Middle-of-the-road means? Modern
Updated On: 10 June, 2020 12:00 AM IST | | Mayank Shekhar | Mayank Shekhar
When the metropolitan middle-class was a Basu Da film, and we all liked to think we were Amol Palekars and Vidya Sinhas in it!

Jeena Yahan, a 1979 film by Basu Chatterji. Pic/Twitter@FilmHistoryPic
Given the lack of it, I suspect criticism of an individual-s works is frowned upon by readers of obituaries; and perhaps rightly so. Therefore, deliberately desisted from mentioning my long-held disappointment with filmmaker Basu Chatterjee upon his death. What was that about?
The film Ek Ruka Hua Faisla 1986, that I watched much after its release. Because all through North India one observed how it had developed that cult status among uncles/aunties/netizens to name-drop and prove their love for film, as it were, as against movie/picture.


