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Saturday, June 12th, 2010 by admin
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Do aankhen baarah haath (1957)

Do aankhen baarah haath won many awards at international film festivals, including the Silver Bear in Berlin, and it remains the only Hindi mainstream film that has been screened at the London Film Festival to date. However, it was only post-1955 and the release of Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali (1955) that ‘art cinema’ emerged in ...

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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 by admin
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V. Shantaram (1901 – 1990)

After Barua’s Devdas set a nationwide trend for apocalyptic despondency, Shantaram felt the need to relay a more positive message to the country’s youth. Consequently, he made his masterpiece Aadmi (’39), where even after the hero loses his girl, he is shown not giving in to gloom but committing himself to his work. Similarly, a ...

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Saturday, April 24th, 2010 by admin
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Do Aankhen Barah Haath (1957)

Cast: V Shantaram, Sandhya Director: V Shantaram Music: Vasant Desai Lyrics: Bharat Vyas Capsule Review: Like the prolific filmmaker’s other humane drama Dr Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani made 15 years earlier with Shantaram and his real-life wife Jayshree in the lead, Do Aankhen … is the quasi-biographical story of a jailor (Shantaram) and his efforts ...

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