On the occasion of 100 years completion of Bengali Cinema and 50 years of Eastern Motion Picture Directors’ Association, EIMPDA will be organizing an event of cultural importance. The event is titled Bangla Chalachitrer Gourab Sandhya.

A press conference was organized to announce this event. The press meet was graced by Madhabi Mukherjee, Sandip Ray, Papiya Adhikari, Raja Sen, Sekhar Das and others.

Eminent filmmakers who will be felicitated at the event include Tarun Majumder (Lifetime Achievement), Sandip Ray, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Biresh Chatterjee, Aparna Sen, Swapan Saha, Haranath Chakraborty, Shiboprosad Mukherjee, Nandita Roy, Kaushik Ganguly, Raja Sen, Sekhar Das and others.

Eminent artists who will be felicitated are Soumitra Chatterjee, Mithun Chakraborty, Sharmila Tagore, Madhabi Mukherjee, Victor Banerjee, Manoj Mitra, Chiranjit, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Jeet, Dev and others.

Eminent singers who will be felicitated are Sandhya Mukhopadhyay (Lifetime Achievement), Arati Mukherjee, Alka Yagnik, Kumar Sanu, Usha Uthup, Haimanti Shukla, Shibaji Chatterjee and others.

Eminent crew members for felicitation include Soumendu Roy (cinematographer), Nitish Roy (art director), Nemai Ghosh (still photographer), Hitendra Ghosh (sound designer) and others.

The event will also see great musical performances by artists like Srikanta Acharya, Subhamita, Raghab Chatterjee, Zubeen Garg, Anupam Roy, Iman Chakraborty and others.

The event will take place on 29^th March, Sunday at Nazrul Mancha auditorium.

Priyanka Dutta