Balraj Sahni had almost completed dubbing for Salim Mirza’s character and wanted to finish it off. Thus ended the life of a polymath-artiste, whose relative brevity in life the providence compensated through a multitude of achievements. Multiple contradictionsThe life of Sahni was full of multiple contradictions. Joshi wrote that “to understand [Sahni’s] life, work and early end is to discover the key links that constitute the strength and weakness of our national life”. The Non-Conformist: Memories of My Father Balraj Sahni; Parikshat Sahni, Ebury Press/Penguin, ₹599.

Source: The Hindu October 19, 2019 11:26 UTC