Bhaag Milkha Bhaag(2013): History is created in several ways. One of them is cinema. And if Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Bhaag Milkha Bhaag seems like a befitting homage to the flying spirit of India’s greatest runner...
There is much more to Uttam Singh than Dil Toh Pagal Hai. Uttam Singh along with his partner Jagdish gave soulful songs in Manoj Kumar’s Painter Babu and Waaris. Uttam and Jagdish were the regular music arrangers for Raamlaxman After Jagdish’s death in 1988 Uttam Singh struck gold...
Paan Singh Tomar(2012): Some films are meant to run that extra mile to go beyond being a mere cinematic experience.As we see names of real-life athletes who...
Raamlaxman who was actually Vijay Patil , was best known for his stupendous chartbusters in Sooraj Barjatya’s Maine Pyar Kiya , Hum Aapke Hain Koun and Hum…Saath Saath Hain had a long and chequered innings as a music composer. He started his musical partnership...
1. Dulhan banungi doli chadungi by Lata Mangeshkar & Manna Dey(Woh Jo Hasina): An impossibly high-pitched compositions and a marked departure from Raamlaxman’s style. Normally he preferred low-key low-octave tunes. But here he pulled out all stops,With...
Filmmakers in Bengal love Tagore, not just Sharmila but also the Grand Old Man of letters Rabindranath Tagore whose novels and short stories have been ternally adapted by Bengali filmmakers from Satyajit Ray(Teen...
Nargis Dutt was only 51 when we lost her to cancer in 1981. Her last wish was to see her darling son Sanjay Dutt on the big screen in Rocky. That...
The visionary filmmaker who directed Indian cinema’s first multi-starrer Waqt …If Baldev Raj Chopra had lived longer he would be 106 years old on April 22. History has been a...
Hasrat Jaipuri Saab Was A Poet Who Thought Like The Masses,” Says LataMangeshkar,Paying The Peerless Poet A Tribute On his 99th Birth Anniversary If Hasrat Jaipuri had lived longer he would have...
At one point in her career(circa 1973-75) Jaya Bhaduri was a bigger star than Amitabh Bachchan.Her much-lauded performances in the obvious films Abhimaan, Uphaar, KoraKagaz, etc need no recommendation. But what about the Jaya Bhaduri ...
Last week I drove down to a multiplex in Patna for my screening of Roohi, a movie about spooks, ghosts and chaudails. Aptly the mall looked like a ghost...
The captivating enigmatic Rekha may not be seen on screen these days. But she is pursuing her secret passion…no, not what you think…Rekhaji is heavily into singing, and ...
Anand marked the first of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s 3 historic collaborations with RajeshKhanna, the other two being Bawarchi and Namak Haraam. Anand is without a shred of doubt Rajesh Khanna’s career’s finest performance.Just how he got the role...
The Married Woman (AltBalaji/Zee 5) Starring Riddhi Dogra, Monica Dogra, Imaad Shah Directed by Sahir Raza Rating: ** ½ This could have been a lot more than what it finally is. A mirror of a middleclass marriage...
Right. So we all know about the great women’s pictures from Mother India to Arth to Pink. But there are some absolute gems featuring female heroes that...
Like any possessive wife Asha Bhosle hated to see her husband work with any other woman. A hugely talented music composer R D Burman was allowed to work with only one...