E-CineIndia (July-September 2026)
E-CINEINDIA
ISSN: 2582-2500
CENTENARY TRIBUTE TO UTTAM KUMAR (1926-2026)
VOL. XXXI
JULY-SEPT 2026
Editor:
Premendra Mazumder
Editorial Board:
MK Raghavendra
N Vidyashankar (Kannada)
Meena Karnik (Marathi)
Manoj Barpujari (Assamese)
G P Ramachandran (Malayalam)
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Centenary Tribute: Uttam Kumar
- Sharmistha Mitra Chakraborty: The Mentality of Post- Partition Bengali Middle-Class And The Popularity of Uttam Kumar
- Abhishek Talukder: Uttam Kumar – The GOAT – No Cuts, No Buts, No Coconuts
- Chitto Ghosh: Uttam Kumar and Making of Post-Independence Bengali Self Stardom, Aspiration and The Art of Living on Screen
- Pradip Biswas: Uttam Kumar: Larger Than Life Actor
- N. Manu Chakravarthy: The Multiple Dimensions of the MAHANAYAK
- Siladitya Sen: From Screen to Shrine: The Enduring Aura of Uttam Kumar
- Rajasri Raha and Ujjal Chakraborty: The Face of Uttam Kumar: Echoes of Bengali History
- Sujay Singha: The Geography of Loss: How Uttam Kumar’s Body Language And Screen Spaces Rebuilt the Lost ‘Desh’ for Partition Refugees
- Somshankar Ray: Uttam Kumar: His Penmanship Was More Eloquent Than His Acting
- Rima Ash: Nayak and the Star Culture: How Alienation and Existentialism Work Beyond Stardom
- Dipsikha Bhagawati: Uttam Kumar: Beyond Generic Masculinity
- Raj Kumar Swain: Uttam Kumar: Stardom, Modernity and the Enduring Cultural Politics of Bengali Cinema
- Krishna Urvashi: Who is the Hero? Uttam Kumar, Stardom and Performance of the Self in Satyajit Ray’s Nayak
Tribute
Article
- Martin P. Botha: Marginal Lives, Female Agency and Male Angst In The Cinema of Darrell James Roodt: 1986 – 2026.
- Malek Khouri: El Sett (Marwan Hamed, Egypt, 2025) Sanitized Cultural Memory in Mainstream Arab Cinema
- Anis Pervez: An Exploration of Melodrama in Indian Film
- Tamal Dasgupta: The Political Legacy of Indian Cinema
- Anirban Sadhu: OTT Platforms, New Censorship, and Visual Politics
- Arijit Lahiri: The Patron Saint of Partition Melodrama: Reconsidering Ritwik Kumar Ghatak Beyond the Bengali Intellectual Circus
- Jubin Easow Abraham: Dreaming Time, Remembering Space: Memory, Dream, and History in Bi Gan’s Cinema
- Suchana Ghosh: Between Reality and Fiction: Performance, Truth and the Construction of Reality in Iranian Cinema
- Pranjal Borah: Meat, Smells, and Water as Posthuman Aesthetics: Three Contemporary Films from North East India Rethink What It Means to Be Human
- Bishal Das: Celluloid Subversions: A Feminist Deconstruction of Subjectivity and Space in Assamese Cinema
- Nishamoni Mahanta: Queer in Assamese Cinema: A Creative and Critical Study of Fireflies–Jonaki Porua
- Sunzu Bachaspatimayum: The New Gaze of Manipuri Cinema
- Ashok Palit: Magician Behind the Screen: Apurba Kishore Bir
- Latha Rajasekar: Reminiscing Bharathiraja, the Ruralist
- Mugdha Pramanik: Deewaar: Discourses on Hindi Film Form, Its Modalities, And the Onset of the Angry Young Man Genre
- Neha Thombre: Kalari Kid: When Women Are Asked to Fight Back
- Riddhadev Bandyopadhyay: Social Realism and Aesthetic Formalism in Mrinal Sen’s Calcutta 71
- Srijani Dutta: Violence, Masculinity, Madness: Reading the Representation of the Theatre of Cruelty in Maqbool and Haider
- Narendra Bandabe: Central Asia as a Rising Cinematic Power House From Vostokkino to Findings Its own Identity
Critique
Paper
- Subhasish Bhowmick: Reconstituting Women as the Site of European Unification: Tracing the Image of the Women Protagonists in Kieslowski’s Internationally Co-produced Films of the 1990s
- Mainak Dutta: Performing Democracy? A Contemporary Bengali Film and the Political Imagination
Festival Report
- Anna M.M. Vetticad: Films, Conversations and No Easy Answers
- Guruji Sweta Chandan: Third Bhubaneswar Film Festival 2026
Cover
Uttam Kumar in Satyajit Ray’s ‘Nayak’
