Smita Patil
“Mahesh Bhatt Offered Me Smita Patil’s Role In Arth,” Mala Sinha
Mala Sinha who turned 86 on 11 November, is in my opinion the most underrated actress of Hindi cinema. Her repertoire is staggering, But she is not acknowledged among the all-time greats. Take Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa. While Waheeda Rehman’s performance is rightly celebrated, Mala Sinha’s far more complex character has largely been ignored. At first Guru Dutt made blithe effervescent films like Mr & Mrs 55 , Aar Paar and Baazi .As a deep melancholy set into the artiste’ soul, Guru Dutt’s cinema grew deep, dark, retrospective and brooding. Pyaasa was a homa | Click Here...
Mahesh Bhatt’s Arth-Shattering Association With Smita Patil
To have known Smita Patil, is to have touched a force of Nature . “She was this untameable stream gushing down from the Himalayas which I had the privilege of having touched in my life, before it disappeared into the mountains again,” says filmmaker-thinker Mahesh Bhatt who directed Smita in one of her best films. “Arth, yes.But I did direct Smita again in a film called Thikana when she was pregnant. We had to take very good care of her.Scenes that required her to touch the dramatic summits of Arth were not shot to avoid tension,” Bhatt reveals. He remembers mee | Click Here...
Bollywood Actresses Who Look Like Each Other’s Twin Sisters: From Divya Bharti-Sridevi To Smita Patil-Chitrangada Singh
We at IWMBuzz today are here with actresses from Bollywood, whose faces have uncanny similarities with other Bollywood actresses. We have briefed them up down beneath, and you will be shocked to see the similarities they share without any blood relation. Here take a look at the pictures as shared by ABP Live. 1. Both Sridevi and Divya Bharti were popular actresses of Bollywood, whose magnificence had a great many fans. However, the two looked almost the same. | Click Here...
8 Unknown Facts About Smita Patil
1. Smita Patil was a newscaster in Marathi on Mumbai Doordarshan when Shyam Benegal who has given Indian cinema some of the most formidable talent, spotted her. The rest as they say is history. 2. Benegal cast Smita in some of her most memorable roles in Manthan and Bhumika. But he clearly gave his other favourite Shabana Azmi the much bigger portion of roles.A fact that Smita deeply resented. The rivalry between the actresses persisted right till her death. 3. One major filmmaker who worked with Smita and not Shabana was Govind Nihalani who was once quoted as saying he would | Click Here...
Tabu Or Radhika Apte For Smita Patil Bio-Pic?
There have been numerous attempts to make the authoritative bio-pic on the late Smita Patil who died at the age of 31 in 1986 after giving birth to her son Prateik. It’s a story that has all the elements of a bestseller: drama, passion, infidelity, adultery and a life tragically cut short by death at the peak of its productivity. Why did Smita have to go so early? The question has haunted her fans for 34 years. Earlier on, one of Smita’s favourite directors Govind Nihalani wanted keenly to make a film on her. So did Ketan Mehta who directed in her most iconic film Mirch Masala. B | Click Here...
Lockdown Classics: Mirch Masala (1987)
Smita Patil died before she could see herself in Mirch Masala. Would she have placed it among her best works? She missed out on one of her most alluring performances in a film that refuses to age. What is it about Mirch Masala that is so tantalizing and engaging? Is it the congregation of these beautiful women in a Gujarati village, all strong and yet lorded over by the rules of a patriarchal society? 25 years after it was made Ketan Mehta’s Mirch Masala remains an enigmatic mesmeric parable on women’s rights. On the topmost level of perception it’s an excellent thriller | Click Here...
Shashi Kapoor: The Gentleman Actor Who Lashed Out In The Press Only Once
Forever the thorough gentleman Shashi Kapoor’s interaction with the press was impeccable. Polite, well-behaved and utterly dignified, he never lost his cool in print (there was no internet back then). But the one time that Shashi lost his cool and lashed out in print was when his dear beloved wife Jennifer Kapoor did not win the National award for her extraordinary performance in Aparna Sen’s 36 Chowringhee Lane. Strangely Shashi Kapoor lashed out at Smita Patil rather than Rekha who won the National award that year for Umrao Jaan. Explains a source, “Even when | Click Here...
5 Most Influential Films Starring A Female Hero
In recent times there’s been a torrent of films where the heroine has taken centre stage. In the first two months of 2020 alone there were at least three major heroine-centric films Chhapaak, Panga and Thappad. In the past, films featuring women in central roles were rare. Here are 5 films from the past where the female hero took centre stage. 1. Mother India (1958): Nargis Dutt was in her 20s when she played her future husband Sunil Dutt’s 70-year old mother in Mehboob Khan’s magnum opus Mother India, an epic tale of Good Son, Bad Son and Conflicted Moth | Click Here...
Dr. Shriram Lagoo’s life journey from doctor to king of theatre
One of the finest gems to influence several generations altogether, Dr. Lagoo is truly justified for the title of Natasamrat. His first appearance was in school plays, and the most talented part was that he used to not only say his part but the dialogues of his colleagues too. Shriram Lagoo was from a school that had a great dramatic history. Bhave School had shaped several alumni like Smita Patil, Rohini Hattangadi and several others, to make their mark as actors. After his schooling, he took admission to Fergusson College, Pune, wherewith his company of his friends, he was more inf | Click Here...
What is common between Smita Patil and Esha Deol Takhtani?
You are surprised right? Smita Patil acted in Satyajit Ray's 45 minutes short length Hindi feature film Sadgati based on Munshi Premchand's story, which was premiered in Doordarshan in 1981. Incidentally, that was India's first Hindi short feature film which was exclusively aired on television. It seems after almost 38 years, debutant filmmaker Ram Kamal Mukherjee is all set to create history with his short length Hindi feature Cakewalk, which will be aired on any private high defination movie channel for the first time. According to our source, "Ram Kamal's film definitely opened gates for | Click Here...