Ashadh Ka Ek Din (1971)
Ashadh Ka Ek Din (1971), based on Mohan Rakesh’s play of the same name, is Mani Kaul’s adaptation of the love triangle between Sanskrit poet Kalidasa, Mallika, and Priyangmanjari.
Dooratwa (1978)
Dooratwa (1978), Buddhadev Dasgupta’s debut feature, is a spare and poetically rendered Bengali drama — adapted from a Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay short story — that examines marital estrangement when a Kolkata professor discovers his young wife is pregnant by another man, winning the National Film Award for Best Bengali Feature Film.
Kodiyettam (1977)
Kodiyettam, released in 1977 and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, stands as one of the defining works of the Malayalam New Wave cinema.
Akramana (1979)
Akramana (The Conquest) is a 1979 Kannada film directed by Girish Kasaravalli. It had Vijaya Kashi, Vaishali Kasaravalli, Padmashree and Chandrakumar Jain in the lead roles. The film is a psychodrama revolving around its three protagonists, their struggle to break free from the limitations of family and tradition, and the ultimate acceptance of the realities of life.
Partap Singh remembers Sukhdev
Sukhdev was certainly the greatest Indian documentary film-maker that ever lived. A gentle, a clown, an extraordinary friend, Sukhdev had no pretension to him, He could not brook pettiness, puffery or prudery.