In 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 the 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 story, ...
