“You have to be a filmmaker, and then you have to be a lawyer as well.”

New York Times article, 24 December 2002 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/24/movies/arts-abroad-a-brahmin-filmmaker-s-battle-to-tell-india-s-story-in-india.html

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Indian film director 1950

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