Sharmistha Gooptu

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Sharmistha Gooptu is a film historian, and author of Bengali Cinema, An Other Nation (Routledge, 2010). She is Editor of the journal South Asian History and Culture and the South Asian History and Culture Books Series.

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Books by Sharmistha Gooptu

Unspoken

By Sharmistha Gooptu

The summer of 2024. Sixty-four-year-old Mrs G starts to reminisce about her love affair with a man she calls ‘A’. To Aisha, her daughter, ‘A’ appears to be a figment of her mother’s dementia-afflicted mind. ‘Miu, there was no A. You were happily married to Boy,’ an exasperated Aisha tells her mot...

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Menoka has hanged herself

By Sharmistha Gooptu

A telephone call from the studio, night of the new year…1937. Menoka, heroine of Bharat Talkies, has hanged herself by her own sari, in costume for her new film… Silent films are now the talkies. Bioscope pictures are a rage and film stars subjects of gossip and fantasy. The world of films is a...

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