Essential Mystery: Major Filmmakers of Indian Art Cinema

A comprehensive overview of Indian art cinema, this substantially revised and updated edition takes a critical look at the major filmmakers of the genre. The film directors who form the corpus of this new edition now include amon others Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Benegal, Govindan Aravindan, Aparna Sen, etc... A final chapter examines film makers not as prolific as those mentioned earlier.