IN the run-up to his first major experiment in theatre, it was a tough few months. Habib Tanvir was “awfully busy and a bit lonesome”. In a letter dated October 13, 1958, to his English girlfriend, Jill MacDonald, he wrote: “I hope my present experiment in theatre succeeds.”
'Ladies and gentlemen, let us discover more of that which is impossible and then do it. Let us find new summits to conquer. Let us bring down the barriers that have blinded our view of the horizons.'
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Cinema can be a powerful medium for social transformation and no one gauged it better than the legendary V. Shantaram who used his memorable films to attack the malaise of untouchability and caste, forced marriages of young women to (rich) old .