Cinema often serves as a mirror that we hold to see our own reflection. A book on cinema is like holding another mirror to multiply that reflection infinite times over. In this section, we have catalogued books on cinema from Bengal in 18 thematic segments. That includes biographies of stalwarts as well as books that analyze the craft of filmmaking. This is by no means an absolute list but just a starting point. For all the bookworms passionate about movies, we will continue updating this section frequently.

Biographies and Memoirs

Documentaries

Durgadas Bandyopadhyay

Film and Music

Hiralal Sen

History

Kanan Devi

Mrinal Sen

Pramathesh Barua

Ritwik Ghatak

Satyajit Ray

Scripts and Other Writings

Soumitra Chattopadhyay

Suchitra Sen

Tagore and Films

Tapan Sinha

Theory, Technique and Criticism

Uttam Kumar