Bengalis, especially from the older generation are well known for their notorious Hindi speaking skills, though this of course is not applicable to all Bengalis. However, I mean, a certain section ...

Several Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu shows have been remade in Bengali while many Bangla television serials prompted makers to launch it in other languages.

Kolkata: Call it linguistic identity, parochialism, or pushback against Hindi ‘imposition’, a renewed language ‘battle’ simmers between Bengali and non-Bengali speakers in West Bengal ...

The Bengali version is an out-and-out Uttam Kumar film with Supriya Devi, Nirmal Kumar and Srabani Basu filling in the gaps. Rakhee, in her maiden film appearance, does a much better job of Sumita ...

Bajpaie noted that artistes who have spent their lives performing Bangla songs are now invited to such events on the condition that they must also sing in Hindi.

A musical giant, Salil Chowdhury’s versatile compositions unleashed a new wave in Bengali music in the 1950s. In a career spanning five decades, Chowdhury scored music for Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, ...