Actress Jaya Bachchan and lyricist Gulzar console each other as they pay their last respects at filmmaker Hrishikesh Mukherjee's funeral, in Mumbai. Many of the Mumbai film industr...
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Sunday 27 August
Eminent film maker Hrishikesh
Mukherjee, whose depiction of the virtues and foibles of the middle class carved a new genre in Indian cinema, died in a hospita...
Four months back, when I met Hrishida, he was quite unwell. I spoke to him informally about a lot of things then and had fixed up for a formal interview once he got better...
Hrishida's films had great music because he himself was musically inclined.
He played sitar for AIR and won quite a few inter-university music competitions.
Complete fimography and some of the favourite
Somewhere in the distance, from someone's Sony-Max channel, you can hear the strains of that song from the 1970 hit Anand, Kahin door jab din dhal jaye…
He claimed his cinema derived from Harindranath Chattopadhyaya's line which was also used as a dialogue in Bawarchi: "It is so simple to be happy but so difficult to be simple."
The book successfully unravels the wonderful and magical mind of Hrishikesh Mukherjee through all his films, some insightful interviews and many spicy anecdotes.