Weavers Studio presents the next edition of its monthly Textile Talks, featuring a presentation by filmmaker, scholar, and author Sangeeta Datta, titled Towards a Signature Visual Aesthetic: Colour, Texture, Design, Fabric in the World of Rituparno Ghosh. The session explores how one of India’s most influential filmmakers shaped a distinct visual language through his nuanced engagement with costume, textiles, set design, colour, and material detail.
Drawing from close collaborations and first-hand experience, Sangeeta Datta traces Ghosh’s journey from intimate middle-class contemporary narratives to richly layered Tagorean historicals and performance-driven cinema. The talk also reflects on Ghosh’s personal evolution as a cultural figure whose exploration of gender fluidity, costume, jewellery, and fabric positioned him not only as a filmmaker but also as a style icon whose aesthetic continues to influence cinema, fashion, and visual culture today.
For audiences, the presentation offers a rare behind-the-scenes understanding of how textiles and design shape cinematic storytelling, providing insights valuable to students of film, fashion, art, and cultural history.
Date: Saturday, 21 February 2026
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Venue: Weavers Studio, Ballygunge Place, Kolkata
About the Presenter
Sangeeta Datta is a writer, filmmaker, theatre director and musician, and a close collaborator of Rituparno Ghosh. She edited Rituparno Ghosh: Cinema, Gender and Art (Routledge) and directed the multi-award-winning docu–drama Shondher Pakhi (Bird of Dusk). She has authored several books on Indian cinema and Rabindranath Tagore.
About Textile Talks at Weavers Studio
Textile Talks is Weavers Studio’s ongoing monthly initiative dedicated to building a community of practitioners, researchers, and enthusiasts across the fields of textiles, cinema, art, design, and craft. Through lectures, presentations, and conversations with leading artists, scholars, and makers, the programme aims to create accessible platforms for knowledge-sharing while supporting the broader ecosystem of creative practices and cultural exchange.
About us –
Weavers Studio is a luxury textile studio based in Kolkata, India. Founded in 1993 by textile innovator Darshan Shah, today, Weavers Studio is a thriving community-based ecosystem. Encompassing a successful retail and export business run from a large handloom-nurturing factory with spinning, weaving and dyeing processes in-house. Plus, an incredible archive and library housing thousands of historical heritage textiles and books.
Contact Details
Business Name: Weavers Studio
Address: Weavers Studio, Kolkata 5/1, Anil Maitra Rd, Ballygunge Place, Ballygunge 700019
Phone : 098311 59080
Mail : [email protected]
Website : https://www.weaversstudio.in
