I just hope that the industry quickly moves on from there and we see more of other genres and topics gaining as much love and affection from the audience. From Felu’da to Byomkesh, from Kakababu to Kiriti Roy, from Mitin Mashi to Shabor, everyone triggered their own franchise and in spite of the repetitiveness, the audience latched on to it, and almost all A-list stars could play one of these characters in one film or the other. This was also the decade of commercialization of all iconic sleuths and detectives from bengali literature. With their very different styles and stories, both of them created a loyal captive audience for their films and received significant commercial and critical acclaim. The era also saw two of the most prolific filmmakers of the industry emerge and rule with Kaushik Ganguly and Srijit Mukherji. It was his fearless courage that helped Bengali cinema to break taboos much ahead of the rest of the country and bring forward sensitive stories around homosexuality, coming of age, complex female psyche or other atypical relationships on screen with a much wider acceptance.
But he laid the foundation for many other filmmakers to come, and showed the way how to feel and tell stories about the deepest human relationships.
With him an era in Bengali cinema came to an end, and that gap could never be fulfilled the same way again. The biggest event that rocked the Bengali film industry in this decade was the shocking early demise of the legendary Rituparno Ghosh in 2013. Today we start the journey for Bengali films, and will recall the Best Bengali Films of the Decade. You can find all articles related to the Best of the Decade Here. We have already done a few articles on Hindi Films, listing the best films, best performances and the best musical albums of the period. The 2010s is coming to a close and we are in the process of compiling the Best of what cinema had to offer for us from 2010 – 2019.