title: Kolkata in the media
text: 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)
  City of Joy (Dominique Lapierre)
  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
  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
  
  Kolkata in popular culture