
1990
Heavy is the head that wears the rationalist crown. Late Bengali filmmaker Tapan Sinha whose name is often considered to be situated in the same pantheon alongside Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Miran Sen and venerated for keeping parallel cinema alive brought Ek Doctor Ki Maut at the exact same time when Aamir’s Dil, Sunny’s Ghayal and Anil’s Kishen Kanhaiya were pulling waves of crowd into theatres and printing money. Sinha had always been known for carefully dovetailing extreme forms…