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View: Why BJP and TMC are in a celeb-wooing competition SECTIONS Share Synopsis Stars and politicians are no strangers in Bengal. Before he became a Trinamool-nominated Rajya Sabha MP Mithun Chakraborty was so close to Left Front minister Subhas Chakraborty that he organised a star-studded flood relief extravaganza and got Amitabh Bachchan to come for it. AFP Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty, a former Trinamool Rajya Sabha member, addresses a mass rally which was attended by India's PM Narendra Modi, ahead of the state legislative assembly elections. The BJP must have heaved a sigh of relie...
Can celebrities help the Trinamool defeat the BJP? Mamata Banerjee has fallen back on a tried and tested strategy of fielding well-known faces as party candidates. Filmmaker Raj Chakraborty and other Trinamool celebrity candidates with party MP Derek O'Brien. | Twitter On Sunday, headlines out of poll-bound West Bengal were dominated by the news of actor Mithun Chakraborty joining the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the prime minister’s rally in Kolkata. But when it comes to the celebrity quotient, the Trinamool Congress is not far behind. On Friday, as Trinamool chief ...
Kolkata: The timing could not have been better when Prakash Javadekar, the Union Information and Broadcasting Minister, announced at a meet-and-greet session with the Who’s Who of Bengali film industry on Monday that a national level film award would be instituted in the name of the iconic director Satyajit Ray. While no further details on the award were available, it is believed that it would be somewhat in the lines of the Dada Saheb Phalke award - hitherto considered as the highest honour in Indian cinema. This being the birth centenary year of Ray, the Oscar-winning director who is cons...