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Bhavum: My Favorite Character Actress Gets to be a Star

My favorite character actress finally gets to be a star! #Bhavum #MitaVasisht

I don’t quite know what to think about this movie.  They left a lot of things open and a lot of things to our imagination, and there are no easy answers in it.  But what I know for sure is, I love Mita Vasisht and am thrilled I finally got to see her in a lead role, instead of just showing up and giving awesome advice for a few minutes, and then going away. (more…)

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Mita Vashisht as Rani Roopmati in Khayal Gatha, The Saga of Khayal (1989)

The seeker is engaged in an apprenticeship in learning to learn and also in understanding what that entails. In a sequence in the Rūpmati Pavilion at Mandu, overlooking the Rewa River, a tributary of the Narmada, the seeker, who is searching for the legendary poet-singer and famous lover of Baz Bahadur (Mangal Dhillon), Rūpmati (Mita Vashisht), asks the woman seated in the pavilion playing a tamboura to give him a sign. He fails to realize that this woman is the Rūpmati he seeks. And she tauntingly responds: "From whom?" Neither showing nor telling, it seems, is an adequate way of knowing. One needs a conception of the sign adequate to articulating complex systems, systems that are not exclusively expressed by human beings.

Laleen Jayamanne – “Lapidary Dynamisms” from The Epic Cinema of Kumar Shahani (2014)

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Drishti (1990)

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To enter a film like Siddeshwari you needed to be in a state of deep, deep meditation with your own craft.

--Mita Vashisht 

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Siddeshwari (1990)

“Cinema for me is a plastic, not a performing art. It should be direct sculpting in time.”

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Siddeshwari (1989)

"And I know that when the shot finds its place, it has a quality of holding you. The position is its meaning."  --Mani Kaul