Calcutta Film Society

Calcutta Film Society

Calcutta Flm Society was a film society in the city of Kolkata (then Calcutta), West Bengal, India. The founders of the society were Satyajit Ray, Chidananda Dasgupta, Bansi Chandragupta and others. This film society was founded in 1947 —The Battleship Potemkin was the first film screened.


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