Based on memoir of Marathi actor Hansa Wadkar, Smita Patil's Bhumika, a film by Shyam Benegal, is a brutal & unflinching look at the life of a female movie star in Bombay.
The story of a Muslim man raising a Hindu child born out of wedlock is not only a plea for communal peace, but also questions the sexist mores of the times.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
As a movie, no doubt, this was quite a stellar display of craft. However, to completely make this a problem of India was disingenuous. Just a bunch of communist trying to convince us that we were losers. Somehow, to place the blame completely at India’s door sounds like fraudulent narrative peddling.
As a movie, no doubt, this was quite a stellar display of craft. However, to completely make this a problem of India was disingenuous. Just a bunch of communist trying to convince us that we were losers. Somehow, to place the blame completely at India’s door sounds like fraudulent narrative peddling.
One of the best International movies of all times. The acting was top class. So was the music. Maula Saleem Chisthi:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RpW9a4ALBpI
Sad to see even after 50 years since this film came out, we’re nowhere near resolving the problem of partition.
What a movie! A moving tale. Brilliant acting by Balraj Sahani. It had moved me to tears, I remember, in 1974.