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TopicBasu Chatterjee

Topic: Basu Chatterjee

Khatta Meetha was Bollywood’s first blended-family film. Progressive without preaching

Triya Gulati -
The beauty of Basu Chatterjee’s storytelling in Khatta Meetha was that he didn’t show remarriage as something frowned upon or in need of justification.

Chitchor is all about a woman’s right to love. ‘Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon’ couldn’t match up

Tina Das -
Chitchor is all about a woman’s right to love. ‘Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon’ couldn't match up

Love, Bombay, middle-class — Basu Chatterjee’s ‘Rajnigandha’ is relevant even today

Mannat Chugh -
‘Rajnigandha’ articulated the conflicting thoughts of its woman protagonist, at a time when inner female turmoil wasn’t considered a crowd-puller or even an interesting film plot.

‘Chhoti Si Baat’ to ‘Piya Ka Ghar’, heritage walk takes you through Basu Chatterjee’s Bombay

Phorum Pandya -
Basu Da’s Bombay is a 4-km heritage walk through 1970s Mumbai via the lens of Basu Chatterjee—Chicken Alapoos to Eros Cinema dreams.

When Mukesh sang a hit song, but not for a male actor. It was in Rajnigandha

Anirudha Bhattacharjee -
In 'Basu Chatterji', Anirudha Bhattacharjee explores how Chatterji was Bollywood's 'middle-of-the-road' filmmaker.

‘Mard hoti toh collector hoti’ — Basu Chatterjee’s Apne Paraye is a study in family dynamics

Unnati Sharma -
On Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's 84th death anniversary, ThePrint revisits Basu Chatterjee’s 1980 movie 'Apne Paraye' based on the novel 'Nishkriti'.

Basu Chatterjee remembered, Congress maths lesson, Tata wants justice for the elephant

Tina Das -
The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

Basu Chatterjee told simple, heartfelt stories that had no heroes, only people like us

Samira Sood -
Even as action & masala took over the '70s, Basu Chatterjee gave us extraordinary films about ordinary people with ordinary lives.

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Opinion

Indian govt is scrambling to manage LPG shortage while denying it exists

Udit Bubna -
LPG shortage threatens to push poorer Indian households back to coal days—exactly what the Modi govt phased out.

Period pain is real. Blanket menstrual leave policy isn’t a fix

9.2% jump in arms transfer shows this is era of war—SIPRI reveals the temper we live in

Economy

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

Chitleen K Sethi -
At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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