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Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures – Film and History in the Post Colony
Author: Rochona Majumdar
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Price: Rs 699
Most of us who grew up watching films on Doordarshan in the eighties had no discretion or choice. As a kid I remember there were films that traumatised, like Billy Wilder’s Fedora or Datta Dharmadhikari’s Thamb Lakshmi Kunku Lavte. Ones that made you feel good, like Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Chupke Chupke or Shyam Benegal’s Manthan . Then, there was an entire category that I simply didn’t understand — like Mrinal Sen’s Khandhar. In that pre-internet, pre-satellite TV era there were
