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Showing posts with label Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Show all posts
1 November 2020

A Portrait of the Doctor as an Angry Young Man

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My Mirror column: the seventh in my series on Indian films about doctors. What drives doctors to frustration in our cinema, and has that cha...
19 October 2020

How to treat a doctor

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My Mirror column:  As part of the ongoing series about doctors in our cinema, a look at humanitarianism and humility in Hrishikesh Mukherje...

The Doctor as Anti-Hero

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My Mirror column (this is the fourth piece in my series on doctors in our films): Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Bemisal (1982) can be viewed a...
11 June 2020

Driven From Home - I

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My Mirror column (24 May 2020): It’s time to revisit Bimal Roy’s 1953 neorealist melodrama, Do Bigha Zamin , which remains one of the ear...
24 April 2018

A Muted Sharpness

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My Mumbai Mirror column: The brilliant Jaya Bhaduri, who turned 70 earlier this month, once specialised in being the thinking man’s girl...
1 September 2017

Homing in, zooming out

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My Mirror column : Among 1957’s biggest Hindi hits was Musafir , a triptych of tales about a house and its succession of tenants, whic...
10 July 2017

Bombay Confidential

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My Mirror column : In a murder mystery set in the film industry 40 years ago, the crime writer HRF Keating tapped into our preoccupati...
8 May 2016

The hero and the human

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My BL Ink column  on 7 May, 2016: A Satyajit Ray classic that turned 50 this week, Nayak seems to come from a universe that is unrecogn...
27 September 2015

Driving in Many Directions

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Today's Mirror column : Ahead of Hrishikesh Mukherjee's birthday, a tribute to one of his finest, funniest films — 1975's Chu...
29 September 2014

Not Khubsoorat enough

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My Mumbai Mirror column: Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Khubsoorat was a delicious samosa of a film, crisp on the outside, but stuffed with w...