Vidyarthy Chatterjee, who wrote on cinema for leading publications like The Statesman and The Economic Times for over three decades writes on Vastupurush by Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukhtankar, in which he saw the germs of a new Marathi cinema
“It is regional cinema that is at the cutting edge of new Indian films. It is evident that nowhere is the renegotiation of the Indian identity in this new age of consumerism being better analyzed than in the low budget regional cinema.”
Asha Kasbekar Richards
This writer fondly visualizes the day when the history of a rejuvenated Marathi cinema, circa 2002 onwards, comes to be written by a sensitive and intelligent film-lover, preferably someone to the language and culture born. Ideally, one of the first chapters of such an effort could be named ‘From Sumitra and Sunil’s stable’. One is speaking of the sociologist- turned- filmmaker Sumitra Bhave and her artistic collaborator,...
“It is regional cinema that is at the cutting edge of new Indian films. It is evident that nowhere is the renegotiation of the Indian identity in this new age of consumerism being better analyzed than in the low budget regional cinema.”
Asha Kasbekar Richards
This writer fondly visualizes the day when the history of a rejuvenated Marathi cinema, circa 2002 onwards, comes to be written by a sensitive and intelligent film-lover, preferably someone to the language and culture born. Ideally, one of the first chapters of such an effort could be named ‘From Sumitra and Sunil’s stable’. One is speaking of the sociologist- turned- filmmaker Sumitra Bhave and her artistic collaborator,...
- 6/21/2011
- by Vidyarthy Chatterjee
- DearCinema.com
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