Kalpana Lajmi(1954-2018)

Kalpana Lajmi was an important figure in Indian feminist filmmaking who unfortunately had to cut short her career as a director after twenty years (1986-2006)to take care of her husband, the Assamese poet, singer and composer Bhupen Hazarika with whom she had partnered in production ..Daughter of painter Lalita Lajmi from whom she may have gotten some of her visual sense, the filmmaker met Bhupen, almost 30 years older, as a teenage psychology student in Bombay's St.Xavier's College, in 1971..After assisting several other directors and working on documentaries,she began to write some of her own scripts, which centered on independent heroines who were able to make their own life choices.