Bong-Up Job
Bengali writers aimed for a more genteel kind of pulpâ literary but not bound by the plausible.
by Jai Arjun Singh
Oct 06, 2018
2 minutes
For readers conditioned to think of Bengali culture as dauntingly highbrow, the idea of Bangla pulp can be hard to digest, much like the realisation that actors like Soumitra Chatterjee didn't feature only in Satyajit Ray's cinema but also in dozens of shoddily made potboilers.
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