raj kapoor

Rishi Kapoor’s Spectacular Partnership With RD Burman

When we think of the best  composer-actor partnerships of  all times, the names that  come to mind are Raj Kapoor-Shankar-Jaikishan,Shammi… Read More

4th September 2023

On Kargil Diwas, J P Dutta On His Film LOC Kargil

At  4 Hours 15 Minutes, J P Dutta’s LOC Kargil was the lengthiest Hindi film since Raj Kapoor’s Mera Naam Joker. “That’s because… Read More

27th July 2023

The Melancholic Magic Of Mukesh

Mukesh was a singer who never failed his songs. No matter what he  sang he was always a winner with… Read More

23rd July 2023

Sushant Singh Rajput’s Death Changed Bollywood Irreversibly, Subhash K Jha Lists Those Radical Changes

1.     Blind Articles Banned:  The  unsavoury practice  of  writing unsubstantiated slanderous  stories on stars  and escaping  legal repercussions by  not naming… Read More

14th June 2021

Sunil Dutt, The True Feminist Hero,Celebrating The Star-Actor’s Cinema Of Women Empowerment

Among all  the  screen heroes , Sunil Dutt was the  only true feminist. While several leadingmen   pretend to  believe  in  gender equality their actions… Read More

25th May 2021

Hazrat Jaipuri, A Tribute On his 99th Birth Anniversary

Hasrat Jaipuri Saab Was A  Poet Who Thought  Like The  Masses,” Says LataMangeshkar,Paying The Peerless  Poet A Tribute On his  99th  Birth Anniversary… Read More

15th April 2021

Anand 7 Facts You Didn’t Know About This Rajesh Khanna Classic

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… Read More

13th March 2021

Ravindra Jain India ‘Sur’ Das

 Some composers  are born to create beautiful melodies even if they cannot see the world and its creation. Almost entirely… Read More

28th February 2021

Revisiting Rajiv Kapoor’s Prem Granth(It Deserved Better)

Prem Granth(1996), the  only  film   that Rajiv Kapoor directed, was  no ordinary experience. It  was one of the most ambitious  films of  the … Read More

10th February 2021

5 Songs Of The Late Narendra Chanchal That You Probably Don’t Know

  Narendra Chanchal who quietly passed away on January 22  left behind a legacy of  ‘Mata Rani’ Bhajans that  will be chanted sung and  celebrated … Read More

28th January 2021

Raj Kapoor Little Known Facts

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… Read More

15th December 2020

Rahul Rawail’s Biography On Raj Kapoor Is Ready

Filmmaker Rahul  Rawail’s biography  on  Raj Kapoor is ready for  publishing. “It was  actually writer-director Apurva Asrani  who planted the  idea in  my head,  It… Read More

11th December 2020

“I Called Him Shammi Chacha,”Asha Parekh Recalls Her First & Most Favourite Co-Star on His Birth Anniversary

In her  hey-hey-ho-ho days Asha  Parekh worked with all the  top  actors  of  the era. “But Shammi Kapoor  was  my favourite. He  was  everybody’s  favourite.… Read More

21st October 2020