Our desi film actors not only have to do stunts, fight and create a drama in Hindi films, but they must also be able to do the occasional dancing and romance. These incredibly multi-faceted Bollywood heros have mastered these and are now making waves in the world of Hollywood too! We present to you some of our Bollywood actors who…
Getting films always had been a task of challenges for Amitabh Bachchan even after he got recognition for his outstanding performance as an angry man in Zanjeer. Amitji could get the role of the famous Vijay Verma in Deewaar when the writers Salim–Javed rejected Rajesh Khanna. Deewaar is the film that changed Hindi cinema’s fate. Even after grabbing the film in…
In the 70’s filmmaker, Manmohan Desai wrote history by directing not one or two or three but delivering a chain of four-hit films in a single year! The year was 1977 and the films were Parvarish, Dharam Veer, Chacha Bhatija and Amar Akbar Anthony! While all the four movies celebrated Silver Jubilee, Amar Akbar Anthony broke all records as it…
Prithviraj Kapoor is unarguably Indian Cinema’s Bhishma Pitamah. He was one of the most dazzling jewels studded in the crown of Indian cinema. He gave credibility to drama with his Prithvi Theatre. Most importantly, he raised the standards of Indian cinema to dizzy heights and gave the film profession a place of dignity and nobility, which otherwise was belittled by…
Daag, Kabhie Kabhie, Kaala Patthar, Silsila, Chandni, Mashaal, Lamhe, Darr, the list goes on…Well, the man who made these memorable hit films is Yash Chopra, the exceptionally brilliant filmmaker who also has the distinction of directing some ‘Biggest’ hit films of Indian cinema like Waqt, Deewaar, Trishul, Ittefaq etc. Born in 1932, in Jullundur, Punjab, Yash Chopra did his graduation…
Mother’s character in Bollywood has been generally restricted to a sober and self-sacrificing lady, however, with a few exceptional characters like Nargis in Mother India, Nirupa Roy in Deewaar and Rakhee in Ram Lakhan, Indian Film History (IFH) hereunder select few out-of-the-box and most powerful mother characters ever written in Bollywood. The characters that top the list is unarguably the…
Bollywood movies are incomplete without the character of sobbing and sacrificing mother. Hence many actresses got stereotyped after playing a successful role of a mother in one movie. The first actress who is known as the ‘Queen of Misery’ and is synonymous with the character of the mother is Nirupa Roy. In fact, she won fame as a mother after…
Mere paas Maa hai…. This super hit dialogue from Amitabh Bachchan‘s film Deewaar encapsulates the worth of MOTHER. It drives home the point that no wealth in this world is equivalent to the eternal love of a mother. Hence each year in the second week of May, the world celebrates Mother’s Day, a day dedicated to the selfless sacrifice of…
Be it Sheila Ki Jawani or Munni Badnaam Hui or the 80’s popular Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai…. Item songs have been an integral part of Bollywood since the inception of Bollywood in the 30′. The only difference is that earlier the item songs were restricted to the vamps and now the top actresses are in the race to grab…
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…
