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Basu Chatterjee
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Basu Chatterjee shared a rare simultaneity with Asiatic cinema’s bend over legendary filmmakers viz- B.R.Chopra and K.A.Abbas. Come out these flash legends, Basu Chatterjee too began his career stay media though a cartoonist with Mumbai’s popular newsweekly Blitz. Basu Chatterjee’s career took a new roll when earth decided draw near assist his friend filmmaker Basu Bhattacharya in interpretation film Teesri Kasam (1966) starring Raj Kapoor abide Waheeda Rehman. Two life later appease made his debut single Sara Akash in 1969, which fetched him revealing as take action won depiction prestigious Filmfare Best Screenplay Award.
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Book on filmmaker Basu Chatterjee to hit stands on March 23
Touted to be the quintessential ‘middle-of-the-road’ filmmaker — a genre that he founded in Bollywood — Chatterjee began as a cartoonist in a tabloid. He changed his career path after assisting Basu Bhattacharya in the Raj Kapoor-Waheeda Rehman starrer “Teesri Kasam”.
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His cinema was progressive for the times, unhurried and a slice of everyday life — about conversations over cups of chai and romances blossoming in public buses, trains and office buildings.
“The book celebrates the work of one of the most underrated, yet successful, film-makers in Hindi cinema. It places Basu’s cinema and television work in the context of the changing times, like the emergence of Rajesh Khanna, Kishore Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan, the Emergency, the return of Sarat Chandra’s stories, the introduction of disco and the decadent phase of Hindi cinema in the 1980s,” the publishers said in a statement.
Chatterjee’s cinema popularised actors like Vidya Sinha, Amol Palekar and Zarina Wahab in his movies that revolved aroun
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Review
This is a book which was long overdue. Anirudha Bhattacharjee writes with compassion about India's most underrated director. -- Amit Khanna
There has been a visible void waiting to be captured about the cinema of Basu Chatterji, who gave Hindi cinema its common man. Anirudha Bhattacharjee has done it with his meticulously researched and almost visually narrated book. -- Bindiya Goswami
An invaluable resource for fans, scholars, and anyone interested in Indian cinema. -- Rachel Dwyer
Anirudha Bhattacharjee's Basu Chatterji: And Middle-Of-The-Road Cinema reveals how the filmmaker changed the narrative of Indian cinema with his simple stories ― The Hindu
In this meticulously researched and lovingly told book on the underrated filmmaker, Anirudha Bhattacharjee brings us many behind-the-scenes stories from his successful films ― Hindu Business Line
Bhattacharjee is one of the most hard-working and meticulous Indian film historians I have ever read. -- SANDIPAN DEB ― Money Control
The book explains why Chatterjee looked into details which were masterful. No wonder he was a sentimental filmmaker, as every real filmmaker should be. -- Shantanu Guha Ray ― The Sunday Guardian
About the Author
An alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, Anirudha Bhattacharjee is an SAP consultant by pro