India’s most iconic Film Production House the RK Films drew its curtain by selling the RK Studios to Godrej Properties. Ranbir Kapoor the youngest member of RK clan does not seem to continue filmmaking. Likewise, the plight of many top Film Production companies like V Shantaram‘s Rajkamal Studios, Wadia Brothers Basant Studios, AR Kardar‘s Kardar Studios and Kamal Amrohi‘s Kamalistan…
Located in Gujarat, the Bhuj Rudra Mata Air Force Base shares its runway with the Bhuj domestic airport. Before the airbase was destroyed by the 2001 Gujarat earthquake and entirely reconstructed, another calamity happened 30 years prior that is etched into the minds of every Indian. A heroic event, which recounts the story of 300 absolutely fearless women, who left…
If there is any freedom fighter whose biopic has been made umpteen times, it is India’s youngest martyred Shaheed Bhagat Singh who created havoc in the British empire and sacrificed his life for Bharatmata in the ’20s. Thus decade after decade Bollywood has saluted this brave son of India. In fact, there have been a total of 7 films made…
In the mid ’70s the tale of dacoits became stale and emerged the era of underworld dons. Writer Salim–Javed in their film Deewaar (1975) designed the character of Amitabh Bachchan based on the life of India’s most notorious Gold smuggler Haji Mastan, who made headlines with his surrender during the emergency. Later film director Milan Luthria made a brilliant full-scale…
The year 2001 began with South film genius Shankar (maker of Rajinikanth film Robot series) made a really Hat Ke film called Nayak – The Real Hero starring Anil Kapoor. The film depicted a common man ruling the state for one day and trying to outburst corruption, red-tapism, and all illegal activities. The movie had Anil Kapoor playing T.V. journalist…
Hindi cinema’s genres are very loosely defined, with almost all films having a central romantic theme. It’s not just the romantic melodramas, the romcoms, the romantic action films… The typical story and structure of a Bollywood romance is that a beautiful man and woman meet, take some time to fall in love, then an unexpected crisis brings us to the…
