How color changed the face of the film industry? With the invention of Sound in Indian Cinema, the film industry got a tremendous boost, and the business of the film industry escalated multifold. Elated at the enormous money generated due to sound cinema, filmmakers became desperate to invent color films in India. The first filmmaker who did the experimentation in…
Popular film actress Nargis, mother of present-day actor Sanjay Dutt and wife of eminent Indian actor and politician Sunil Dutt, is India’s ‘First’ and the ‘Only’ actress to date to win the prestigious Best Actress Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Award. She won the award for her powerhouse and gigantic performance in Mehboob Khan‘s film Mother India (1957). It may…
Remember the song Ghar aaya mera pardesi….. from Raj Kapoor‘s cult classic film Awaara (1951). The song and the dance sequence shot as a ‘dream sequence’ by film director Raj Kapoor is a milestone in the annals of Indian cinema. The reason why the sequence is regarded as the most iconic scenes in Indian cinema is because it is the…
With the end of the millennium ended the trend of a film’s success measured by a film running consecutively in a single theatre. The introduction of multiplexes started the new trend of measuring a film success. A film now was declared a hit if it collected Rs 100 crore at the box-office in less number of days at cinema houses.…
Two decades later film monarch Mehboob Khan after the huge success of Andaaz (1949) starring Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Nargis decided to make India’s most expensive film. The film was Aan (1952) starring Dilip Kumar and Nadira. To add glitter and glitz he decided to make the film in Technicolor –The color technology used in Hollywood films. Since Ardeshir…
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…
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…
Lights! Camera!! Action!!! These are the trademark lines a film director before he embarks a film shoot. The ‘Director’ is regarded as the ‘Captain’ of the crew because it is his creative vision that takes that shape of an entertaining film. Though Bollywood is packed with maximum male film directors, the female directors also have their share of credits. Since…
Bollywood’s international success attributes to the fact that people outside our culture encircling of different languages have a desire to observe and understand our Indian culture through films which in some countries has gained its popularity. One of the reasons could be is that many westerners think our Indian films are high drama. emotional with lot of costumes, song and…
Bombay Talkies Kismet film popularized double role The movie that made double role a permanent feature in commercial Bollywood film was Kismet (1943). Filmmaker Gyan Mukherjee of Bombay Talkies introduced a unique experimentation of lost and found of identical brothers. The lost and found formula was a big hit in the 60 and 70’s. Remember hit films like Waqt (1965),…
