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19. Halloween Horror: Kankal (1950)
Maybe Today Matinee
English - October 20, 2020 09:26 - 53 minutes - 73.1 MBFilm History TV & Film Arts Performing Arts Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Your hosts are at odds over this week’s pick, Naresh Mitra’s Kankal. Regarded as the first still-extant Bengali horror film, it combines elements of melodrama and supernatural horror. We examine the history of scary movies in India and ponder to what degree shoddy subtitling impedes our understanding of this polarizing picture.
Sources
Dhusiya, Mithuraaj in Indian Horror Cinema: (En)gendering the Monstrous https://books.google.com/books?id=jukrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT35&lpg=PT35&dq=Kankaal+Bengali+movie&source=bl&ots=Et6LEwMc_k&sig=HDjTLlfLMYQsrM5ex6_ggvykqXg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjZ9r7Ahf7dAhWLbX0KHe3BBjI4ChDoATAGegQIAxAB#v=onepage&q=Kankaal%20Bengali%20movie&f=false
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