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Do aankhen baarah haath (1957)
Do aankhen baarah haath won many awards at international film festivals, including the Silver Bear in Berlin, and it remains the only Hindi mainstream film that has been screened at the London Film Festival to date. However, it was only post-1955 and the release of Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali (1955) that ‘art cinema’ emerged in ...
C.I.D. (1956)
This is one of Hindi cinema’s few experiments with film noir. It engages with the genre fully, down to its rainy night street scenes and relentless emphasis on icons of modernity, such as telephones, cars, guns, newspapers and houses with sliding panels, trapdoors, etc. Inder Raj Anand took elements of film noir and mixed them ...
Rann (2010)
Amidst the abundance of directors vying for mainstream success in Bollywood, Ram Gopal Varma (RGV) is a rare breed. He directs movies that fall out of conventional Indian cinema and it seems he does it for the art of storytelling rather than aiming at box-office success. Since the critical success of the resounding Rangeela, RGV ...
Satya (1998)
Cast: Urmila Matondkar, Chekravarthy, Manoj Bajpai, Shefali Chhaya, Saurabh Shukla Director: Ram Gopal Varma Music: Vishal Bharadwaj Lyrics: Gulzar Capsule Review: One of India’s most influential crime dramas, Satya took its astute and original director Ram Gopal Varma into the bowels of underworld crime in Mumbai. Done in a relentless documentary style, the stark visuals ...
Shree 420 (1955)
Shree 420 was a worldwide hit on its release and even today it remains popular. Raj Kapoor reprises his Chaplinesque tramp of Awaara for this film. (The 420 of the title refers to the section of the Indian Penal Code that deals with fraud, so the film’s title means ‘Mr Fraudster’.) Raju (Raj Kapoor) pretends ...
Sholay (1975)
Generally accepted to be the greatest Hindi film of all time, this film appeals to everyone and is always a good choice to show to people who have never seen a Hindi film before, as it needs no cultural explanations (even though they can add to the meaning). Jai (Amitabh Bachchan) and Veeru (Dharmendra) are ...
Teesri Manzil (1966)
Cast: Shammi Kapoor, Asha Parekh, Premnath, Helen Director: Vijay Anand Music: R.D. Burman Lyrics: Majrooh Sultanpuri Capsule Review: Blending producer Nasir Husain’s trademark formula of frolic and romancewith director Vijay Anand’s penchant for using song, dance and drama as extensions of the characters’ inner world, Teesri Manzil created a storm at the box office. The ...
Ganga Jamna (1961)
Ganga Jamna is one of the finest examples of a popular theme of Indian cinema, namely that of the good and bad brother. Gunga (Dilip Kumar), framed for a crime by a landowner, becomes an outlaw, while his younger brother, Jamna (Nasir Khan, Dilip Kumar’s real-life brother), whom he has educated, becomes a police officer. ...
Shakti (1982)
This film is always remembered as the one time that Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan played father and son. While both stars had played the role of the person who becomes a criminal but remains honest and decent, here the father is the police officer while the son is the outlaw with whom he comes ...
Taxi Driver (1954)
Synopsis Dev Anand’s best-known ‘proletarian’ performance as a taxi driver in a story inspired by film noir. Mangal (DevAnand) rescues Mala (Kalpana Kartik) from some hoodlums. This act of chivalry leads to a series of encounters with a violent criminal gang who, later in the film, steal Mangal’s cab to commit a bank robbery. Mala, ...
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