Life’s Like That Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Watching a Hrishikesh Mukherjee film is like training to see that the glass is always half full. The world is not a grim place. It’s a place full of colourful and simple characters with touching stories to tell. This was the world of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Films like Guddi, Gol Maal and Bawarchi were his version of slice of life, sprinkled with just the right spice and sugar. Ask the million filmmakers waiting to get a break and they’ll tell you they’d happily retire if they can make one Anand. Hrishikesh made about 44 more. He gave commercial actors like Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna and Sanjeev Kumar a taste of the critique caviar in films like Satyakam, Abhimaan, Bawarchi and Arjun Pandit respectively. He was the man who could make art look like fun.
Watching a Hrishikesh Mukherjee film is like training to see that the glass is always half full. The world is not a grim place. It’s a place full of colourful and simple characters with touching stories to tell. This was the world of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Films like Guddi, Gol Maal and Bawarchi were his version of slice of life, sprinkled with just the right spice and sugar. Ask the million filmmakers waiting to get a break and they’ll tell you they’d happily retire if they can make one Anand. Hrishikesh made about 44 more. He gave commercial actors like Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna and Sanjeev Kumar a taste of the critique caviar in films like Satyakam, Abhimaan, Bawarchi and Arjun Pandit respectively. He was the man who could make art look like fun.
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