HATFIELD – Nita Das stood before a group of North Penn ESL teachers and gave some examples of common basic phrases in Bengali. She pointed to ‘chesta koro,’ which means ‘please try’ in English – an ...

Overwhelmed at being invited to inaugurate the 19th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF), megastar Shah Rukh Khan Sunday said he would learn Bengali from actress-politician Jaya Bachchan to be a ...

Deepika Padukone is learning Bengali for her film Piku. The 28-year-old has been doing workshops with the film's Bengali director Shoojit Sircar, and has had help with her language skills and ...

Kolkata, Jan 19 (IANS) A.C.V. Ananda Bose, the new governor of West Bengal, will soon take Bengali lessons, sources said here on Thursday. A ceremonial beginning as per Hindu rituals will start on ...

Actor Ayushmann Khurrana, who will be seen playing a Bengali novelist named Abhimanyu Roy in the forthcoming film "Meri Pyaari Bindu", says it was fun learning the language. Being a true blue Punjabi, ...

After learning Tamil for Chennai Express last year and flaunting a Maharashtrian accent for Happy New Year, recently, actor Deepika Padukone is now learning Bengali for her next film, Piku, that’s ...