He Directs!: On Kishore Kumar’s birth anniversary, August 4, looking back at the first film he directed: Kishore Kumar is fondly remembered as a singer, a comic actor and…
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The Woman Who Would Not Weep: On Dimple Kapadia’s 65th birthday, revisiting her National Award-winning film Rudaali. The woman is called Sookhi Shanichari (Dry Shanichari), because of her notorious inability…
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The Outlaws Of Chambal: Fifty years ago, the first mass surrender of dacoits had taken place in a Chambal village (source a report in The Hindustan Times by Shruti Tomar…
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The Making Of A Superstar: On Rajesh Khanna’s birth anniversary, a flashback to one of his first films. Jatin Khanna, an ordinary young man from Mumbai, made it to the…
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Raaj Kumar came to be known for playing urbane parts, but in one of his early films he played a starving farmer to perfection. On the actor’s 95th birth anniversary,…
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Fifteen years ago, a mainstream film coined the word Gandhigiri. Revisiting Rajkumar Hirani’s masterpiece on Gandhi Jayanti: Lage Raho Munnabhai is that rare comedy that engages your mind, heart, emotions…
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On Dev Anand’s birth anniversary, a look at one of his lesser known films, Tamasha. Audiences have such a strong image in their minds of Dev Anand as a suave,…
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Fifteen years ago, Dor, of the finest Hindi films about female bonding was released. A flashback the Nagesh Kukunoor film: Indian films, like Indian society, do not care much about…
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When two war movies release together on OTT to mark Independence day, looking back at Chetan Anand’s Haqeeqat (1964), one of the finest war films made in India: Very few…
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As a tribute to Dilip Kumar, revisiting one of his ‘Tragedy King’ hits, Jogan (1950), in which, like in many other films, he fell in love with an unattainable woman.…