Sharmistha Gooptu
Writer and historian
Sharmistha Gooptu is a writer and historian of cinema. Her recently published novel Menoka Has Hanged Herself is set against the film industry of the 1930s.
By Sharmistha Gooptu
If you were any better off than anybody else at this time, it was only a quirk of fate, and nothing around seemed very safe or the same anymore.
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The actor was never apologetic of anything, whether his body weight in the age of sculpted heroes, or his screen persona.
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