From May 1913 to April 2013 – from Raja Harishchandra to Ek Thi Daayan- from silent movies to Dolby-digital sound mixing, and from Black-and-White and Eastman colour to digital image processing and animation – Indian Cinema has come a long ...Read More
What the remakes of old classic films like Chashme Baddoor miss out on is an ingredient called innocence because you can't ever recapture what is lost. Or fake the sense of wonder conveyed by Farooque Sheikh and Dipti Naval on ...Read More
A sharply sculpted face with cheekbones bouncing off light. Hair, rippling like silk across the screen. Sensuality that was wide-eyed innocence in one instant and overwhelmingly dark and compelling in another. Crystal clear diction. In an era before size-zero became a template, she was perfection in leotards, swim suits ...Read More
Every film loving generation in India has had a definitive Hindi film heroine. Suraiya was possibly India's first female superstar and was a perfect fit for the cinema of 40s and the 50s that was rich with Urdu poetry and ...Read More
On October 10, 1964, the whole nation was shocked to hear about the sudden and tragic death of the great stalwart of Hindi cinema Guru Dutt. Not only because he was a great film director, producer and actor; but because he ...Read More
My first memory of Rajesh Khanna is the song, "Accha Toh Hum Chalte Hain (Aan Milo Sajna, 1970) and of me sighing exaggeratedly like he did in the song. And of listening to his songs from Mere Jeevan Sathi (1972) in an ...Read More
Heard of the itch that must be scratched? Indians have many such itches. Cricket. Politics. Films. Film stars. Views on religion. Food. Sentiments. To name a few, serious! But across all the languages we speak in this country, officially or unofficially, ...Read More
Just an observation. No one filled a T-shirt quite like Joy Mukherjee. Remember him pulling a rickshaw (in a striped T-shirt) with the fragile Sadhna in his debut film Love in Simla? Or him serenading Sharmila Tagore with Dil Ki Awaz Bhi ...Read More
The good thing about cheaper DVDs flooding the market is that one no longer has to think twice before picking up a film. My recent acquisitions include Raj Kapoor’s Prem Rog, Raj Sippy’s kidnapping caper Inkaar, Gulzar’s Khushboo and a ...Read More
Some believe 80's to be the worst period in the history of Indian cinema. I beg to differ - but only a wee bit. My early film viewing experience is mostly spread across late 80s- early 90s so I could safely say I've ...Read More
Are you looking for a DVD of the Apu Trilogy? Log on to a site called "Movie Mail" (http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/film/12274/The-Apu-Trilogy-(Box-Set)/) and buy it online for 26.99 GBP...Or do you prefer Ritwik Ghatak? Get DVDs for The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara) or A River Called Titas ...Read More
I learnt at five just what Hindi cinema means to middle class India when I heard my father talk about Dilip Kumar's death scene in Ganga Jamuna.``Tabahi macha di,'' (he was devastating) he said. Films were a part of everything we ...Read More
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