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 ...