A DIFFERENT VIEW(ER)

Film historians and film professionals may have differing views on films. Kamal Haasan’s list is a very personal one. And so HT asked film scholar and historian Rachel Dwyer for her own list of 70 films. In her words: “It is always fun to compile lists but on the understanding that they can be altered. This is my list today. Perhaps tomorrow I might change it as there are films I can’t bear to have left out but there was no space. How does one choose from among Satyajit Ray’s films? I barely know films from the NorthEast...I haven’t chosen a single Bhojpuri or Odiya film. I’ve seen more Tamil, Malayalam films than Telugu and Kannada films. I like songs, romance and fun but I also like the emotionally nuanced films. I could easily have chosen 70 films from the 1950s alone…”. Here then is Dwyer’s list.