Smita Patil: A Brief IncandescenceIn the three decades since Smita Patil died at the impossibly young age of thirty one she has unwaveringly been one of Indian cinema's biggest icons. That is unusual enough for a 'parallel cinema' actor, rendered more remarkable in a career that spanned a mere ten years. Patil, one of the leading lights of the New Indian Cinema of the mid 1970s, has a body of work that would make veterans proud. Smita Patil: A Brief Incandescence tells her remarkable

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