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Nadia
Nadia tossed the myth of the docile heroine into the air and shot it to smithereens with her trademark hey-y-y-y. She fenced with villains atop moving trains, swung precariously from chandeliers, whipped the bad guy and did a multitude of stunts without ever resorting to a stuntman — probably because no stuntman would do half ...
K.L Saigal (1904 – 1947)
Stars are normally advised to take stardom with a pinch of salt … Saigal took his with a pint of spirits. This singing superstar of the 30s and the 40s became famous for his extremely popular songs like `Gham diye mushtaqil’ and `Dukh ke ab din’ — each number a new elegy to the death ...
Devika Rani
Devika Rani is one of the most delicately glamorous cinema stars we have ever seen. Sunday Pictorial, London You will never hear a lovelier voice or diction. Or see a lovelier face. Devika Rani is a singular beauty. The Star, London Devika Rani is so lovely, she puts the stereotyped charms of Hollywood blondes completely ...
Sulochana
Sulochana’s was the visage that changed the face of Indian cinema. Before her, the socially-disreputable job of playing cinema heroine was usually assigned to slim young men as even prostitutes refused to exhibit themselves before the whole country. It was not easy convincing the Anglo Indian Sulochana (Ruby Myers) to take on such a dubious ...
Nadeem
He may have made his debut as Pakistan’s answer to Dilip Kumar but Mirza Nazeer Baig Mughal has evolved from a super-hit actor into a superstar during his 43-year career. The journey that began with Chakori in 1967 is still going strong. Not only has Nadeem outlived his contemporaries but also inspired generations with his ...
Shahina Ghaznavi
Known for her beautiful blue eyes, Shahina Ghaznavi was the daughter of well known music director Rafiq Ghaznavi. Rafiq Ghaznavi had quite a few mistresses and Shahina’s mother was one of them. Shahina Ghaznavi was introduced as a leading lady in Masud Pervaiz’s Beli (1950) opposite Santosh Kumar. The film was based on Saadat Hasan ...
Yash Chopra
Yash Chopra is, without doubt, one of the most significant directors to emerge from the Hindi popular cinema—or, as it is now more commonly known,”Bollywood.” Chopra began his career in the late 1950s making the romantic Dhool Ka Phool (1959) (Blossom of Dust), and throughout the 1960s made a number of impressive features such as ...
Mira Nair
Mira Nair came to international prominence with a successful first feature Salaam Bombay! (1988). She had begun her career as a documentary maker and brought the immediacy of that genre to her debut, which focused on a group of street kids forging a meager existence on the streets of Mumbai. The film’s success meant Nair ...
Subhash Ghai
Indian native Subhash Ghai began his film career after completing his education at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, Maharashtra. His first picture to receive critical recognition was Kalicharan (1976). It told the story of a police officer who goes undercover to investigate a socially connected individual with ties to crime; the ...
Abbas Kiarostami
At the end of the 1990s, an international poll of influential critics and curators named Abbas Kiarostami that decade’s most important filmmaker—no mean feat for a self-taught cineaste whose earliest movies were shorts made for Iran’s Centre for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults. But those films display breathtaking originality in their fresh, ...
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Buddha Gujjar (2002): Syed Noor has, during the last decade or so, acquired the status of the filmmaker in Pakistan but ...
Manmohan Desai:
In Mard, Dara Singh matched his strength with a plane!
In Saccha Jhootha, Mumtaz took a truth...
Mahpara:
Flamboyant girls in printed fabrics have been more than a few in every industry. And Lollywood h...
Zahoor Raja:
There is something about the old guard that has wholesomeness to it. That’s not to decry the yo...- Munir Sarhadi : A music concert is on, continuing till the wee hours of the morning. Many vocalists and instrumental...
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