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Amrit Gangar

Amrit Gangar

Articles by Amrit Gangar

Hamlet to Bhumika: Benegal and Bombay’s theatre world

With such backstage expertise acquired in Bombay’s English theatre of the 1960s, Benegal could direct his magnum opus, Bhumika (The Role). (HT Archive)

Updated on Dec 23, 2025 14:54 IST

Ritwik Ghatak Birth Centenary: Cloud-capped star, auteur of Partition

Ghatak knew every aspect of filmmaking, including camera operation and the optics, and was an accomplished actor both on stage and screen — his role as Neelkanth Bagchi in his last film Jukti Takko Aar Gappo is considered to be so pure and pristine. (HT Archive)

Updated on Nov 1, 2025 16:28 IST

In Gujarat, Gandhi lives on in stories, in craftsmen

The political centre of Gujarat, Ahmedabad still retains visible Gandhian footprints in its various ashrams and institutions. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Oct 1, 2025 15:30 IST

Filmistan Studio: Bollywood giants walked the floors of Mumbai’s iconic glory

Mumbai, India - March 21, 2025: A view of Filmistan, a historic Indian film studio located in Goregaon, Mumbai, India, on Friday, March 21, 2025. (Photo by Satish Bate/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Jul 6, 2025 03:18 IST

Reel life in the dark room of Emergency

Playback singer Kishore Kumar was another artiste who fell out with the authorities during the Emergency. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jun 20, 2025 15:06 IST

A poet with camera, and his cinema of humanism

A poet with camera, and his cinema of humanism

Updated on May 2, 2025 16:01 IST

Films as representations of history & social reform

**EDS: TO GO WITH STORY** New Delhi: A poster of Netflix film 'Maharaj', starring Aamir Khan's son Junaid Khan. (PTI Photo)(PTI06_13_2024_000154B) (PTI)

Updated on Aug 16, 2024 15:56 IST

In Guru Dutt’s life and art, frames of disenchantment

Guru Dutt - HT Photo by SL Purohit.

Updated on Jul 6, 2024 16:00 IST

The interconnected world of Vinoba, Ray and Saul Bellow

30 November 1951 - Acharya Vinoba Bhave accompanied by his party arrives at Gandhi Ashram, Meerut from Kharkhoda at his prayer meeting Vinoba Bhave studying Bhoomidan Papers - HT Photo.

Updated on Jun 22, 2024 15:33 IST

The Mahatma before Attenborough filmed ‘Gandhi’

In 1931, Charlie Chaplin met Gandhi in London (London Express / Getty Images)

Updated on May 31, 2024 17:54 IST

Circuitous churning of Benegal’s film Manthan

Made at a budget of <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>10 lakh, Manthan was the first crowd funded Indian film. (HT Archive)

Updated on May 23, 2024 16:35 IST

Kumar Shahani, a lingering luminosity

Kumar Shahani in Kolkata just a couple of months prior to his sad demise, photographed by Basab Mullik

Updated on Mar 5, 2024 10:09 IST

The untutored but versatile all-round scholar who guided many

The untutored but versatile all-round scholar who guided many

Updated on Apr 6, 2023 19:13 IST

Why Chhello Show is both transcendent and rooted

Pan Nalin’s Chhello Show.

Updated on Sep 25, 2022 15:07 IST

A weekend with Ingmar Bergman

The Swedish film director with one of his favourite leading ladies and later partner, Liv Ullman.

Updated on Mar 23, 2018 10:13 IST

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