# 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

* The Great Railway Bazaar (Paul Theroux)
* Following the Equator (Mark Twain)

## Books

* Around the World in Eighty Days
* Calcutta (Geoffrey Moorhouse)
* City of the Dreadful Night and American Tales (Rudyard Kipling) - Where Kolkata is called as the titular city
* City of Joy (Dominique Lapierre) - a slum within Kolkata is called the City of Joy
* 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 - According to the production notes the city acts as a character showing its colonial history and ancient historical relics
* 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

Vedalam

### Telugu films

* Naayak
* Padi Padi Leche Manasu

### Malayalam Films

* Vasthuhara
* Calcutta News
* Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi

### Hindi films

* Howrah Bridge
* Pyaasa
* Amar Prem
* Do Bigha Zameen
* Devdas (1955)
* Devdas (2002)
* Ram Teri Ganga Maili
* Calcutta Mail
* Hey Ram
* Do Anjaane
* Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa
* Morning Walk
* Parineeta
* Vicky Donor
* Yuva
* Raincoat
* Kahaani (2012)
* Barfi!
* I Am
* Khushi
* Love Aaj Kal
* Calcutta Mail
* Gunday
* Badmaash Company
* Kaminey
* Michael by Ribhu Dasgupta
* Lootera
* No One Killed Jessica
* Special 26
* Bullet Raja
* Kolkata Junction
* Babumoshai Bandookbaaz
* Piku
* Highway
* Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
* Hamari Adhuri Kahani
* Tamasha
* Te3n
* Kahaani 2
* Meri Pyaari Bindu
* Jagga Jasoos
* Pari
* Dhadak
* Chippa