Penumbra: A Janardan Maity Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Chattopadhyay, Bhaskar

Mystery

PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE INDIA PVT.LTD.

Here Falls the Shadow: A Janardan Maity Mystery

The Disappearance of Sally Sequeira: A Janardan Maity Mystery

Best Served Cold: A Janardan Maity Mystery

Thrillers & Suspense

Aperture: A Janardan Maity Mystery

Best Served Cold

Notion Press

In the middle of one of the worst storms to hit the city, a mysterious letter arrives for Prakash Ray, an out-of-luck journalist, inviting him to a quaint, suburban bungalow, to celebrate the 60th birthday of an uncle he has never heard of.. As Prakash reaches the venue, he is introduced to a motley group of people, all gathered there for the old man' s big day: his son, his reticent brother, a dignified middle-aged lady who once owned the bungalow, a listless lawyer who manages his legal affairs, a mild-mannered young man who works as his secretary, his beautiful, young biographer, and his mysterious friend, who has never lost a game of chess to him. As the storm lashes on through the night, one of the people in the bungalow is murdered! In a game of cat and mouse that follows, Prakash soon finds out that under the surface of apparent warmth and friendliness, nothing is as it seems and that the bungalow holds one shocking secret after another! In a bid to save his own life, Prakash hunts for the truth, which lies in a mysterious penumbra of shadows and lights, covered in a sheath of deceit and guile, only to realize that the worst is yet to come!

Penumbra

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Fingerprint! Publishing

An anthology of short stories that master film-maker Satyajit Ray adapted into films. A rich zamindar has a dream that his daughter-in-law is an incarnation of Kali; a clerk's life turns upside down when he stumbles upon a magical stone which can turn any base metal into gold; a housewife steps out of her lowermiddle-class household into the big city to work as a salesgirl,and is awestruck by its labyrinthine ways; blessed with three magical boons from the king of ghosts, Goopy and Bagha fight the evil plans of the king of Halla and save the kingdom of Shundi; a group of friends run into a self-proclaimed ageless sage who claims to have been friends with Plato, Jesus and Buddha. With short stories from legendary writers like Tagore, Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Rajshekhar Basu and Premchand, Fourteen is a beautiful collection of tales Satyajit Ray transformed into films, that have endured and become classics we all love and admire.

14 : Stories That Inspired Satyajit Ray

Harper Perennial India

The Cinema of Satyajit Ray

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Westland Non-fiction

Satyajit Ray is the tallest Indian figure in world cinema. Retrospectives across the globe, perhaps even more than at home, have kept his legacy alive. But how do we understand his cinema in the context of a vastly different world? What keeps great cinema from becoming dated? What are the particularities of Ray’s movies that cause them to endure? 
Bhaskar Chattopadhyay’s literary engagement with Ray’s cinema spans years. In this book, he revisits each one of Satyajit Ray’s thirty-nine feature films, shorts and documentaries to investigate their cinematic and social context. He also speaks to a number of the master’s collaborators as well as other directors and critics to truly understand Ray and his work. 
Packed with delightful anecdotes and fresh insights, and rare photographs from and of his films, The Cinema of Satyajit Ray is an essential book for every cinephile’s library. 
‘Ray’s greatest strength was his power of suggestion’ – Aparna Sen 
‘Satyajit Ray did not believe in God’ – Dhritiman Chaterji 
‘In his films, Satyajit Ray has never shown any ugliness.’ – Madhabi Mukherjee 
‘Agantuk was the culmination of one of the most illustrious careers in cinema history’ – Mamata Shankar 
‘Ray never compromised his narrative for the sake of his politics’ – Neeraj Ghaywan 
‘Ray was a polymath talent, but the flip side of that is being a bit of a control freak’ – Oliver Craske 
‘Whenever I travel abroad, wherever there is good cinema, people know me because of Devi’ – Sharmila Tagore 
‘Satyajit Ray was not a documentarist by choice.’ – Shyam Benegal

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

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