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Casablanca (1942)
The most beloved Academy Award Best Picture winner of all, this romatic war melodrama epitomizes the 194os craze for studio-bound exotica, with the Warners lot transformed into a fantastical North Africa that has far more resonance than any mere real place possibly could. Casablanca also offers more cult performers, quotable lines, instant clichés, and Hollywood ...
Citizen Kane (1941)
Since 1962, Sight & Sound magazine’s oft-cited critics’ poll of the greatest films ever made has placed Citizen Kane, Orson Welles’s remarkable debut film, at the top of the list. By 1998, the American Film Institute called it the greatest movie of all time. It also garnered Best Picture awards from the New York Film ...
Umrao Jaan (1981)
This film is based on the Urdu novel Umrao Jaan Ada by Mirza Mohammad Hadi ‘Ruswa’, published in 1899, which presents the story of Umrao Jaan, a courtesan of Lucknow and Kanpur, as supposedly true. It is set at the last moment of Lucknow’s glory: the 1857 uprisings occur in the novel when Umrao Jaan ...
Pakeezah (1971)
While courtesans feature in many films, mostly in minor roles, the two great films in which they are the main heroines are set in the nineteenth- century Avadhi court of Lucknow (Umrao Jaan), and in Delhi and the Punjabi princely state of Patiala in the early years of the twentieth century (Pakeezah), as these were ...
Masoom (1982)
This story of an illegitimate child is a real weepie, which picks up the theme of forgiveness that runs through so many Hindi movies. It is said to be based on Man, Woman and Child (1982), a film adapted from the book of the same name by Erich Segal of Love Story fame, although, in ...
Omkara (2006)
Vishal Bhardwaj’s compelling adaptation of Othello, released theatrically in the US and UK in summer 2006, sticks more closely to Shakespeare than his Maqbool (2003) followed Macbeth, yet still makes several inspired changes, the first in its opening scene. On a parched hillside in Uttar Pradesh, Bhardwaj’s lago, Langda, tells a dim, wimpish bridegroom, Raju ...
Mere Mehboob (1963)
Cast: Ashok Kumar, Sadhana, Rajendra Kumar, Nimmi Director: H.S. Rawail Music: Naushad Lyrics: Shakeel Badayuni Capsule Review: Mere Mehboob is a love triangle set within a decadent aristocratic Muslim ambience, and is the best known example of the archaic genre known as the ‘Muslim Social.’ It is a painstakingly put together ritual of courtship filled ...
Bambai Ka Babu (1960)
Cast: Dev Anand, Suchitra Sen Director: Raj Khosla Music: S.D. Burman Lyrics: Majrooh Sultanpuri Capsule Review: Bambai Ka Babu tells the dark and forbidden story of a criminal (Dev Anand) who seeks shelter in the home of a man he murders and falls in love with the murdered man’s sister. Though mawkish in parts, Bambai ...
Anuradha (1960)
Cast: Balraj Sahni, Leela Naidu, Abhi Bhattacharya Director: Hrishikesh Mukhenee Music: Pandit Ravi Shankar Lyrics: Shailendra Capsule Review: A progressive drama, Anuradha, has stood the test of time with remarkable ease. The core of the theme—what Mallika Sherawat in Murder 44 years later described as the abject loneliness of a married woman—is splendidly intact. Leela ...
Dhool Ka Phool (1959)
Cast: Ashok Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Mala Sinha, Manmohan Krishna Director: Yash Chopra Music: N. Dutta Lyrics: Sahir Ludhianvi Capsule Review: Bollywood’s most consistently successful director Yash Chopra’s debut was a reformist drama pleading for the legitimacy of children born out of wedlock. Mala Sinha starred as a pregnant woman who is jilted by her weak ...
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