Shashi Kapoor was born as Balbir Raj Kapoor to Prithviraj Kapoor and his wife in the then Calcutta, of British India, on 18 March 1938.
Yet, if you are looking at the film solely for Shyam Benegal’s magic touch, you could be quite disappointed. It seems less of a Benegal film and more of a state sponsored political agenda. Not only is history narrated rather selectively, but entire communities have been wiped off the surface of the storyline.
The play is set in the 1950s in an Arizonian desert replete with cactuses named Asteroid City which is quite similar to the setting of Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot”; Beckett’s play opens with two bedraggled acquaintances, Vladimir and Estragon, meeting by a lifeless tree.
To me, success is defined by the choices that I am getting to play different kinds of challenging roles in different kinds of films in recent years. It is great to be in a position where you have plenty of roles and films to choose from.
“The ‘male gaze’ is a theory propounded by Laura Mulvey. There is no ‘female gaze’ as such because both men and women are equally capable of it and have proved that a film’s success – art house or commercial – does not necessarily depend on exhibiting the woman’s body as a sexual object,” explains Shoma A. Chatterji, film scholar and writer, who has written extensively on gendered cinema.
Can we label Mithun as the reigning guru of Tollygunge’s mainstream cinema who constantly gives younger heroes like Prosenjit and Jeet a run for their money? Probably. He is the only star-actor in Bengali cinema who triumphantly walks the tightrope between mainstream and off-mainstream cinema having bagged three national awards in his portfolio.
It is the first ever full-length, Indian feature film that tackles the daring and fragile subject of sex reassignment surgery. This involves a series of life-threatening surgeries which Rudrajit Chatterjee (Rituparno Ghosh), an innovative and talented choreographer decides to go through even as he prepares to stage his interpretation of Tagore’s dance drama Chitrangada (1898).
Aribam Syam Sarma “obtained a Masters Degree in Philosophy from Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan. He is a philosopher. He searches for the aesthetic values of every object and understands it thoroughly. And it reflects into his films.
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