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Raj Kapoor – Establishing R K Studios
____________________ Back to Legends – Raj Kapoor ____________________ Once Raj Kapoor had tasted success after producing and directing Aag, there was no looking back for him. His imagination soared the heights of fancy and he lived, ate and breathed cinema. He also began realizing the need to create his own cinematic environment around him. These ...
Raj Kapoor – Coming Into His Own
____________________ Back to Legends – Raj Kapoor ____________________ As filmmaker, Raj Kapoor was never young. He was neither hesitant nor an amateur. Even to his first film Aag, he brought an experience which may have been simmering in his brain long before he actually took up the director’s baton. He knew what he wanted and ...
Raj Kapoor – Early Years
____________________ Back to Legends – Raj Kapoor ____________________ (Born 14th December 1924 — died 2nd June 1988) Ranbir Raj Kapoor, like many pre-partition Indians, was born in Pakistan, in Peshawar, to Prithviraj Kapoor and Ramsarni Kapoor. Few know that apart from the flamboyant Shammi Kapoor and the charming Shashi Kapoor, Raj Kapoor had two more ...
Lollywood – Bollywood… the never ending bond
Here are some well known and not so well known personalities from Lollywood and Bollywood who are/were related to each other either through blood or marriage… Dilip Kumar and Nasir Khan Dilip Kumar can be considered as one of the living Legends of Bollywood. His name needs no formal introduction. His brother Nasir Khan played ...
Foreign front: When time doesn’t matter
I was still in school when my father dragged me to watch the film, Garam Hawa, insisting that I needed exposure to some good cinema. I was hoping that none of my friends would see me going in the cinema hall, as we ‘believed’ that this film was meant for ‘oldies’. Films for us in ...
Nimmi – Down the Memory Lane
Pictures accompanying this article – Pic 1 – Pic 2 – Pic 3 – Pic 4 Today’s event can be tomorrow’s memory. Every moment that passes becomes a memory and I, for one, diligently collect all kinds of memories, both happy and sad, because the happy memories alone cannot make up a full life. Now ...
Anarkali – Fact or Fiction ?
It is now believed that Anarkali was in her forties or older when she was suspected of having an affair with the heir apparent, Prince Salim, who was then in the thirtieth year of his life and father to at least three sons from numerous wives. Salim’s father, the otherwise enlightened Emperor Akbar, found out ...
Pramila – The first Miss India
The saga of independent India’s first-ever beauty queen came to a close on August 6 2006, when Esther Abraham, screen name Pramila, faded into an eternal dissolve. A born rebel, she walked out of her conservative Baghdadi Jewish home in Kolkata at 17 to join a theatre company. She went on to realise her real ...
Dev Anand on Suraiya
Off and on, I’ve fallen in and out of love. After all, I’m a human being, not a god or a sanyasi. But when you’re seriously in love,you propose to the girl and tell her, `I can’t live without you.’ That happened only once in my life — with Suraiya. It was my first and ...
World Records 2010 – Hollywood Heroes
MARLON BRANDO The first actor to break the $1 million dollar threshold was Marlon Brando (USA), who was paid $1.25 million – equivalent today to $8.8 million – for his starring role as Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (USA, 1962). With his small part as Jor-El in Superman (1978), he also broke the ...
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Bollywood - ‘Please save my husband’ - Kavita Krishnamurthy:
The entertainment industry has been rattled by news that violinist L Subramaniam — husband of p...
Sinbad the Sailor (1952) - Ada sai Jhoomte:
This beautiful song was composed by Chitragupta who was still a struggling music director at tha...
Kambakkht Ishq (2009):
After a long tedious week, what one desperately needs is mindless entertainment. And this is pre...- Pakistani Film Database – 1955:
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- Bollywood - Year by Year - 1902: Important Events
J. F. Madan launches his bioscope show in a tent on Calcutta's Maidan, the foundat...
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