by Subhojit Sanyal Directed by: Dibakar Banerjee Starring: Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi, Kalki Koechlin, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Tillotama Shome, Farooq Sheikh The title couldn’t be helped. […]
Mata Hari became famous for her exotic temple dance that enchanted the men of Europe. Her undressing during the act came to be known as a ‘spiritual act.’ Her acts were surreal with the audience deeply engrossed watching her immersed in her art.
Abanindranath was an enigma and continues to be one. His Bharat Mata has been the perfect representation of Mother India. Painted in 1905, the year of Bengal Partition of 1905, Mother is depicted wearing a saffron wrap, like a ‘Sadhvi’.
The visual magnificence of the entire city is sublimely tantalising. Dhobi Ghaat now seems like a pretence of Mumbai, but That Girl in Yellow Boots shows the city the way we have known it to really be.
Pritilata and Kalpana Dutt were sent off to Kolkata by their parents before the first attack in 1930 but they kept in touch with the people and events, and joined the team in September, 1931
