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Mita Vashisht Instagram - Different roles yet the same power!

Here's to women who are brave, resilient, and unapologetically themselves. Happy Women's Day!

#internationalwomensday

Mita Vashisht Instagram - Throwback to the early Bombay days....a very young us-- I and Anant Mahadevan in the lovely director Mazahir Rahim's limited episode tv serial Peele Patte (पीले पत्ते) for Doordarshan....shooting and stories had such elegance....we would go home so creatively joyous at the end of each day ..
Thank for the pic Mazahir....and for the wonderful Peele Patte. I think we can find it on you tube or dd archives

#Doordarahan #ddindia tvserialsindia #anantmahadevan #actorslife #mazahirrahim

Mita Vashisht Instagram - PORTFOLIO WALE DIN
Photo, courtesy Rakesh Khatri.

My friend Rakesh Khatri was an amateur photographer. I had just graduated from the National School Of Drama.
While moving to Bombay, and to films was not on my immediate agenda...I did neet a 'portfolio' as it was referred to those days.

'Photos ka portfolio hai?' the director will ask you, I was told. (Those days there were no casting agencies or casting directors, you met the director who would be directing the film or the tv serial).

"Khatri, portfolio chahiye yaar" I wailed dramatically over the land line phone.
"No problem, kal" (tomorrow) and Khatri disconnected the call.

Khatri was a guy of few, VERY few words. I think it was that paan- masala he so loved chewing which restricted his speech to a few sounds or at best to a huge grin---it was a vocabulary that I had to learn to decipher, and managed to, in the course of the many photo shoots we did...

Prep for the shoot was something like this:
Rummage through my younger brother's cupboard for a denim shirt,
One Lakme lip gloss which was past the expiry date (I didn't check, actually, but I know I had bought I four years prior and used it sparingly, so in hindsight it must have expired).
Ready????
ready!!!
Thereafter to stand on the terrace of my house where ever Khatri gestured ( where the light was falling the best)....
Khatri loaded the film in his camera and did about ten or eleven clicks per 'costume change' till we finished the roll of 36 frames.

A few days later we would pore over the contact sheet and choose which ones to make large- sized copies of.

These photos that Khatri had clicked circulated for the next two years, as my 'portfolio' and sometime later, one of them found its way to an half page article in the Times of India, by the hugely celebrated (and almost iconic) film journalist Khalid Mohammed.
Khalid's article featured Shabana Azmi and Me and Dimple Kapadia. My photo clicked by Rakesh Khatri sat in the centre flanked by the photos of the two veteran stars...
Thanks Khatriiii...!!!!
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Mita Vashisht Instagram - From 'Jazeere' in 1988 till today..!

Rajit once told me, that his first film/acting in the camera was with me---in Govind Nihalani's 'Jazeere' (an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play 'Little Eyolf').
Rajit and I and Irrfan and Ratna Pathak Shah were the principal cast. (1989)

(I caught the film a few years ago on DD archives and was quite astounded at the level of maturity we had as actors even in our twenties---each of our roles was a highly complex one to play).

Rajit has never lost the warmth of that time, and this picture, taken at the Goldfish premiere, captures beautifully the bond that has remained unconditionally affectionate and trustworthy!

In this picture he is dragging me off to ensure we have a picture together, (to mark the event), in front of the Goldfish poster.
(Qudos to the press photographer who captured this in camera...)

And yes...he is fabulous as always in Goldfish!

#thesplendidfilms #rajitkapur #actorslife #worldcinema

Mita Vashisht Instagram - #REPOST @ind.igenous with @get__repost__app Stumbled across this on YouTube today.
Mita Vasisht in her debut film, Vaar Vaar Vaari (1987)
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Kumar Shahani was invited to direct the diploma film of Nandini Bedi, then an editing student at FTII. Vaar Vaar Vaari is a brilliant Shahani-esque exploration of the machine-nature dichotomy and the female desire, through the lens of the mythical. There's the lover in its various forms, a caged black swan, the sea, the sakhi, music. And it is exquisitely shot.
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@mitavasisht
#kumarshahani #ftii #diplomafilm #indiancinema #avantgarde #indianparallelcinema #ftiipune #filmschool #repostandroid #repostw10

Mita Vashisht Instagram - An absolutely honoured & blissful moment with the most humble, extremely talented & versatile actress @mitavasisht ma’am at @nsd_official_

Thank you so much maam for your valuable time & that warm hug ❤️🤗

#blessed 😇🙏

Always grateful to @glamourgurgaon @mrsdelhincrofficial @bnangia ma’am @barkhanangiaofficial ma’am ❤️

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Mita Vashisht Instagram - The opening of grand Biennale for Arts Architecture and Design in Delhi, two days ago. At the historic Red Fort...a huge part of which now houses seven art spaces. Thanks to the Central Govt initiative!!! More power to such initiatives!!!
We had to be seated three hours in advance of the Prime Minister's arrival!
Very exciting to witness the initiative, and curious about the possibilities this may offer, in lieu of all that I want to bring to the table as Chairperson of Haryana Film and Entertainment Policy ...

Mita Vashisht Instagram - Friends, film maker Elroy Pinto and film editor Swabha Pal , found this in a documentary film on Kumar Shahani and Mani Kaul, they are watching and sent this to me...
Thank you...!!
So blessed to have been the lead actress for the cinemas of Kumar Shahani and Mani Kaul
(Five films!!.
'Var Var Vari', 'Khayal Gatha' and 'Kasba' for Kumar Shahani
'Siddheshwari' and 'Ahmaq' for Mani Kaul)

KASBA is currently playing on #MUBI
VAR VAR VARI on #YouTube
SIDDHESHWARI' on #You Tube

#kumarshahani #mani kaul #indiancinema #worldcinema
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Mita Vashisht Instagram - 'You need to get more mainstream Mita...'
Photo shoot for FILMFARE magazine
Photographer: Vinesh Gandhy

Here I was, living now in Bombay ...

I had to move to Bombay because I was shooting every single day of the first three years after graduating from NSD...and all the shoots were in Bombay...

Five films and several tv serials down the line ....'You need to become a commercial film star so we can keep making films with you...' one of my iconic art film directors jokingly said to me one day...
He was in part serious, I realised.

My heart sank...'Why do I? You have already cast me in three of your films when I was absolutely unknown' I wanted to argue, but bit back the retort.
(I knew already how tough it was for my directors to make the cinema they did...)

Anyway FilmFare magazine wanted a photo shoot for an interview so here I was....as usual, just me and my makeup-kit.

Vinesh Ghandy or Vinya, to his friends, was commissioned to shoot this portfolio.
This was my third photo shoot with Vinya, and as always, the preferred location was his simple, yet eclectic studio in Mahim where the sea waves would come crashing below his window.
The sound of the waves was the background music score as we clicked photos, sipped coffee and sometimes just gazed out at the sea.

Vinya is one of the gentlest people ever...we were probably the same age...however he had a maturity and serenity I didn't...
I was then, as restless as the sea.
Spending time at Vinya's studio an hour after each photo shoot was somehow enormously calming and I would leave Vinya's studio with some of his serenity......or perhaps it was the sea making those mad waves outside the windows--
The sea was after all a presence more elemental and restless than I was....and who am I in front of it...

Mita Vashisht Instagram - Reveling in Meaningful Moments with @mitavasisht Ji
What a delight to connect with like minded souls.

Meeta Ji, your personality is truly extraordinary ❤️

Mita Vashisht Instagram - In the Divine Presence of the Divine Flautist
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia ji!!!

So happy to have found his 'NOW' and 'HERE' recently on you tube. My student years at NSD were made all the more magical, listening endlessly to these two albums...

We are at the airport, heading for the Bangalore Poetry Festival..
Pandit Hari Ji's session with his biographer Satya Saran inaugurates the festival. ( My session follows just after.....feeling blessed that he'll be there ....and a wee bit nervous too..)

Thanks Satya Saran for this lovely pic.
#flutemaestro
#bangalorepoetryfestival #actorslife #satyasaran

Mita Vashisht Instagram - 'Var Var Vari'
1987. (Black and white film, shot on film) Ftii Pune.
A film by KUMAR SHAHANI....( Can view it on YouTube)
My first film immediately after graduating from the NSD.....the greatest gift a young actress could receive from the Universe was this....!
Kumar Shahani .. ..

Mita Vashisht Instagram - Kathmandu was great but nothing beats “आमची मुंबई”

Mita Vashisht Instagram - Just post my presentation on Lal Ded...what an amazing day this has been... fabulous audience
#bangalorepoetryfestival #mitavasishtactress #lalded

Mita Vashisht Instagram - What's a Modigliani? I asked...

In those early films, and in those early days, I, as a twenty six year old actress of the the several feature films of Kumar Shahani, Mani Kaul and Govind Nihalani just took it for granted that life was about being surrounded by greatness and great people all the time.

Govind Nihalani and the team was in Pune for a screening and seminar of his latest film in which I featured and he said, I am meeting Vijay Tendulkar Saab for lunch, would you like to come along???
VIJAY TENDULKAR!!!?? Ofcourse I 'came along' and sat quietly through the lunch at 'Krishna Dining' eating from my thaali and listening to these two brilliant artists in discourse...

One winter in Delhi, Kumar Shahani said, I am going to meet Nirmal Verma at his house near the Deer Park, would you like to come along? NIRMAL VERMA!!!? Ofcourse I 'came along'....and again, sat quietly listening to these two greats as the winter evening slipped into a winter night with the same quiet, intense and gentle energy that emanated from them...

Mani Kaul was happy with how 'Siddheshwari' had shaped up.
He wasn't one for complimenting his actors however (much less his actresses).
We had captured the nude scene for the thumri 'Thadi Rahun' without much fuss.
Later that evening, over dinner he turned to me and remarked 'You are like a Modigliani...long limbed..!'
'Don't you think, she is?'… He turned to his Cinematographer and Assistant director with that question...
What's a Modigliani Mani?' l asked...

I had grown up with a passion for Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Toulose Lautrec....
That day thanks to Mani I was introduced to the wonderful painter, MODIGLIANI ...

#actorslife #indiancinema #modigliani

Mita Vashisht Instagram - Thoda baith gayee, ek rang-be rangee dukaan mein....Thamel, Kathmandu mein

Mita Vashisht Instagram - 14 FEB 2024, Delhi: 🎭 ACTORS ON ACTING - Talk 3 for National School Of Drama Students' Union @nsd_su's ADVITIYA '24 with Ms. Mita Vasisht & Syed Mohd. Irfan Sb.

Honoured to have hosted the illustrious Ms. Mita Vasisht as part of our 'Actors on Acting' series at NSD, Delhi!
In an insightful session moderated by Syed Mohd. Irfan saheb, Founder Producer and host of 'Guftagoo' on Rajya Sabha TV, Ms. Vashisht shared her journey and expertise in the realm of Indian cinema and television. What started out as a discussion, turned into a Masterclass in no time, with Mita ji exemplifying Natyashastra acting techniques with Irfan ji as her co-actor!

With an impressive repertoire spanning numerous films and television shows, including her memorable roles in "Chandni," "Taal," and "Ghaav: The Wound," Ms. Vasisht's contributions to the industry are truly commendable. Beyond her on-screen work, she has been a visiting faculty at esteemed institutions like NSD, NIFT, NID, WWI, and as Head of Department – Acting at FTII.
Organised by the NSD Students’ Union, such sessions are invaluable for aspiring actors and seasoned thespians alike.

#NSDBRM2024 #VandeBharangam

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Mita Vashisht Instagram - Has it been 39 years when we last met...?
I don't think so.... clearly not letting go of each other now....
Had been searching all over for the last ten years to find you! ❤️

When 16 years of age
..high school days...
Guitar playing days
Abba Carpenter song-ing and figuring out the guitar cords we could match our voices to...

Early morning sunrise walks through the gigantic boulder studded landscape of Secunderabad
Being aghast and running from creepy flashing men...

Discussing our pining for our individual best friends who were no longer in Sec'bad since their Dads had been posted out..
(Funnily, that best friend is not the one I sought out later)

The apprehension and excitement of discovering and making our individual fashion statements at 16 years...

Dance evenings at the Secunderabad Club days...

The live band at the Sec'bad Club, that we would strain to listen to, from my 5 Bolton Road Bungalow, on nights when we teenagers were not allowed to the Grownups dance evenings..

Food fads, chocolate powder heaped on cold milk and how to drink in without the powder getting into our nostrils

Everyday, just discovering the Universe together ....

Mita Vashisht Instagram - Kneeling at his feet...
So blessed am I that Pt Hari Prasad Chaurasia ji attended the Lal Ded presentation,.
And was happy...' अरे तुम गाती भी हो, और सुर में।।।? (Ah you can sing, and in tune.!') he chuckled as he blessed me..

He had just finished his hour long interview with his biographer #satyasaran , her must read book titled #breathofgold, ...

His wit, genius, gentleness, compassion and humility literally brings tears to my eyes that such a person as Hari ji lives in this world, and graces the very air that we breathe....

He chose to stay back after his session, said to Satya ' ये सेशन देखना है मुझे, उसके बाद ही जाऊंगा /I want to stay for this session, after that I will go..(to his suite to rest)
I couldn't have asked for more!!!

#divineflautist #mutavasishtactorslife
#bangalorepoetryfestival2023

Mita Vashisht Instagram - Girl Alone!
A yumm cuppa tea....after two hours of walking around in Pondicherry!!!
Where do I belong?

Mita Vashisht Instagram - CANNES.....
Mumbai airport!!

Mita Vashisht - 1.6K Likes - Oh My Gauche!

The first ever 'professional' photo shoot in Bombay (it was Bombay then, not Mumbai).

I have forgotten the photographer's name, I remember only that he was a kindly Sardarji with a photo studio in Bandra, Linking Road from where I went to pick up the negatives and prints of the photoshoot a few days after the shoot (not to forget the ubiquitous 'contact sheet' that enabled us to choose which prints to enlarge)

There was no makeup person or hair dresser or 'team' to help or to fuss around me, just me with my little makeup pouch and a rubber band to tie up my mane which was glossy and abundant and seemed to have an energy of it's own, (and never needed any setting to look good)

The magazine that wanted the shoot had sent over some oversized 'fancy clothes' that I wasn't sure suited me (how self- conscious and picky I was at that age with 'this is not me') and I felt the least uneasy in this 'sasta' t- shirt that I had come wearing to the location for the shoot...

The poor sweet photographer tried getting me to look less gauche and more 'alluring' .... But Gosh! Even though I was three films and five tv serials old, off the film camera I was just Gauche!

#actressworld #indiancinema #photoshoots #bombay

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Caption : Oh My Gauche! The first ever ‘professional’ photo shoot in Bombay (it was Bombay then, not Mumbai). I have forgotten the photographer’s name, I remember only that he was a kindly Sardarji with a photo studio in Bandra, Linking Road from where I went to pick up the negatives and prints of the photoshoot a few days after the shoot (not to forget the ubiquitous ‘contact sheet’ that enabled us to choose which prints to enlarge) There was no makeup person or hair dresser or ‘team’ to help or to fuss around me, just me with my little makeup pouch and a rubber band to tie up my mane which was glossy and abundant and seemed to have an energy of it’s own, (and never needed any setting to look good) The magazine that wanted the shoot had sent over some oversized ‘fancy clothes’ that I wasn’t sure suited me (how self- conscious and picky I was at that age with ‘this is not me’) and I felt the least uneasy in this ‘sasta’ t- shirt that I had come wearing to the location for the shoot… The poor sweet photographer tried getting me to look less gauche and more ‘alluring’ …. But Gosh! Even though I was three films and five tv serials old, off the film camera I was just Gauche! #actressworld #indiancinema #photoshoots #bombay
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Mita Vashisht - 1.2K Likes - Your Earth Birthday today, 18th June. For many years you celebrated it on the 21st of June...
Mangal shared this pic with me last year. Chandigarh days, outside my house. The year was 1982 or 1983.
#mangaldhillon #actorhindicinema #spiritualist
#MDC #mangaldhillonchannel

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Caption : Your Earth Birthday today, 18th June. For many years you celebrated it on the 21st of June… Mangal shared this pic with me last year. Chandigarh days, outside my house. The year was 1982 or 1983. #mangaldhillon #actorhindicinema #spiritualist #MDC #mangaldhillonchannel
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Mita Vashisht - 1.1K Likes - Starving for Perfection

The first of television that Mangal and I acted in...a single episode story...this was in Delhi. Remember nothing of the name, or the director, or the team except vaguely that it was a story about a freedom fighter and his wife. I remember this though, that this scene was to be shot immediately after lunch break and Mangal and I refused lunch so that we could cry real tears and allow the emotional upheaval to happen in camera (which is not possible if you have just eaten food)
The scene kept getting delayed and by the time it was finally shot at 7 pm we were fainting with hunger....but we achieved the quality of performance that we were so nervous about achieving....
Days of innocence, when we would starve to achieve perfection...

(Years later you use glycerine for tears, and eat your lunch on time, while acting, because you've learnt by now that more often than not, perfection will be put in the dustbin if perchance you are not in the lead role...)

#actorslife #MCD #mangaldhillon # hindiserials #televisionindia #DD

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Caption : Starving for Perfection The first of television that Mangal and I acted in…a single episode story…this was in Delhi. Remember nothing of the name, or the director, or the team except vaguely that it was a story about a freedom fighter and his wife. I remember this though, that this scene was to be shot immediately after lunch break and Mangal and I refused lunch so that we could cry real tears and allow the emotional upheaval to happen in camera (which is not possible if you have just eaten food) The scene kept getting delayed and by the time it was finally shot at 7 pm we were fainting with hunger….but we achieved the quality of performance that we were so nervous about achieving…. Days of innocence, when we would starve to achieve perfection… (Years later you use glycerine for tears, and eat your lunch on time, while acting, because you’ve learnt by now that more often than not, perfection will be put in the dustbin if perchance you are not in the lead role…) #actorslife #MCD #mangaldhillon # hindiserials #televisionindia #DD
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