Director Kumar Shahani graduated from the University of Bombay (1962) and from the FTII (1966) and completed further film studies in France (1967-68), where he assisted Bresson on Une femme douce (1969). After the intense and innovative Mirror of Illusion (1972), he obtained no support from the NFDC for 12 years. His early work is contextualised by the political events of the 60s and 70s and the definitive shifts in the Nehruite nationalist model caused by the Indira Gandhi regime. His filmography includes films like Tarang (1984), Khayal Gatha (1989), Kasb’a (1991), Bhavantarana (1991), Char Adhyay (1997) and Birah Bhariyo Ghar Aangan Kone (2000).
Seminci - Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid
