Reflecting on the emotionally taxing role, she ...

KOLKATA: Acclaimed author Mahasveta Devi’s lust for life had an infectious effect on everyone who got the opportunity to meet her. One such person was actor Joy Sengupta, who had played Jaya ...

Feature film, 1998, 186 mins. ‘Hazaar chaurasi ki maa’ is the story of a mother whose son, corpse number 1084 in the morgue, was brutally killed by the state because of his ideology of advocating the ...

Dibyanath Chatterji, his bank-employed wife, Sujata, and only child, a son, Brati, live a middle-class existence in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, circa early 1970s. Sujata is a quiet, devout Hindu, ...

As part of the birth centenary year celebrations of dramatist, poet, actor Vinod Rastogi, artistes of Vinod Rastogi Smriti Sansthan staged a play ‘Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa’ at Ravindralaya auditorium on ...