Exploring the Political Irony of “Parakh”: A tale of frail ambition.
Remembering Bimal Roy the master of Indian humanist cinema on his 60th death anniversary on 8 January. It’s fitting to explore the political irony of Parakh, a film released in 1960 that quietly extends his legacy beyond the shadows of poverty and protest. Although Roy ’s influences from Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin and Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves are…

