For such a short career on screen, the glamorous, charismatic Parveen Babi is indelible. In this episode, we focus on two films, Deewaar and Rang Birangi, and because her career was so shaped by her off-screen life, we discuss her experience of schizophrenia, sticking as closely possible to the facts of her experience of schizophrenia and how the film industry, quite frankly, failed her.
Read Karishma Upadhyay's wonderful biography Parveen Babi: A Life!
Available at Amazon and many other sellers.
https://www.amazon.com/Parveen-Babi-Life-Karishma-Upadhyay/dp/9350095785
Read Parveen's 1984 autobiographical essay about her mental illness in Illustrated Weekly at the images in this link:
https://twitter.com/BollywoodTrivia/status/981425373358559233
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