Dear Readers,
What an expressive writer Mr. Ziya Us Salam is? I used to eagerly await his Friday reviews while I was a student at Delhi. Actually, I could not afford to watch the wide range of movies which were released every Friday, so I used to blindly rely on his taste and choices. Seldom did he disappoint me. In fact, on most of the occassions, our perceptions concurred.
No other film critic could have written a more befitting obituary to a side-line character artist like A.K. Hangal. He says that Hangal's "roles often demanded a careworn fragility and a gentle but unwavering righteousness, (he) was the very embodiment of senescent charm." Ziya adds further that Hangal's characters always carried an air of "piety" and none could enact "virtuous poverty" better than him.
A masterpiece act that comes to my mind right now is a scene from the movie Alaap (I hope the name of the movie is correct), where Amitabh and Hangal are assaulted by a few goons on a street. They subject the senescent to a ignominious embarrassment. Few artists of our film industry can play the pathos and helplessness of a victim in such circumstances more lively than Mr. Hangal......
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