A Tribute To Dev Anand At 10pm on Saturday at Washington Hotel in London’s upmarket district of Mayfair, there was chaos all of a sudden. Outside, two ambulances pulled up. Two paramedics rushed into the hotel lobby. The receptionist shouted “Room 207”. The paramedics headed for the lift with their first aid equipment. But in suite 207, it was…
How Eastmancolor succeeded over Technicolor in Indian cinema! Remember the hits song Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya from K.Asif magnum opus film Mughal-E-Azam (1960) or Chaudhvin Ka Chand Ho Ya Aftab Ho… from Guru Dutt’s Chaudhvin Ka Chand (1960) or the super hit song Hasta Hua Noorani Chehra from the film Parasmani (1963)? Guess! What is common in these…
Recently given a hit film Golkeri, Malhar Thakar is ruling the hearts again. The actor had a rough year 2019, but is on a troll this year. He is upping the news headlines these days with the list of the movies he is been doing this year. He is ruling the list of Upcoming Gujarati Movies 2020. The actor recently…
True a majority of actors including Amitabh Bachchan who turned producers had to bite the dust. In fact, even Shah Rukh Khan tasted failure when he launched Dreamz Unlimited and had to quit film production with the flops like – Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, Asoka and Chalte Chalte. However, it may surprise readers that actors who failed in the…
Film making may be a director’s craft and a film star’s glitz to pull in the audience into cinema halls but without a sensible ‘producer’ a film cannot be imagined. Hence producers dominated filmmaking in the past. The glorious Prabhat Films founded by actor/director V Shantaram laid the foundation of filmmaking in India in 1929. Prabhat Films made several thought-provoking…
Generally, it is believed that in Bollywood some stalwart Music directors are highly respected and have no stains of plagiarism (copy –cat). One name that tops the list is the great Music composer S.D. Burman who gave several hits like Gata Rahe Mera Dil.. (Guide), Mere Sapnoon Ki Rani … (Aradhana), Teri Bindiya Re ( Abhimaan), Hum Hai Rahi Pyar…
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…
Khudi ko kar buland itna, Ki har taqdeer se pehle, Khuda bande se khud, Poochey bata teri, Raza kya hai??? Eminent poet Allama Iqbal, who wrote the patriotic song Sare Jahan Se Accha…. has written the above inspirational verse that means – A man should raise himself to such dizzy heights that before writing his destiny God would ask you;…
R.D. Burman joined his father S.D. Burman in 1955. He was just 18 years and began as an assistant music director with Guru Dutt‘s classic film Kaagaz Ke Phool and continued assisting his father till 1975 when his father expired. The highpoint of R.D. Burman was that though he had become an independent music director in 1961 with the film…
On June 27, the nation remembered the music Monarch R.D. Burman on his 80th birth anniversary. As a tribute to the legendary music director, Indian Film Industry (IFH) salutes his genius and enlightens readers about the hidden facts of the R.D. Burman in a weeklong six-part series. The key reason behind the genius of Rahul Dev Burman aka R.D. Burman…
