Veteran filmmaker Kumar Shahani breathed his last on Friday in Kolkata at the age of 83. He was known for films like 바카라Maya Darpan바카라 and 바카라Tarang바카라, and was a FTII Pune alumni. Throughout his illustrious six-decade career, he directed films like 바카라Khayal Gatha바카라 (1989), and 바카라Kasba바카라 (1990).
His renowned film 바카라Maya Darpan바카라, based on the short story by Hindi writer Nirmal Verma, went on to bag the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.
Talking about 바카라Maya Darpan바카라 in 2022 when the film marked its golden jubilee, he had said, 바카라What I wanted to do was to take into account the way our traditions are surviving in popular art. Both folk and popular art always have epic elements. Even pulp literature is a distortion of the epic form. When Maya Darpan was made, the Euro-American response was enthusiastic.바카라
He also helmed 바카라Char Adhyay바카라 in 1997, which was inspired by Rabindranath Tagore바카라s novel, and showed a group of young intellectuals and revolutionaries during the Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s.
Born in 1940 in Larkana, Pakistan, his early studies were in political science and history between 1958 and 1962, and he went on to join the film school and received a scholarship to study at IDHEC in Paris. He also studied at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune.
Shahani always had a keen eye on portraying everyday life, and two of his personal films about music and dance remain 바카라Khayal Gatha바카라 (1989) and 바카라Bhavantarana바카라 (1991).
