Some composers are born to create beautiful melodies even if they cannot see the world and its creation. Almost entirely blind, music composer Ravindra Jain was the ‘sur’ das of...
Subhash K Jha Selects Shahid Kapoor’s 5 Finest Films From Ishq Vishq in 2003 to Kabir Singh in 2019, Shahid Kapoor has given us some deeply etched performances creating characters who were rendered interesting by the actor’s skills of ...
1. Jaag Utha Insaan(1984): This , according to me, is the most neglected film of Sridevi’s vast and far-ranging oeuvre. She played a Brahmin girl in love with a Dalitboy(Mithun Chakraborty). Her...
We all know about Meena Kumari’s Pakeezah and Rekha’s Umrao Jaan. These two films epitomize the cinematic tawaif, a combination of poetess and seductress, steeped in the tragic metaphor of the candle that...
Kindly note. It is Dr Madhavan from now on. Tamil star-actor R Madhavan has received the Doctor of Letters (D. Litt.) for his outstanding contribution to arts and cinema by...
Love is not only about togetherness and joy. It is also about being torn apart and the abject grief of losing love. Which are your favourite...
Many consider Mohd Rafi the Crooning Glory of romance. He could sing any Valentine date out of her reluctance with Mere mehboob tujhe meri mohabbat kikasam.Sadly for Rafi, the King of Romance RajeshKhanna preferred Kishore Kumar.But think...
Prem Granth(1996), the only film that Rajiv Kapoor directed, was no ordinary experience. It was one of the most ambitious films of the 1990s, and it qualifies easily as ...
Narendra Chanchal who quietly passed away on January 22 left behind a legacy of ‘Mata Rani’ Bhajans that will be chanted sung and celebrated as long as God and Music...
My Sunday morning started with a call to one of my most favourite people in the entertainment industry.Javed Saab turned a ripe young 76 . When I...
1. At the age of 24, Raj Kapoor became the youngest film director India in 1948 to make Aag ,a blistering film way ahead of its time about a man whose ...
Shabana Azmi is currently in Budapest shooting for Steven Spielberg’s webseries. She was filled with a sense of unreality when news of Soumitra Chatterjee’s death reached her. “It was a rude...
Armie Hammer is an eminently likeable actor . For some strange reason he’s constantly assumed to be gay (which is fine , really) because of his star...
1. Chalo bulava aaya hai mata na bulaya hai(Avtaar): It is widely believed that Avtaar which was one of Rajesh Khanna’s last hits became a craze largely due to this MaataBhajan sung in full-throated glory by Narendra Chanchal and accompanied by Mahendra Kapoor and Asha Bhosle. Audiences...
Do Anjaane(1976)—All of Rekha’s best performances came in the 2nd phase of her career after the miraculous makeover . Do Anjaane was actually the beginning of the new fat-free svelte sexy Rekha’s...
Lies, damned lies! How Hrishikesh Mukherjee loved telling the truth about people who lied. In Anand Rajesh Khana makes up a friendship with strangers on the road pretending to have met them in...