Saturday, 21 March 2020

Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani- A Film that couldn't be Completed

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An unusual pairing was made by the producer and director M L Anand for the Neelkamal Films in 1958. It was signing Kishore Kumar o...
Friday, 20 March 2020

Rajkumari- The Great Singer of the 40s

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Not many of us remember her today but once she was among the topmost singers of Bollywood. S he sang for 100 films, till the early 1950s...
Thursday, 19 March 2020

Shashi Kapoor - India’s first global star

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Shashi Kapoor( 18 March 1938 – 4 December 2017)  made his debut as a leading man in the 1961 film  Dharmputra . He started as a child ar...
Sunday, 15 March 2020

Sajan Ki Galiyan - An Incomplete Film of Dev Anand

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Sajan Ki Galiyan, 1966. The film, besides Sadhana and Dev Saab, was to be the launchpad of Zaheeda, Nargis’ niece, who later was intr...
Friday, 13 March 2020

Nasir Hussain - The Maker of Rom- Com- Musicals

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Started his film career as a story writer when he joined  Filmistan  in 1948. The famous films he wrote for Filmistan include  Anarkali...
Thursday, 12 March 2020

Urdu Shayari in Bollywood Songs

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Urdu Shayari is primarily a spoken art form and therefore more suited to theatrical and cinematic adaptation. In fact, when this Shayari...
Monday, 9 March 2020

The Changing Trend of Holi Songs in Bollywood

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Since the release of Amitabh Bachchan's "Silsila" in the early eighties,  no Holi celebration in India reached a crescendo...