Anand
1971
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May 6, 2024 · Hrishikesh Mukherjee (born September 30, 1922, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died August 27, 2006, Mumbai, India) was an Indian filmmaker who, in a Bollywood career that spanned more than four decades (1953–98), made some 50 Hindi-language films. Mukherjee began his career as a film editor in Calcutta’s Bengali-language film industry in ...
Sep 30, 2022 · Hrishikesh Mukherjee: Stories, songs, and socialism His films, often loosely labelled as middle-of-the-road cinema, deserve a more engaged appraisal. Published : Sep 30, 2022 10:04 IST
Aug 27, 2019 · New Delhi: Born on 30 September, 1922 in Kolkata, filmmaker Hrishikesh Mukherjee studied science and chemistry, and even taught mathematics, before turning to camera work, film editing and eventually directing movies. It was in 1951, when he had moved to Mumbai and began assisting director Bimal Roy, that his career in the movies really took off.
Aug 26, 2017 · Remembering Hrishikesh Mukherjee on his birth anniversary: The gentle and professorial auteur of warm-hearted comedies. Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s (Hrishi-da to friends and acquaintances) films were simple but never simple-minded. The much-loved director of Satyakam, Anand, Chupke Chupke, Bawarchi and Gol Maal was a father-figure to a retinue of ...
Sep 30, 2022 · The Everyday Magic of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. On the legendary filmmaker’s birth anniversary, we celebrate the world he created and the stories he told. Harsh B.H. Updated on : 30 Sep 2022, 8:38 am. At one point in Bawarchi (1972), Raghu (Rajesh Khanna), the newly-appointed servant casually professes to one of the family members, “It is so ...
Aug 27, 2019 · This dialogue, immortalised by Rajesh Khanna who played the namesake in the 1971 classic-Anand, sums up the life of its legendary director Hrishikesh Mukherjee. It’s a moment in the film which evokes an amalgam of pathos and hope.
Sep 30, 2022 · In Jai Arjun Singh’s 2015 book The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee, the writer and journalist describes how this particular brand of unthinking criticism is often levelled at the director’s Namak Haraam, the 1973 Rajesh Khanna-Amitabh Bachchan comedy. Apparently, certain prominent socialists—and filmmakers sympathetic to their aims—were ...
