A Monday Morning Post
“Together they (Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi) delighted audiences and changed the face and quality content of Hindi cinema in the 70s with masterpieces like Paar, Sparsh, Khandhar, Masoom, Ek Pal and Khamosh.”
from this article by Subhash K Jha in Bombay Times today, about Naseeruddin and Shabana pairing up again after several years.
Something about that statement doesn’t seem quite right, though. Because…all those films were made in the 80s:
Paar: 1984
Sparsh: 1980.
Masoom: 1982/83
Khandhar: 1983/84
Ek Pal: 1986
Khamosh: 1985
just goes to prove his point - the films were ahead of their times. or SKJ was?
Comment by Charu — May 7, 2007 @ 3:35 am
Oh well caught Uma.. Trust the TOI to get an entire decade (and generation?) wrong.
Comment by Bombay Addict — May 7, 2007 @ 5:47 am
Just a little bit of research would have helped them…
Comment by mumbaigirl — May 7, 2007 @ 9:44 pm
Come on, Uma. ’70s, ’80s, what’s the difference? The important thing is these films changed something called the “quality content”.
Who let this guy write about films?
Comment by km — May 7, 2007 @ 10:11 pm
‘Shabana, who plays an orthodox Tamilian Brahmin in Rice Plate , has been preparing for the past two weeks by spending time with Tamilian women to learn their mannerisms. This isn’t the first time she plays a Tamilian. She played one in Mahesh Dattani’s Morning Raga as well.’
another discrepancy.
Comment by kuffir — May 9, 2007 @ 5:53 am
Kuffir: Must you refer to films like “Morning Raga”? :)
Comment by km — May 9, 2007 @ 11:57 pm
km,
i was referring to subhash jha referring to ‘morning raga’.
btw, the films starring shabana/naseeruddin shah, together or only one of them, made in the seventies were quite different from those made in the eighties, if you are so very particular about categorization, and differences and so on.
Comment by kuffir — May 10, 2007 @ 8:12 pm