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| location = [[AJC Bose Road|Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road]] and Cathedral Road junction
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'''Nandan''' is a government-sponsored film and cultural centre in [[Kolkata]], India.<ref name="Nandan West Bengal Film Center">{{cite web|title=Nandan West Bengal Film Center|url=http://www.tathyabangla.gov.in/doc/NANDAN-WEST_BENGAL_FILM_CENTRE.pdf|publisher=West Bengal Government|access-date=8 May 2013}}{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The primary aim of the cultural hub is to encourage and facilitate cinematic awareness in society. It includes a few comparatively large screens housed in an impressively architectured building. The complex, besides being a modern cinema and cultural complex, is a popular destination for the young and the aged alike.

Nandan is one of the main venues of the [[Kolkata International Film Festival]], hosting it till 2010.
While in 2011 the opening and closing ceremonies was shifted to [[Netaji Indoor Stadium]], Nandan remains the main centre for the festival.

== History ==
The foundation stone of Nandan was laid by former Chief Minister of West Bengal [[Jyoti Basu]] in 1980<ref name="The ‘unthinkable’: A Nandan minus its mascot">{{cite news|title=The ‘unthinkable’: A Nandan minus its mascot|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110101/jsp/nation/story_13378537.jsp|access-date=8 May 2013|newspaper=The Telegraph Calcutta}}</ref> and it was inaugurated by film-maker [[Satyajit Ray]] on 2 September, 1985.<ref>{{cite book|title=Kolkata: City Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eUq9heKpjEIC&pg=PA67|access-date=9 May 2013|year=2011|publisher=Goodearth Publications|isbn=978-93-80262-15-4|pages=66–67}}</ref> He designed the now-famous logo for the complex as well.<ref name="Auditorium on stilts in Nandan plan">{{cite news|title=Auditorium on stilts in Nandan plan|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110602/jsp/calcutta/story_14058929.jsp|access-date=8 May 2013|newspaper=The Telegraph Calcutta}}</ref> Initially, Nandan had two auditoriums, a third auditorium was made soon after.<ref name="Nandan’s litmus test" />

In April 2011, the false ceiling of a Nandan auditorium crashed down. Right after the incident, the West Bengal government decided to refurbish Nandan, starting the renovation work with the construction of a new false ceiling for Nandan I. For the first phase of the renovation project, West Government gave {{INRConvert|2.5|m}} to the Nandan authorities.<ref name="Auditorium on stilts in Nandan plan" /> The restoration works completed weeks before the 2011 Kolkata International Film Festival.<ref name="Nandan’s litmus test">{{cite news|title=Nandan's litmus test|url=http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/JfsPReuf4GGmc6IHvaU9SM/Nandan8217s-litmus-test.html|access-date=8 May 2013|newspaper=Live Mint}}</ref>

{{As of|2013|02}} The Nandan committee is headed by Bengali film director [[Sandip Ray]]. Few other members of the managing committee are [[Aparna Sen]], [[Prabhat Roy]], [[Ranjit Mallick]] etc.<ref name="Cultural hubs on their knees">{{cite news|title=Cultural hubs on their knees|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130210/jsp/calcutta/story_16544875.jsp#.UYp450rkrSE|access-date=8 May 2013|newspaper=Telegraph Calcutta}}</ref>

=== Nandan and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee ===
[[File:BuddhadebBabu.jpg|thumb|left|Ex Chief Minister of West Bengal [[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]] has a long relation with Nandan. In 1980 he laid the foundation stone of the theatre and for a long time Nandan was his favourite haunt.]]

Ex Chief Minister of West Bengal [[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]] has a long relation with Nandan. In 1980 he laid the foundation stone of the theatre. After losing the 1982 assembly election from Cossipore, he did not come to Nandan till 1987, when he changed constituency to Jadavpur and after winning the election.<ref name="The ‘unthinkable’: A Nandan minus its mascot" />

After becoming the Chief Minister of West Bengal in 2001, he started visiting the auditorium more frequently. Till 1995 he did not have own room here. Then he got a 300 sqft carpeted room on Nandan's second floor. Here he often used to meet personalities like [[Sunil Gangopadhyay]], [[Soumitra Chatterjee]] etc. and proofread his writings on [[Manik Bandopadhyay]] or [[Jibanananda Das]].<ref name="The ‘unthinkable’: A Nandan minus its mascot" />

After being defeated at the 2011 assembly elections of West Bengal by the Trinamool congress candidate Manish Gupta, Bhattacharjee stopped coming here. According to a report published in ''[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]]'' in July 2011, two months after West Bengal's assembly elections, Bhattacharjee almost stopped visiting his favourite evening spot.<ref name="For CM, it’s party before Nandan - How red was our culture valley then">{{cite news|title=For CM, it's party before Nandan – How red was our culture valley then|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100725/jsp/frontpage/story_12723942.jsp|access-date=8 May 2013|newspaper=The Telegraph|location=Calcutta}}</ref>

=== Arrest of artists during 2007 Kolkata International Film Festival ===
On 11 November 2007 afternoon, actors, artists and writers of West Bengal were demonstrating at a protest in Cathedral Road against ''[[Nandigram violence]]'' in which at least 14 people died. At the same time, the ''[[Kolkata International Film Festival]]'' was going on in the theatres on Nandan. Kolkata Police and Rapid Action Force personnel were sent to the spot who arrested nearly 100 protesters including 20 women. The list of people who were arrested on the day included actor [[Parambrata Chatterjee]], actress Bidipta Chakraborty etc. They were released after five hours after a meeting between deputy commissioner (headquarters) Vineet Goyel and a group of protesters led by director [[Aparna Sen]], [[Gautam Ghose]] and Bengali poet [[Sankha Ghosh]]. Later, actor Parambrata Chatterjee told that he could not figure out the reason of the arrest— "I don’t know on what grounds we were arrested. We did not step into Nandan, nor did we have any arms and ammunition. We were sitting outside the Academy of Fine Arts, singing."<ref name="Actors locked up in protest swoop">{{cite news|title=Actors locked up in protest swoop|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071112/asp/calcutta/story_8537004.asp|access-date=8 May 2013|newspaper=The Telegraph|location=Calcutta}}</ref>

== Programs and festivals ==
[[File:Sunil Gangopadhyay at Krittibas stall in Nandan.jpg|thumb|Deceased poet [[Sunil Gangopadhyaya]] in ''Krittibash'' book stall in little magazine festival in Nandan]]
Nandan has been a cultural hub of Kolkata for a long time. Memorial lectures and special programs are organised here on regular basis. Nandan also organises a Social Communication Film Festival in collaboration with ''Roopkala Kendra''.<ref name="Nandan West Bengal Film Center" />

=== Kolkata International Film Festival ===
{{Main article|Kolkata International Film Festival}}
Kolkata International Film Festival started in 1995 and is India's third oldest film festival.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://festagent.com/en/festivals?country[]=71&sort_by=since#kolkata_fest|title=Festagent, a directory of festivals from all over the world (India)|website=Festagent|language=en|access-date=2020-02-02}}</ref> Nandan is one of the main venues of this festival.<ref name="Nandan West Bengal Film Center" /> Till 2010 the film festival used to be inaugurated at Nandan. In 2011, Mamata Banerjee, after becoming the Chief Minister of West Bengal, shifted the ceremony from Nandan to the [[Netaji Indoor Stadium]].<ref name="Nandan’s litmus test" />

=== Little Magazine Festival ===
A [[little magazine]] festival is organised by ''[[Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi]]'' in the Nandan premises every year.<ref name="Adda of Kolkata">{{cite web|title=Adda of Kolkata|url=http://www.sabjanta.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=140%3Akolkatar-adds&Itemid=66|publisher=Sabjanta|access-date=8 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030952/http://www.sabjanta.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=140:kolkatar-adds&Itemid=66|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The festival commenced in 2001.<ref name="Fairs and Festivals">{{cite web|title=Fairs and Festivals|url=http://www.tathyabangla.gov.in/content/fairs-festivals|publisher=West Bengal Government|access-date=8 May 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315132933/http://www.tathyabangla.gov.in/content/fairs-festivals|archive-date=15 March 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Little magazine publishers from outside India (like [[Bangladesh]]) have also joined this festival.<ref name="Bangladesh little mag editors attend festival in Kolkata">{{cite web|title=Bangladesh little mag editors attend festival in Kolkata|url=http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=93980&date=2012-01-15|work=The Financial Express|access-date=8 May 2013}}</ref>

== Controversies ==
There have been complaints against Nandan that screening of controversial films are often shunned here on political pressure. In 2005 Nandan committee disallowed screening of ''[[Herbert (film)|Herbert]]'' commenting the film would send out wrong signals to audiences.<ref name="Nandan’s litmus test" /> ''One Day from a Hangman's Life'' directed by Joshy Joseph was banned here after getting instruction from the Chief Minister of West Bengal.<ref name="A free spirit on celluloid">{{cite news|title=A free spirit on celluloid|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090405/spectrum/main3.htm|access-date=8 May 2013|newspaper=The Tribune}}</ref> ''[[Arekti Premer Golpo]]'' (2010), directed by [[Kaushik Ganguly]], which dealt with homosexuality, was also barred at this theatre. Moinak Biswas, associate professor at Jadavpur University, whose film ''Sthaniyo Sangbad'' was disallowed in Nandan in 2010 commented— "Since all these films, including mine, had a censor certificate, it wasn’t Nandan's role to play super censor."<ref name="Nandan’s litmus test" /> In May 2013, the theatre refused to screen the Bengali film ''[[Kagojer Nouka]]'' directed by Partha Sarathi Jowardar. The film revolved around a [[chit fund]] scam. Jowardar told to media that they sent the movie to Nandan authority for preview but he thought he did not even see the film before barring it.<ref name="WB: Mamata government-owned theatre refuses to screen 'Kagojer Nouka">{{cite news|title=WB: Mamata government-owned theatre refuses to screen 'Kagojer Nouka'|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/wb-mamata-governmentowned-theatre-refuses-to-screen-kagojer-nouka/391565-8-73.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618011845/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/wb-mamata-governmentowned-theatre-refuses-to-screen-kagojer-nouka/391565-8-73.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 18, 2013|access-date=16 May 2013|newspaper=IBNLive|date=May 14, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Little screen space for film on chit funds">{{cite news|title=Little screen space for film on chit funds|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/little-screen-space-for-film-on-chit-funds/1116424/|access-date=16 May 2013|newspaper=Indian Express|date=16 May 2013}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Priya Cinema (Kolkata)]]

== References ==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.kff.in/ Kolkata Film Festival]

{{Cinema in Kolkata}}
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[[Category:Tourist attractions in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Culture of Kolkata]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Cinemas in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Arts centres in India]]
[[Category:1985 establishments in West Bengal]]

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