Every year in the Nightingale Lata Mangeshkar’s home Prabhu Kunj on Peddar Road, the Ganpati Festival is a period of great joy and celebration. The doors of the...
Having known Aadesh Shrivastava and his devoted wife Vijayta for many years, I wondered how she was going to survive without him. “Please come and see him . You...
Rakshabandhan: The brother-sister affection so emphatically underlined in the Hindi film industry in Abhishek Bachchan’s profound and protective love for his sister Shweta Nanda and Sara Ali Khan’s doting...
It’s hard to believe that Gulzar Saab is 82. His wit and poetic perceptions still remain as sharp today as the time when he wrote his...
Lata Mangeshkar: “In 70 years India has come a long way. Communication is now just a click . Ironically we were a much closer-knit people when communication...
Kishore Kumar loved to see himself as a patron of the arts and would often say that Satyajit Ray’s critically acclaimed Pather Panchali would not have been made...
As The Ever-Gorgeous Mumtaz Turns A Year Older, Subhash K Jha Picks His 5 Favourite Performances Of One Of His Favourite Actresses Where do I begin...
Songs Of Manoj Kumar Raj Kapoor, Raj Khosla and Manoj Kumar had the best music sense ever heard and seen in commercial Hindi cinema. They knew...
5 Bollywood Rain Songs Bollywood Rain Songs for every Lover Out there, Here is the Playlist.. Rimjhim gire saaawan R D Burman’s timeless rain ditty from Basu Chatterjee’s Manzil comes in...
Being Kishore Kumar’s son wasn’t easy for Amit Kumar. The comparisons never stopped. And to be fair, Junior was no patch on Senior. He survived the comparisons only because ...
Music was a gift bequeathed to Rahul Dev Burman by his father, Sachin Dev Burman. If Burman Dada immortalised himself with his two manjhi songs —...
Subhash K Jha Picks Nutan’s 5 Finest Many of her fans consider Nutan to be the finest dramatic actress of Hindi cinema. The films below prove her weight in gold. 1. Seema(1955): Nutan played a juvenile...
Bombay Talkies (2013): A girl on a railway station who croons Lata Mangeshkar songs with aching luminosity,a stoic gluttonous ostrich,a flirty cocky gay entertainment journalist, a closet actor, a little...
You know Rajesh Roshan for Dil kaye kare and Bhool gayi sab kuch(Julie), Pardesia and Tauba tauba(Mr Natwarlal), Disco 82(Khuddar), Choo kar mere man ko(Yarana), Jab koi baat bigad jaaye(Jurm), Kaho na pyar hai(title song) and Jaati hoon main(Karan Arjun). But there is much more to Rajesh Roshan than these obvious chartbusters . I truly believe his best tunes came before he...
I can’t deny Aamir is the most adventurous performer in India. Aamir has constantly taken risks, gone against the flow and generally been more than just...
Arguably this is the worst Diwali in the history of our civilization. A virus has created worldwide havoc leaving us bereft and bewildered. Time to escape...