History of Bangla Cinema

Cinema of Bengal Bengali cinema refers to the Bengali language filmmaking industries in the Bengal region of South Asia. There are two major film-making hubs in the region: one in Kolkata, West Bengal, India (Indian cinema) and the other in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Bangladeshi cinema). The history of cinema in Bengal dates back to the 1890s, when the first “bioscopes” were shown in theatres in Kolkata. Within a decade, the first seeds […]