Passion for cinema has produced a few pages of Sudhir Mishra’s diary for readers and expectantly brilliances of Sudhir came out in open in that space.

Sudhir is a name in ‘so-called’ parallel cinema or in good cinema, if I am allowed to use Satyajit Ray’s coinage for it. As I went on reading it I faced a few questions and am trying to present those in my write.

Let me start with a cinema by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, ‘Ali-Fear Eats the Soul’. It starts with an apparently incorrect title in original German. Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem was cast respectively as an old German woman cleaner and a middle-aged Moroccan worker. Woman aged around sixty and the man at his late thirties had got into a relation, in spite of their separate religio- cultural backgrounds. Emmi (Mira), in her earlier life had married a polish immigrant worker against her Hitler worshipper father’s wishes and the children born out of that wedlock now trashes her relation with Ali (Hedi). That is the irony he weaved with mastery.