Cinema's greats like Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen once held Bengali cinema’s flag aloft on the global stage. But over the years, the film industry in Kolkata has gone strangely insular. Stories that it puts on the screen these days skim the surface of the state’s social and cultural diversity. But all may not be lost. Outside the charmed circle of Kolkata’s multiplex mavens, a breed of writer-directors — several of them, encouragingly, debutants — hasn’t given up the fight. They foray. . .
