September 12th, 2010

Bollywood – Year by Year – 1969

Important Events

Rajesh Khanna becomes India’s frist superstar with a string of super-hit films like Aradhana and Anand.

The Film Finance Corporation finances Bhuvan Shome (Mrinal Sen) and Uski Roti (Mani Kaul), both shot by K.K. Mahajan inaugurating ‘New Wave Cinema’.

Deaths

The actress Madhubala, immortalized in K. Asif’s Mughal-e-Azam (1960) dies of heart failure at the age of 36 on 23rd February 1969.

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