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Partha Chatterjee
About the AuthorPartha Chatterjee
Partha Chatterjee writes on cinema, music, literature and related cultural matters. He is also a filmmaker.
    Cover page of Dadamoni: The Life and Times of Ashok Kumar. (Photo By Arrangement)Lifestyle
    Book Review | First among the equals of Old Bollywood’s heroes

    Ashok Kumar is one of the four pillars of old Hindi or Hindustani cinema, that is, from the mid-1930s to the 1970s. The...

    28 Aug 2022 12:00 AM IST

    Cover of the book.Lifestyle
    If wishes were horses, Satyapir would grant them and other legends

    Wendy Doniger's book Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares is a constant delight

    7 Nov 2021 9:53 AM IST

    In his short, intense, sad but artistically fruitful life Guru Dutt managed to communicate with a large audience who paid to see his films and sustained his production company; an absolute necessity in commercial Hindi cinema. (Photo: Amazon)Lifestyle
    Book Review | The eloquent outsider, lovingly remembered...

    Guru Dutt had the rare ability of being loved and commanding the loyalty of those who came in contact with him

    20 Jun 2021 1:40 AM IST

    The authors reading of DRs personality on the whole is accurate despite the scarcely concealed admiration of a gushing fan but the uncritical appreciation of the films made at Bombay Talkies owned by Himanshu Rai. By arrangementLifestyle
    A well-researched but uncritical portrait of Bollywood's first lady'

    Desai's reading of DR's personality on the whole is accurate despite the scarcely concealed admiration of a gushing fan

    28 March 2021 9:53 AM IST

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