From Saare Chuattor to Mouchak, Basanta Bilap to Sriman Prithwiraj; the golden era of black and white Bengali cinema had tickled the funny bone of movie buffs for years. The journey from black-and-white cinema to colour has been quite an enthralling one, yet there are some black-and-white comedy movies from yesteryear which we still love to watch any time and why not? Bengali cinema has been blessed with some of the finest actors who also excelled in comic avatars. With Chinmoy Roy’s demise, Bengali cinema has lost the last of the iconic comedians. The veteran actor was counted among the legends like Tulsi Chakraborty, Rabi Ghosh and Bhanu Bandyopadhyay and Jahar Roy. Here’s a list of some memorable yesteryear comedy films which you can’t just miss.
From Saare Chuattor to Mouchak, Basanta Bilap to Sriman Prithwiraj; the golden era of black and white Bengali cinema had tickled the funny bone of movie buffs for years. The journey from black-and-white cinema to colour has been quite an enthralling one, yet there are some black-and-white comedy movies from yesteryear which we still love to watch any time and why not? Bengali cinema has been blessed with some of the finest actors who also excelled in comic avatars. With Chinmoy Roy’s demise, Bengali cinema has lost the last of the iconic comedians. The veteran actor was counted among the legends like Tulsi Chakraborty, Rabi Ghosh and Bhanu Bandyopadhyay and Jahar Roy. Here’s a list of some memorable yesteryear comedy films which you can’t just miss.