Kolkata:
London-based renowned NRIeconomist Lord Meghnad Desai has made his silver screen debutwith a cameo in the Sharmila Tagore-Soha Ali Khan starrerBritish film Life Goes On.
In a cameo appearance, Desai, a professor emeritus atthe London School of Economics, plays a friend to veteranactors Girish Karnad and Om Puri.
"Desai and Girish had studied at the college together.They even used to do drama together some 40-45 years ago. Sowhen we approached him for the role, he readily agreed," thefilm's UK-based director Sangeeta Datta told PTI.
Released last Friday to mixed response, Life Goes Onis inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear as it tries to find anew ground for the Elizabethan period drama in a contemporarymulticultural British context.
"The scene is about a debate among friends oncommunalism, partition and prejudice against Islam. He wasvery happy to do the balancing act and discuss how the Hinduswere not the only ones who suffered. There were Muslims amongthe victims too," Datta said.
The 71-year-old economist, also a Labour politician,was recently in news after being dragged into a controversylinked to the PhD thesis of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi'sson.
In a cameo appearance, Desai, a professor emeritus atthe London School of Economics, plays a friend to veteranactors Girish Karnad and Om Puri.
"Desai and Girish had studied at the college together.They even used to do drama together some 40-45 years ago. Sowhen we approached him for the role, he readily agreed," thefilm's UK-based director Sangeeta Datta told PTI.
Released last Friday to mixed response, Life Goes Onis inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear as it tries to find anew ground for the Elizabethan period drama in a contemporarymulticultural British context.
"The scene is about a debate among friends oncommunalism, partition and prejudice against Islam. He wasvery happy to do the balancing act and discuss how the Hinduswere not the only ones who suffered. There were Muslims amongthe victims too," Datta said.
The 71-year-old economist, also a Labour politician,was recently in news after being dragged into a controversylinked to the PhD thesis of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi'sson.
