19. Halloween Horror: Kankal (1950)

Support the show! 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 Indiancine.ma: https://indiancine.ma/FWQ/info https://indiancine.ma/DGE/info Wikipedia