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Revisiting the parallel Indian cinema

Revisiting the parallel Indian cinema

May 27, 2021

In the era of 1970s and 80s, Bollywood produced films like Sholay (1975), Qayamat se Qayamat Tak (1988), Karz (1980) and many others that gave audiences angry young men, glamorous dance sequences, a series of over the top love stories and the ‘larger than life’ cinematic univ...

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Lesser known facts about Ritwik Ghatak

Lesser known facts about Ritwik Ghatak

November 4, 2017

An auteur whose works signify the melancholy and disorder associated with partition especially in Bengal and still finds relevance for his surreal realism; if at all such a genre exists – Ritwik Ghatak is himself a genre.

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