Born in Dina (now in Pakistan) a part of Jhelum district in 1934, Gulzar imbibed his love for Urdu and poetry from his Urdu teacher in Delhi’s United Christian School “where Urdu was the medium of instruction till Independence.”
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 concept of ‘homelessness’ described so lucidly by Ranjani Mazumdar her seminal essay does not apply to the “outsider” as interpreted in and through the characters in the cinema of Bimal Roy.
Dutt’s early childhood was spent within the cramped space of a small flat in Matunga in Bombay (now Mumbai). His father shifted from one job to another, leaving the family in a perpetual state of economic instability.
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.
Arun Mukherjee of Chetana has translated the English version of this play to Bengali and this is the version that is being performed right now across the city. It is named Mahatma Bonaam Gandhi and it opens in the dark with the sound of three gunshots piercing the silence followed by the utterance of Hey Ram.
His latest film Love Marriage, is a rip-roaring, rollicking comedy where the fun cuts across three generations of a single family who tread on each other’s toes unwittingly.
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