Interpretation of facts through her experience
Lajmi was a brilliant director who had given film fraternity a repertoire of films which are going to live forever. She was a radical film maker, although her tenure was short, because of her own choice and her untimely death due to liver failure; she breathed her last on 23rd September 2018, she was 64 years old. Nevertheless, her work has left an important mark on the Indian cinema.
Background and foray into films
Kalpana Lajmi, 1954-2018, the daughter of painter Lalita Lajmi had films in her genes, as she hailed from the Guru Dutt- Shyam Benegal family. She started her film career by working as an assistant costume designer in Shyam Benegal’s film Bhumika: the role. In the 1970s and 1980s, when films was largely a male preserve, she directed television documentaries DG Movie Pioneer (1978), A work study in Tea Plucking (1979), Along the Brahmaputra (1981) and a popular serial on....
