So how does one sum up Smita’s achievement? At the risk of being misunderstood, let me say that she remained an actress in search of a director.
READ MORESmita Patil – Lost Presence
Published On Art House Cinema
The Studio as Superstar
In spite of volatile temperaments, fragile egos, and artistic moods, the studio system was for a whole fifteen years the only way to make films in India.
READ MORE
Hello Arsi (2018)
Hello Arsi is a critically acclaimed 2018 Odia film directed by Sambit Mohanty. Set in the backdrop of the mining belt of Rourkela, the film traces the story of a young man and a woman whose paths cross accidentally.
READ MORE
Why Preserve Films
Preservation of national cinema is the primary concern of any film archive. If we ourselves are not going to preserve our films, nobody else will do it for us. Archival reproduction of ‘Why Preserve Films’ by P.K. Nair.
READ MORE
Junoon (1978)
Junoon (Eng: Obsession) is a 1978 Hindi film directed by Shyam Benegal. Based on Ruskin Bond’s novella ‘A Flight of Pigeons’, the film is set around the Revolt of 1857, and a Pathan noble’s obsession for an English girl and the tragedy that war brings with itself.
READ MORE
Ghasiram Kotwal (1976)
Ghasiram Kotwal is a 1976 Marathi Film based on a play of the same name by Vijay Tendulkar. The film was the first venture of YUKT Film Cooperative, an experiment in collective filmmaking and was made by a group of filmmakers – K. Hariharan, Kamal Swaroop, Mani Kaul, and Saeed Akhtar Mirza.
READ MORE
Gaman (1978)
Gaman is a 1978 Hindi film made by Muzaffar Ali and has Farooq Shaikh and Smita Patil in main roles. The film is a take on the lives of migrants in big cities, as seen from the eyes of a young man from Uttar Pradesh who has to leave his wife back home and come to Bombay in search of better life, and ends up as a lonely taxi driver.
READ MORE