India at 75 | Timeline: Cinema
The HinduPublished : Aug 15, 2022 18:00 IST Indian cinema, which already had a chequered history prior to Independence, came into its own in the early years of free India and then periodically fell in and out of a formulaic rut. 1960:Meghe Dhaka Tara, Ritwik Ghatak’s sombre tale of struggle and sacrifice strikes a new path with its innovative technique and by placing refugees and their travails at the heart of the movie. 1965:Chemmeen, based on a novel by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, brings a new aesthetic to Malayalam cinema with its lyrical storytelling, world-class camerawork, and Salil Chowdhury’s mesmerising soundtrack. 1980s 1980: On the threshold of a new decade, Feroz Khan’s Qurbani brings a certain panache to the screen that filmgoers love to bits, with the musical component being the epitome of cool. 2012:Gangs of Wasseypur, Anurag Kashyap’s two-part crime opus headlined by the stars of the new millennium such as Manoj Bajpai and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, births a new trend of elaborate storytelling.