I first met Lili in East London tending to vegetables on her allotment plot. Surprised by my ability to communicate with her in Bangla and my interest in her gardening, she was eager to show me what she was growing and share the fruits (quite literally) of her labour. Lili soon invited ...
mannerisms, and even the film’s title (Aandhi,meaning storm, rhymes with Gandhi) are undeniable, Gulzar explains in an oldFilmfareinterviewthat he never intended to base this film on the life of Indira Gandhi:
At sunrise on the day of the wedding, ten married women from the bride’s family take the bride and ten married women from the groom’s family take the groom to a nearby pond to invite Goddess Ganga to the wedding.They bring back a pitcher of water, which is used for the bath by ...