After the huge success of Bombay Talkies film Ziddi and AVM‘s Bahar, Pran became a name to reckon. No big-budget films were complete without Pran. Film starring top stars like Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand, and Raj Kapoor had Pran as the key villain. For instance, AVM Films Chori Chori, Bimal Roy’s Madhumati, S. Mukeerjee’s Munimji, etc. Similarly in the 1960s…
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…
Technicolor was a costly matter mostly because the prints have to be developed in London but the quality of rich color was stunning and impressive hence mostly big-budget films made by top filmmakers were made in Technicolor but every filmmaker could effort the cost of Technicolor hence an American company Eastman Kodak launched Eastmancolor that created sensations in color films…
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…
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…
