Smita Patil Films

"My mother is going to be celebrated," said Prateik Babbar

"Carbon copy," Shibani Dandekar commented on the post

"I was lucky to work in very first film The Naxalites with most talented and beautiful actress late Ms Smita Patil," wrote Sunil Lahri

This picture certainly made our Wednesday better

Soni Razdan struck gold in her photo archive

Smita Patil, known for her contribution to the Eighties' parallel cinema movement and her brilliant-yet-brief career in films, died a month after she gave birth to a son, 31 years ago

Prateik Babbar said: "I have always wanted to celebrate her birthday on a film set as that was a place that breathed life to her passion and who she really was"

Prateik Babbar posted a picture of Smita Patil from her visit to the Cannes Film festival in 1976

Shabana Azmi wrote how films were more important than clothes at the festival

Katrina Kaif was announced as the surprise pick for this year's Smita Patil Memorial Award. "I believe it is a matter of great pride that we have an award that acknowledges and recognises the contribution of women to cinema" she said

"I feel 1990s had a slight lack of (strong) female characters. I see resurgence of it now. Acceptance from audience makes it easier to make change at grassroots level. Definitely the change is happening," said Freida Pinto

Namak Halaal completed 34 years on Saturday and Mr Bachchan, on his official blog, wrote that Ms Patil was uncomfortable throughout the film's shoot as she wasn't sure about what she was doing in the movie

"There is a new dawn and a new energy. There is a new beginning, I must say. I see a lot more actors, including a few regional and parallel cinema actresses and also my daughter Alia Bhatt walking the way this great actor Smita did way back in time," said Mahesh Bhatt

"Mrinal da being a good East Bengali had to have fish all the time. That must have turned her stomach. She used to borrow vegetables and cooking oil from the cook and made her own food on a stove," recalled actor Dhritiman Chatterjee in Smita Patil: A Brief Incandescence, a biography written on the actress

"I was in Bangalore shooting for Coolie once. Late into the night at around 2 am I received a call in my hotel room. The receptionist informed me that it was Smita Patil on the line. I was shocked as I had never spoken or talked to her at such a time. Thinking that it would be an important one, I answered," Mr Bachchan said

"My mother is going to be celebrated," said Prateik Babbar

"Carbon copy," Shibani Dandekar commented on the post

"I was lucky to work in very first film The Naxalites with most talented and beautiful actress late Ms Smita Patil," wrote Sunil Lahri

This picture certainly made our Wednesday better

Soni Razdan struck gold in her photo archive

Smita Patil, known for her contribution to the Eighties' parallel cinema movement and her brilliant-yet-brief career in films, died a month after she gave birth to a son, 31 years ago

Prateik Babbar said: "I have always wanted to celebrate her birthday on a film set as that was a place that breathed life to her passion and who she really was"

Prateik Babbar posted a picture of Smita Patil from her visit to the Cannes Film festival in 1976

Shabana Azmi wrote how films were more important than clothes at the festival

Katrina Kaif was announced as the surprise pick for this year's Smita Patil Memorial Award. "I believe it is a matter of great pride that we have an award that acknowledges and recognises the contribution of women to cinema" she said

"I feel 1990s had a slight lack of (strong) female characters. I see resurgence of it now. Acceptance from audience makes it easier to make change at grassroots level. Definitely the change is happening," said Freida Pinto

Namak Halaal completed 34 years on Saturday and Mr Bachchan, on his official blog, wrote that Ms Patil was uncomfortable throughout the film's shoot as she wasn't sure about what she was doing in the movie

"There is a new dawn and a new energy. There is a new beginning, I must say. I see a lot more actors, including a few regional and parallel cinema actresses and also my daughter Alia Bhatt walking the way this great actor Smita did way back in time," said Mahesh Bhatt

"Mrinal da being a good East Bengali had to have fish all the time. That must have turned her stomach. She used to borrow vegetables and cooking oil from the cook and made her own food on a stove," recalled actor Dhritiman Chatterjee in Smita Patil: A Brief Incandescence, a biography written on the actress

"I was in Bangalore shooting for Coolie once. Late into the night at around 2 am I received a call in my hotel room. The receptionist informed me that it was Smita Patil on the line. I was shocked as I had never spoken or talked to her at such a time. Thinking that it would be an important one, I answered," Mr Bachchan said