"Interaction with Shri Naseeruddin Shah"

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• published: 11 Mar 2016
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"Interaction with Shri Naseeruddin Shah" February 24, 2016. A brief note on the artiste. An alumni of the National School of Drama, Shri Naseeruddin Shah began his acting career in theatre and then made the transition to cinema. It is relevant here to mention that he is also an alumni of the Film and Television Institute at Pune, popularly referred to as the FTII, Pune. Mr. Shah is an outstanding example of being one of the few actors in the world of performing arts to have made the successful transition from theatre to cinema. He has been an intrinsic part of the growth and development of what has been popularly referred to as ‘parallel’, ‘middle’, ‘art’ (used more to condemn rather than appreciate!) cinema movement – obscure terms coined by befuddled film reviewers that tend to mislead rather than enlighten – that emerged in India from the late 1950s, which had a long and distinguished run up until the late 1980s. Mr.Naseeruddin Shah’s evolution as an actor of both the stage and cinema, which he entered around the mid-1970s, continues to set the standard in terms of the calibre, even as it continues to raise the bar of the art form he has chosen, well into modern era of the post liberalised India.