Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay ist bekannt für ihre provokativen Werke, die oft starke Reaktionen hervorrufen. Ihr Schreiben zeichnet sich durch eine mutige Auseinandersetzung mit Themen aus, die in der bengalischen Literatur häufig als kontrovers gelten. Durch ihre Romane und Kurzgeschichten bietet sie eine einzigartige Perspektive auf die Gesellschaft und die menschliche Psyche. Ihr Stil ist scharfzüngig und fordert die Leser heraus, gewöhnliche Normen zu hinterfragen.
In this collection of conversations with documentary filmmaker Nasreen Munni Kabir, Waheeda Rehman recounts her personal life and her professional life in Indian cinema, working with notable filmmakers including Guru Dutt, Raj Khosla, Satyajit Ray, Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand and Vijay Anand.
A powerful novel about a woman who runs away from home, seeking to free herself from the shackles of society and familial attachments, and instead devote her attentions to writing a novel. When she realises that her five year old son Roo has followed her, Ishwari struggles with her identity as a mother and the responsibilities that brings, versus the guilty knowledge that she cannot want her own child when his existence requires her to suppress her own dreams. Ishwari and Roo wander the streets at night, looking for a place to stay, until an elderly caretaker takes pity on them and offers them an empty room on the terrace of a guest house. Ishwari gets work as a caregiver to the handsome gentleman who lives next door, while Roo, who is lame, spends all day locked up in the room on the roof. Pulsating with raw energy, Abandon gives voice to the perpetual conflict between life and art.