EXCLUSIVE: "Smita was a victim, not a villain," says Manya Patil-Seth

There was something about Smita Patil’s eyes. When she relayed the Marathi news on Doordarshan, they set the black and white screen ablaze. The same earthy exotica made her the mascot of parallel cinema helmed by Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Jabbar Patel, Ketan Mehta, Mrinal Sen… between the ’70s – ’80s.

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