Durga Puja in Bengali cinema: How Satyajit Ray and Rituparno Ghosh portray the goddess
From Devi and Parama to Utsab and Antarmahal, Bengali filmmakers have used Durga’s image to explore women’s agency, patriarchal control, family tensions and the contradictions between the goddess’s power and women’s lives
· 10/20/2026, 2:42:45 PM· 2 min read
From Devi and Parama to Utsab and Antarmahal, Bengali filmmakers have used Durga’s image to explore women’s agency, patriarchal control, family tensions and the contradictions between the goddess’s power and women’s lives
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