Maya Darpan

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Maya Govind, most popular female lyricist of her time, passes away at her Mumbai residence

The Times of India 08 Apr 2022

MUMBAI. Poet and songwriter Maya Govind, who sparked to prominence with the endearing romance riddle, 'Nainon mein darpan hai' (film ... She was 82 and ailing for some time ... But Maya Govind not only overcame the biases and wrenched out space for herself but also constructed a career that stretched to nearly four decades ... Jhoothi, 1986) ... .

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Italian Odissi-Chhau dancer teaching the dance forms in India since 1995

Hindustan Times 15 Mar 2021

Those in Odissi style include the ballet 'Maya Darpan' premiered at Nehru Center in Bombay in April 1993, 'Dasa Mahavidya' (1999), 'Ganga Yamuna' (2005), 'Exploration' and 'Tantra' (2006) 'Saraha', 'Bolero' and 'Rhydhum' (2007), 'Mahanadi and the river flows' and 'Sparsha' (2008, ...

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Basu Chatterjee: Chronicler of middle-class life

Frontline 05 Jun 2020

The 1970s were all about extremes. We had Ramesh Sippy with the once-in-a-lifetime Sholay. We had Yash Chopra with the action-packed Deewar. Then we had Manmohan Desai’s over-the-top Amar Akbar Anthony ... Each one of them clicked big time at the box office ... Of course, we had Mani Kaul too, with Uski Roti and Duvidha, and Kumar Shahani with Maya Darpan.

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Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Festival in China had a special focus on Indian cinema

Indian Express 20 Oct 2019

The one I’m sad at missing out is Shahani’s Maya Darpan (1972), but the director, who is present at the festival, tells me “not to bother” because the print is “not good enough” ... Shahani, whose best work (Maya Darpan; Tarang, 1984), joyously and uniquely celebrates form and colour ...

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An Indian autumn at Pingyao

The Hindu 18 Sep 2019

... Swayamvaram (One’s Own Choice, 1972), Govindan Aravindan’s Thampu (The Circus Tent, 1978) and Uttarayanam (Throne of Capricorn , 1974), Kumar Shahani’s Maya Darpan (Mirror of Illusion, 1972）and Shyam Benegal’s Ankur (The Seedling, 1973) and Bhumika (The Role, 1976).

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Subtle tones

The Hindu 20 Jun 2018

“All along the history of arts, artistes have been struggling to liberate themselves. If someone says ‘you have to sing with this many words’, I will make sure I sing with much lesser. I will try and escape from as many words as possible ... Listen to his music in Thodasa Roomani Ho Jaaye or Maya Darpan or Kandahar – Chandavarkar paints abstract colours.

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Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro — The gravitas behind the guffaws

The Hindu 13 Oct 2017

“Tum kya samajhta hai, municipality mere baap ka hai?”. “Nahin, Sir, aap ka hai.” ... When I first saw JBDY, I noticed the conspicuous posters of New Wave films Uski Roti, Maya Darpan, Chakra, Chirutha and Gaman prominently pasted on the Kemps Corner flyover, right beneath which an utterly insane scene takes place between a drunkard and a corpse ... .

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Experts: Superficial form and style don't make abstract art

Suryaa 03 Jul 2017

Ayswarya, who presented a paper on the idea of abstraction in art, noted that the very idea of creation involves abstraction.  ... Kumar Sahani, known for his avant-garde films like "Maya Darpan" (1972), "Tarang" (1984), "Khayal Gatha" (1989) and "Kasba" (1990), said there was no dichotomy between narrative and abstraction in cinema. ... .

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The filmmaker who refused to fit in

The Hindu 09 Dec 2015

Today, the Bhau Daji Lad Museum will host a mini-retrospective of three Kumar Shahani’s films, Maya Darpan (1972), Tarang (1984) and Khayal Gatha (1988) ... actress of Maya Darpan who married the film’s cinematographer KK Mahajan after they met on the film’s sets).

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Creating her own idiom

The Hindu 22 Sep 2015

Ileana Citaristi has tears in her eyes, just after her short performance at the Perur temple ... She calls dance a way of life. “In India, dance was not restricted to the dance floor ... From Maya Angelou’s poems to Herman Hesse’s novel, anything abstract inspires her ... “I was criticised for my contemporary production, Maya Darpan.

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The man who made colours speak

The Hindu 13 May 2014

It was in the early 1960s, as a student of political science in the Bombay University, that Kumar Shahani was ‘astonished by the great levels touched by a piece of cinema’ ... Padmakumar memorial lecture ... But if you look at our films, for example ‘Maya Darpan’ and ‘Uski Roti’, the differences are stark ... Mr ... Keywords.

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Idiom of the heart

The Hindu 27 Feb 2014

Bhubaneswar is noted Odissi dancer Ileana Citaristi’s home. She trained in Odissi under Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra. She also trained in Mayurbhanj Chhau for six years under Guru Sri Hari Nayak ... You seemed to have made Odisha your home ... In Odissi my first group choreography was “Maya Darpan” (1994) on the concept of “maya”.

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Kumar Shahani

The Hindu 30 Dec 2013

Kumar Shahani is an award-winning filmmaker. After studying in Mumbai, Pune and finally Paris, Kumar returned to India to make his first film, Maya Darpan, in 1972 ... Visit the new website. www.thehindulfl.com.

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Another voice in another language

The Hindu 15 Jul 2013

Translation is both an art and a craft ... The space of translation is always flexible ... She draws from a large number of examples to prove her point — Chemmeen, Samskara, Maya Darpan, Rudali, Silence! the Court is in Session, and the God of Small Things ... The third chapter takes up Nirmal Verma’s Maya Darpan translated by Geeta Kapur ... U.R ... T.

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Retrospective of Indian cinema and video

The Times of India 28 Jun 2013

Kumar has been making documentaries for 16 years ... Some key works by filmmakers like Mani Kaul, Kumar Shahni, G Arvindan, John Abraham are missing because the curatorial emphasis have been on showing rarer, unseen films rather than known masterpieces like Uski Roti or Maya Darpan and many others ... .