The noted
filmmaker bonds with death
A Bollywood director flopped in his last creation in 1999. After seven
years, he has yet again flopped but this time in his struggle for life.
Lately, for more than three months Hrishikesh Mukherjee was extremely critical. The legend, of depicting
human emotions, succumbed to death on 27th August
At Leelawati Hospital in Mumbai. He died of kidney failure.
Late Hrishikesh Mukherjee was born in 1922. He professionally achieved a lot in his life span of 83 years. His
career started as an assistant to the eminent filmmaker Bimal Roy. His career shaped and flourished in Mumbai but first hand experience was under the editor Subodh Roy at New Theatres in Kolkata.
He started his independent career with ‘Musafir’ in 1957. The great Mukherjee tasted a huge success in 1959 with ‘Anari’ casting Raj Kapoor and Nutan. The then, his acclaimed journey continued for round about forty years. Within this period he made more than forty movies. He directed some of the greats of their time as: Dharmendra, Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Sharmila Tagore, Jaya Bhaduri and many more.
To name some among his hits are: Satyakaam, Anupama, Bawarchi, Anand, Chupke Chupke, Mili, Abhiman, Alaap, Golmaal and so forth. He even directed a murder mystery named, Buddha Mil Gaya.
Those who knew the man Mukherjee are always of the opinion that his
films signify the values he believed in. He never played with human emotions but rather revolved around it. His films conveyed a common message to the mass: to become a good human being. He created magic with his soft and subtle technique.
Though commercially, ’Jhoot Bole Kauwa Kaate’, his last wasn’t a hit but it too contained the same emotional flavour. Only by then, the movie culture of Bollywood had undergone a tremendous change and old age struck the efficiency of the master filmmaker.
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