While the larger-than-life leading men of 1970s Hindi cinema such as Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, and Vinod Khanna flaunted their bravado, the hero of Basu Chatterjee’s Chhoti Si Baat was a man whose ...

Basu da’s characters offered relief during the era of the Angry Young Man. Chatterjee was an artist who portrayed the life of the common man and chose to tell intimate stories. We live in an age when ...

Basu Chatterjee’s Chhoti Si Baat came in the most audacious year in the history of Hindi cinema. 1975 has gone down in the history of Indian cinema as the year of Sholay. It was also the year of Jai ...

Filmmaker Basu Chatterjee died in Mumbai on Thursday, following age-related ailments at the age of 93. Best-known for chronicling middle-class lives and values in light-hearted movies such as Piya Ka ...

Revisiting two 1970s Hindi films recently, I was struck by light-hearted scenes that showed how the underprivileged can deal with the privileged without direct confrontation. Humour, including biting ...

In the 1970s, there were angry young men, led by the smouldering Amitabh Bachchan. And then there was the happy young man, represented by one actor. He was wispy, with a thin moustache, a Beatles ...