Amol Palekar Recalls Slapping Smita Patil Without Consent For Bhumika: I Started Crying...
At the Jaipur Literature Festival 2025, veteran actor Amol Palekar opened up about slapping his Bhumika co-star Smita Patil without her permission, at the behest of Shyam Benegal. He revealed that the ...
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Veteran actor Amol Palekar hails Manorathangal as a fitting tribute to MT
The veteran actor also praised Manorathangal, the television series based on MT Vasudevan Nair’s nine short stories, calling ...
Amol Palekar recalls being ‘ordered’ to slap Smita Patil without her consent during Bhumika: ‘She hugged me, cried'
Amol Palekar talked about slapping Smita Patil without her consent, after Shyam Benegal thought ‘he wasn’t violent enough' while filming Bhumika.
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Book Review | Bitter note permeates Everyman’s memoir
Before he became a theatre actor, almost by chance, as it were, Palekar had been keen on a career in the visual arts ...
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Shuma Raha | Bitter note permeates Everyman’s memoir
Before he became a theatre actor, almost by chance, as it were, Palekar had been keen on a career in the visual arts ...
Amol Palekar recalls slapping Smita Patil without her consent during 'Bhumika': 'I was confused, scared, and...'
Amol Palekar shared his regret at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2025 about slapping Smita Patil during the filming of ...
‘You have to demand your freedom’: Amol Palekar at Jaipur Literature Festival
When art entrepreneur Sanjoy K. Roy introduced Amol Palekar to the stage of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) on Day 4, he ...
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Box office result shouldn’t be the only yardstick to judge a film’s quality: Amol Palekar
Amol Palekar, actor-director of Hindi and Marathi cinema, said he cannot relate to the current trend of films being judged based on their box office numbers. Speaking at The Hindu Lit for Life ...
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Amol Palekar’s ‘Viewfinder’: Struggles, triumphs of an artiste
The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...
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The Amol Palekar we don’t know
The Amol Palekar that most of us know from his films, is a mild-mannered, shy, bumbling man who doesn’t have the confidence to pursue the girl he likes. Someone who evokes enough empathy for ...