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Sasadhar Mukherji (1909 – 1990)
As the leading light of three successive studios — Bombay Talkies, Filmistan and Filmalaya, Sasadhar Mukherji was justly famous for making films that represented cloth cut to the viewers’ exact proportions. In keeping with Himanshu Rai’s policy to employ graduates, Sasadhar, an MSc, was offered the chance to work with Bombay Talkies as a sound ...
Mehboob Khan (1906 – 1964)
Unlettered and unrepentant, Mehboob’s genius lay in his ability to make exciting cinema in concurrence with his strong socialist beliefs (his banner depicted the hammer and sickle). The subliminal motif in most of his famous films was: the oppressed poor pitted against the oppressive rich — whether it was the woman (Nargis) against the zamindar ...
V. Shantaram (1901 – 1990)
After Barua’s Devdas set a nationwide trend for apocalyptic despondency, Shantaram felt the need to relay a more positive message to the country’s youth. Consequently, he made his masterpiece Aadmi (’39), where even after the hero loses his girl, he is shown not giving in to gloom but committing himself to his work. Similarly, a ...
K. Asif (1924 -1971)
A director and producer, Karimuddin Asif is best remembered for his dazzling period epic, Mughal-e-Azam. Born in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, he started off as assistant to his uncle, filmmaker and actor S. Nazir. In 1944, Asif directed his first feature, Phool, written by Kamal Amrohi. Asif turned producer with Hulchal in 1951. Karimuddin Asif always ...
Bimal Roy (1909-1966)
Bimal Roy’s fascination with the outer limits of the human experience gave cinema some of its most unforgettably complex characters. For instance: Kalyani of Bandini, whose murder of her ex-lover’s wife is not morally justifiable; the outcaste Sujata, labouring under an inferiority complex; the defeatist Devdas; the vengeful sprite Madhumati; and Sambhu Mahato, the ever-toiling ...
Manmohan Desai
In Mard, Dara Singh matched his strength with a plane! In Saccha Jhootha, Mumtaz took a truth pill and spilled the beans! In Amar Akbar Anthony, three sons donated blood to their mother – simultaneously! In director Manmohan Desai’s world, anything could happen – and did. Implausibilities galloped by before you were given a chance ...
Yash Chopra
Yash Chopra is, without doubt, one of the most significant directors to emerge from the Hindi popular cinema—or, as it is now more commonly known,”Bollywood.” Chopra began his career in the late 1950s making the romantic Dhool Ka Phool (1959) (Blossom of Dust), and throughout the 1960s made a number of impressive features such as ...
Mira Nair
Mira Nair came to international prominence with a successful first feature Salaam Bombay! (1988). She had begun her career as a documentary maker and brought the immediacy of that genre to her debut, which focused on a group of street kids forging a meager existence on the streets of Mumbai. The film’s success meant Nair ...
Subhash Ghai
Indian native Subhash Ghai began his film career after completing his education at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, Maharashtra. His first picture to receive critical recognition was Kalicharan (1976). It told the story of a police officer who goes undercover to investigate a socially connected individual with ties to crime; the ...
Shyam Benegal
At the start of his career, when his films Ankur (1974) (The Seedling) and Manthan (1976) (The Churning) were released to international acclaim, Shyam Benegal was widely seen as Indian cinema’s heir apparent to Satyajit Ray. Although his sympathies are essentially leftist, Benegal has never adopted the Marxist perspective of Mrinal Sen or Ritwik Ghatak; ...
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