Amitava Nag’s latest work is a book on Soumitra Chatterjee based on his long interviews with the multi-faceted genius. Nag and Chatterjee shared a relationship that reached far beyond the ‘mentor-admirer’ equation. In a chat with the author he opens up on this long relationship with one of the greatest talents West Bengal has produced in the 20th century.
Hrishikesh Mukherjee was born in September 1922 and the 28th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) has organized a centenary tribute to Hrishikesh Mukherjee through the screening of eight of his wonderful films made over a career spanning four decades. The films chosen are – Abhimaan, Mili, Anuradha, Anand, Satyakaam, Anupama, Anari and Bemisaal.
my dossier has more commercial films than all the art films I did put together. I worked in Mahesh Bhatt’s Sir, Dharmesh Darshan’s Lootere, Karma with Dilip Kumar and Bonny Kapoor’s Rajkumar in which I did a double role. Today too, films like A Wednesday, Ishquiyan, and Dedh Ishqiya are the kind of films I just loved to dig my teeth into.
But the 34-year-old Ishaan Ghose is made of tougher stuff. His Jhilli is completely dedicated to a few characters whose life revolves around the Dhapa dump yard which is also their sole source of livelihood.
With his newly acquired skills, he elopes with a fellow performer, Molly Cahill (Rooney Mara), and begins a more respectable and successful career as a psychic and spiritualist among the elite in Chicago.
Departing significantly from its literary original with the filmmaker’s poetic license, The Green Knight has King Arthur (Sean Harris) at his Round Table with his queen, Guinevere (Kate Dickie), and his knights for a Christmas feast.
When Surekha Sikri won the National Award for her performance in Badhai Ho (2018), she was 73 and wheelchair bound.
“I never allow my sensibilities to follow the kind of rationality that is accepted and understood all over. I’d rather push it beyond the borders of rationality, where poetic rationality made creative endeavour more significant,” he said.
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