Word: chidananda
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...mere government functionary? Or a willful sinner whose well-paid job trades in the blood of the blameless? The film is vintage Adoor, a picture-perfect set piece that entertains eternal questions of human responsibility and freedom. (Shadow Kill "has the stamp of a master," according to film critic Chidananda Dasgupta.) The film is more beautifully shot than the rest of Adoor's oeuvre combined...
...Most Indian movies are commercial staples churned out by Bollywood. But Sen's more rarefied sensibilities were formed in Calcutta where she grew up in an environment that hailed intellectual moviemaking. Her father, the director Chidananda Dasgupta, was best friends with legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray, and Sen was soon drawn into their world. At 11, she played the part of a little boy in a play written by Ray's father, and she decided then to become an actress: "I'd never enjoyed anything as much." She has since acted in more than 60 films, including Ray's Teen Kanya...
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