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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.

Contents 1 Travelogues 2 Books 3 Bengali films 4 English films 5 Hindi films

Travelogues

• The Great Railway Bazaar (Paul Theroux)
• Following the Equator (Mark Twain)

Books

• 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)

Bengali films

• Apur Sansar - The world of Apu (Satyajit Ray)
• Mahanagar - The Big City (Satyajit Ray)
• Agantuk (Satyajit Ray)
• Calcutta 71 (Mrinal Sen)
• Interview (Mrinal Sen)
• Ek Din Pratidin (Mrinal Sen)
• Antareen (Mrinal Sen)
• Meghe Dhaka Tara - The Cloud Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak)
• Jukti Takko Aar Gappo - Logic, Debate and Story (Ritwik Ghatak)
• Parama Aparna Sen
• Unishe April - Nineteenth April(Aparna Sen)
• Chokher Bali - Sand in the Eye Rituparno Ghosh

English films

• Calcutta (Louis Malle)
• 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)

Hindi films

• Howrah Bridge
• Amar Prem
• Do Bigha Zameen
• Devdas(1955)
• Devdas(2002)
• Ram Teri Ganga Maili
• Calcutta Mail
• Hazaar Chauraasi Ki Maa
• Parineeta
• Yuva
• Raincoat