Kolkata in the media

Several fiction, non-fiction and cinemas were based on Kolkata, or depicted Kolkata from certain point of views.Some of such works are listed here.

Travelogues

Books

Calcutta (Geoffrey Moorhouse)
City of the Dreadful Night and American Tales (Rudyard Kipling)
City of Joy (Dominique Lapierre)
Calcutta: The Living City Volumes 1 & 2 (ed. Sukanta Chaudhuri)
Calcutta - City of Palaces: A Survey of the City in the Days of the East India Company 1690-1858. (Jeremiah P. Losty)
Calcutta 1981 (ed. Jean Racine)

Films set in Kolkata

Bengali films

Nagarik - The Citizen (Ritwik Ghatak) (1952 - Released 1977)
Bari Theke Paliye - The Runaway (Ritwik Ghatak) (1958)
Mahanagar - The Big City (Satyajit Ray) (1963)
Apanjan - (Tapan Sinha) (1968)
Pratidwandi - The Adversary (Satyajit Ray) (1970)
Seemabaddha - Company Limited (Satyajit Ray) (1971)
Interview (Mrinal Sen) (1971)
Calcutta 71 (Mrinal Sen) (1972)
Padatik - The Guerilla Fighter (Mrinal Sen) (1973)
Jukti Takko Aar Gappo - Logic, Debate and Story (Ritwik Ghatak) (1974)
Jana Aranya - The Middleman (Satyajit Ray) (1976)
Ek Din Pratidin - And Quiet Rolls the Day (Mrinal Sen) (1979)
Grihajuddha - Crossroads (Buddhadev Dasgupta) (1982)
Paroma - The Ultimate Woman Aparna Sen (1984)
Agantuk - The Stranger (Satyajit Ray) (1991)
Antareen - The Confined (Mrinal Sen) (1993)
Unishe April - Nineteenth April(Rituparno Ghosh) (1994)
Dahan - Crossfire (Rituparno Ghosh) (1997)
Chokher Bali - Sand in the Eye (Rituparno Ghosh) (2003)
Dashta Dash - 10:10 (Arin Paul) (2008)
Kaalbela - Calcutta My Love (Goutam Ghosh) (2009)
Houseful (Bappaditya Bandopadhyay (2009)
Mahanagar@Kolkata (Suman Mukhopadhyay) (2009)
033 (Birsa Dasgupta) (2010)
Ekti Tarar Khonje - Stars Never Sleep (Abhik Mukhopadhyay) (2010)
Gorosthaney Sabdhan (Sandip Ray) (2010)
Autograph (Srijit Mukherji) (2010)

English films

The River (1951 film) (Jean Renoir)
36 Chowringhee Lane (Aparna Sen)
City of Joy (Roland Joffe)
Citi Life - Calcutta My El Dorado (Mrinal Sen)
10 Days in Calcutta (Gerhard Hauff)
Bow Barracks Forever (Anjan Dutt)
Call Cutta (Anjan Dutt)
15 Park Avenue (Aparna Sen)
The Waiting City
The Avengers, Bruce Banner's hide-out where Natasha Romanoff recruits him for the Avengers
Memories in March
Lion starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman
The Namesake

French films

Calcutta (Louis Malle)
The Bengali Night(La Nuit Bengali)

Hindi films

Kolkata topics

Localities and streets

Kolkata Metropolitan Area
Neighbourhoods
- list
Streets (list)

Ethnic enclaves

Bow Barracks (Anglo-Indian)
Chinatown, Kolkata (Chinese)
Tangra, Kolkata (Chinese)
Armani-para (Armenian)

Buildings

Belvedere Estate Indian Museum Jorasanko Thakur Bari Marble Palace National Library of India Netaji Bhawan Raj Bhavan Sabarna Sangrahashala Shaheed Minar Victoria Memorial Metcalfe Hall Writers' building Metropolitan Building Grand Hotel Shobhabazar Rajbari St. John's Church

High rises	Completed Chatterjee International Center South City Tata Centre Industry House Everest House Jeevan Sudha GOI Building Hiland Park Upcoming The 42 Urbana Uniworld City

Secondary	Birla High School Calcutta Boys' School Calcutta Girls High School Don Bosco School, Park Circus Hare School La Martiniere Calcutta Loreto School South Point School St. James' School St. Xavier's Collegiate School

Higher	Aliah University Asiatic Society Asutosh College Marine Engineering and Research Institute Bethune College Government College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology Medical College Kolkata Calcutta National Medical College Centre for Studies of Social Sciences Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management Indian Statistical Institute Jadavpur University Maulana Azad College Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology National Library of India Netaji Subhas Open University Presidency College Rabindra Bharati University Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics School of Tropical Medicine Scottish Church College St. Xavier's College University of Calcutta West Bengal University of Health Sciences West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences Calcutta School of Music

Industry and
economy

Road	Calcutta Tramways Company Calcutta State Transport Corporation Kalyani Expressway Kolkata BRTS West Bengal Surface Transport Corporation South Bengal State Transport Corporation Howrah Bridge (Rabindra Setu) Belghoria Expressway Vidyasagar Setu Vivekananda Setu Nivedita Setu Golden Quadrilateral Rickshaw Hand pulled rickshaw

Rail	Kolkata Metro Kolkata Circular Railway Kolkata Suburban Railway Eastern Railway South Eastern Railway Trams in Kolkata Kolkata LRTS Howrah railway station Kolkata railway station Sealdah railway station Shalimar railway station Kolkata Monorail

Sea	Port of Kolkata

Air	Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport List of Airports

Places of
worship

Sports

Other topics

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