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Geeta Dutt
A versatile playback singer who could breathe life into her songs, Geeta Dutt was known for the freshness and charm of her voice. Born Geeta Roy, she moved to Bombay with her parents at the age of 12. Even though she lacked formal training in classical music, she impressed music director Hanuman Prasad enough to ...
Asha Bhosle
Gifted with a voice that possesses extraordinary range and versatility, Asha Bhosle has to her credit over 10,000 songs in 14 languages. Together with her legendary sister Lata Mangeshkar, Bhosle has dominated the Indian film singing for more than five decades. Born in Satara, Maharashtra, she received musical training from her father, Dinanath Mangeshkar. She ...
Amirbai Karnataki (1906-1965)
Amirbai Karnataki (born around 1906, died March 3, 1965) was a famous actress/singer and playback singer of the yesteryears and was famous as Kannada Kokila. Mahatma Gandhi was an ardent fan of her song Vaishnav Jaan. Amirbai Karnataki was born in Bilgi village, District of Bijapur in Karnataka into a lower middle class family. Of ...
Tarana
Although she was originally from Iran, Tarana made herself very much at home in Pakistan’s dances and movie worlds. She was discovered by a Lahore filmmaker while waltzing and fox-trotting at Karachi’s myriad dance halls. The movie that made her immensely famous throughout the country, Jaan Pehchan, also starred another Iranian actress, Shahpara, with Mohammad ...
Shahpara
Shahpara was renowned Iranian actress who was invited by producer Mohsin Shirazi (later a popular host of TV chat shows) to work in his production Jaan Pehchan (1967). It was shot under the direction of Fareed Ahmed on locations that were never seen before in Pakistani movies. The Khewra salt mines in the rugged and ...
Rahman
In an era ruled by Waheed Murad, Mohammad Ali and later Nadeem, Rahman was the only Bengali actor-director to rule the box office with his romantic-musical films in the former West Pakistan film industry. Born Abdur Rahman on February 27, 1937, in erstwhile East Pakistan, Rahman made his film debut in Ehtesham’s Bengali film, Ae ...
Pervez Malik
It began in those days when the Pakistani nation had newly earned its freedom — and that included the freedom to dream, which is something which we seem to be forfeiting voluntarily these days. Pervez was nine years old when Pakistan was born. His family had a background in military service, but he got influenced ...
Nisho
Nisho made quite a sensation when she first made her appearance on the big screen in the early 70′s with Baazi. At first people thought she would occupy the slot left by Shamim Ara, which is to say the traditional mashriqui aurat. And that would have been rather quite predictable with her coy mannerism, complete ...
Nabeela
Nabeela was popular supporting actress of Pakistani cinema, mostly active in 60s and 70s. She is best remembered for her powerful performance as Tangawallah‘s wife in Badnaam (1966), a film based on Saadat Hassan Manto’s short story Jhumke. The film depicted the tragedy in the life of an upright Tangawallah (Allauddin) who refuses to be ...
Mumtaz
Mumtaz’s first cinematic appearance wasn’t in a film role, but during two intermittent song interludes in M. Usman’s 1973 Urdu film Farz where she wiggled her voluptuous yet constrained figure. This body kineticism gave way to another outstanding song sequence in Haider Chaudry’s Punjabi film Ziddi with Yusuf Khan, Zamarrud and Firdous. The song, based ...
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Naima Akef:
Naima Akef's father owned the Akef Circus and at the age of four, she began her training as a tr...
Nisho:
Nisho made quite a sensation when she first made her appearance on the big screen in the early ...
Bollywood - Year by Year - 1923: Births
Dev Anand (actor/director/producer) - 26th September - 1923- Bollywood - Year by Year - 1906: Important Events
J.F. Madan's Elphinstone Bioscope Co. dominates indigenous film production.
Abbas Kiarostami:
At the end of the 1990s, an international poll of influential critics and curators named Abbas K...
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