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The L&C-Silhouette Basket

A hand-picked basket of cherries from the world of most talked about books and popular posts on creative literature, reviews and interviews, movies and music, critiques and retrospectives ...
to enjoy, ponder, wonder & relish!

Retrospective

Bimal Roy: Why He’s Evergreen

Ratnottama Sengupta revisits Bimal Roy’s enduring legacy, tracing how his humanism, realism and cinematic vision transformed Indian cinema and continue to inspire generations of filmmakers.

Anu Warrier on The ‘Guest Voices’ in Hindi Film Music
A very interesting and in-depth article, Prakash. Loved reading this. May I add to this list? P Jayachandran, one of the leading male playback singe...
Anu Warrier on Discovering Guru Dutt Through His Films
Miti, I'm coming late to this piece, but it was a joy to read. Like Raj Kapoor, Guru Dutt (and after him, Vijay Anand) also had an innate understandin...
Soumendu Bhattacherya on Uttam Saw Bengali Cinema Revive and Was Pained by Its Fall Again
Excellent is less for this! Great work.
Anshula Mondal on Discovering Guru Dutt Through His Films
Thank you so much Madhu ma'am for such beautiful words. All the hard work behind the research and writing feels worth it when the people reading these...
Anshula Mondal on Discovering Guru Dutt Through His Films
Thank you so much Ramendra Sir for such beautiful words. No doubt Guru Dutt's films and work still inspires generations of filmmakers and cinema lover...