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

Around the World in Eighty Days
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)
Kaalbela - Calcutta My Love (Goutam Ghose) (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 Last Lear
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)

Tamil films

Telugu films

Naayak
Padi Padi Leche Manasu

Malayalam Films

Hindi films

Kolkata topics

Localities and streets

Kolkata metropolitan area
Neighbourhoods
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Streets (list)

Buildings

Belvedere Estate Indian Museum Jorasanko Thakur Bari Calcutta High Court Currency Building Bankshall Court Marble Palace National Library of India Netaji Bhawan Raj Bhavan, Kolkata Sabarna Sangrahashala Shaheed Minar Victoria Memorial St. Paul's Cathedral Metcalfe Hall Writers' Building Metropolitan Building Grand Hotel Shobhabazar Rajbari
High rises	Chatterjee International Center South City Tata Centre Industry House Everest House Jeevan Sudha Government of India Building Hiland Park The 42 Urbana Uniworld City

Secondary

Higher

Industry and
economy

Road	Calcutta Tramways Company Calcutta State Transport Corporation Kalyani Expressway Kolkata Bus Rapid Transit System West Bengal 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 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

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

Places of
worship

Hindu	Belur Math Birla Mandir, Kolkata Dakshineswar Kali Temple Kalighat Kripamayee Kali Temple Baranagar Math Alambazar Math
Christian	St. Paul's Cathedral Holy Rosary Cathedral (Portuguese Church) St. John's Church Parasnath Temple
Others	Nakhoda Mosque Tipu Sultan Mosque Chinese temples in Kolkata Magen David Synagogue

Sports

Other topics

Category

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