Natasha Coutinho (MUMBAI MIRROR; January 9, 2017)

Bimal Roy, the man behind classics like Do Bigha Zamin, Parineeta, Sujata, and Bandini, now has a road in Bandra named after him - Bimal Roy Path. It was inaugurated on his 51st death anniversary on January 8 by Priya Dutt. The signboard has been designed by John Abraham's brother, Alan.

Bimal Roy's son, Joy, who has lived on Mount Mary Road all his life, still finds it hard to believe that a part of the road has been named after his father who moved there in 1954. “It was an important time in his life because that's when he started his first production, Do Bigha Zamin. It's a huge honour,“ he exults, recalling that his father was so unhappy with the way Kabuliwala had been shot that he spent the Rs two lakh in his bank account to reshoot the film, reasoning that he couldn't release a film he was unhappy with.

The family had been trying to get the road named after Roy when Sunil Dutt was MP. After he passed away, it was passed to his daughter, Priya, along with MLA Baba Siddiqui and Councillor Asif Zakaria. “Six months ago, I learnt that there's a proposal in the BMC to name the road after my father,“ he informs.