This year, Vijay Anand’s Guide turned 50. And when the seasons unfurl in Yahan Kaun Hai Tera even today, you watch without blinking. Dev Anand’s Raju sheds his past visibly and morphs from an ex-convict to a wanderer to a yogi by default when a monk covers his curled up body with a saffron shawl. […]
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Waheeda Rehman: ‘Don’t struggle Against The Inevitable’
In the mid 90s, Waheeda Rehman was negotiating a cusp in her life. After spending a few blissful decades in Bengaluru with husband Kanwaljit (with whom she had starred in the 1964 film Shagoon) in a sprawling hacienda called ‘Gharonda,’ raising two children, initiating an organic cereal brand with friend and neighbour Asharfa Sattar, she was […]
The Illusion Of Fame
Dear God, how time flies. Kumar Gaurav, of melting , caramel eyes and bee-stung lips and the signature blue jeans and red jacket that he wore along with the coolest vibe we had seen a young hero sport in the 80s, for a while atleast, is in his mid 50s! I watch him sometimes in […]
Guru Dutt: Unquenched Thirst
I discovered Guru Dutt rather late in life. As a teenager, I always found him too intense. Someone who reminded me of dark, forbidden corners within. Of spiralling gloom you could lose yourself in, just the way he had. Even though he had made sunlit films like Baazi, Jaal, Aar Paar, Mr and Mrs 55; […]