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…
If you feel that a Bollywood actor’s face seems very familiar, they probably might have started off as a child actor at some point in their life. Being comfortable in front of the camera from an early age gives the stars a heads up to continue their career into acting. The innocence and vulnerability that these actors exude as children,…
Shahrukh Khan is a Commerce graduate with a degree in Economics but landed in Bollywood. The heartthrob of millions across the globe i.e. King Khan aka Shahrukh Khan. He was a student of Hansraj College. He also did Master’s degree in Mass Communications at Jamia Millia Islamia but had to quit half-way to pursue his acting career in TV and…
Popular choreographer Farah Khan, who won as many as six Filmfare Awards and a single National Film Award for Best Choreography turned director with Main Hoon Na (2004) produced by Shah Rukh Khan‘s the Red Chillies Entertainment. The film was packed with emotion, drama, action, and comedy. In nutshell, it had all the ‘masala’ necessary for a Bollywood potboiler a…
Aparna Sen the beautiful actress turned film director revived the ‘Satyajit Ray‘ kind of parallel cinema in India. She was a top actress of the late 1960s and 1970s in Bengali and Hindi films. She jumped in to film direction in the early ’80s with actor-producer Shashi Kapoor‘s English film 36 Chowringhee Lane, which Kapoor had made to explore the…
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…
Bhumika (1977) The role that established 22-year-old Smita Patil as an actress of extraordinary merit. It remains, arguably, her best work. Director Shyam Benegal scaled this film on a creatively ambitiously level. The talent involved was uniformly megawatt. Girish Karnad and Satyadev Dubey wrote the screenplay and dialogue on which Vijay Tendulkar also collaborated. Govind Nihalani was the cinematographer while…
Shammi Kapoor’s ‘China Town’ popularized the theme of good versus evil In 1962 filmmaker Shakti Samanta wrote a unique script of two identical brothers, one a simpleton and a good human being while the other brother a wicked and evil character. The film was China Town. In this film, Shammi Kapoor played the double role of a powerful Don called…
When Bollywood Inspired Hollywood Hindi filmmakers have always kept a meticulous eye on Hollywood and international films for drawing “inspiration” or getting an “idea” for their movies. Be it Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif starrer Bang Bang which was an official remake of Knight And Day or director Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film Black which had a plot similar to that…
