Sonali Mayay Bharate Roberto Rosellini by Dilip Padgaonkar [Hardcover]

India is newly freed from the long colonial rule. Various plans are underway for the future of the independent country. Everyone dreams of progress through development. It was at this time, in December 1956, that Roberto Rossellini set foot on this country's soil at the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. This Italian film director is world-bound at the time, as well as the husband of the legendary Hollywood actress Ingrid Bergman. Rossellini came to make a series of pictures on the activities of the newly-independent country, which would erase the illusion of the Western world and present India in a truly new form. While portraying the India of Nehru's dream, Rossellini falls in love with India, Indians and a twenty-seven-year-old married woman, Sonali Dasgupta. Although the Indian press and the Mumbai film world smeared him that day, noted journalist Dilip Padgaonkar has researched Rossellini's filmmaking journey, a wonderful combination of passion, hard work and vision. This book is a fascinating chapter in the life of the controversial but energetic creative Rossellini, which marked the newly-independent A special time in India.