Archive for the ‘Style’ Category
Style – Cabaret Queens – Faryal
_______________ Bindu – Faryal – Helen – Jayashree & Meena Talpade Madhumati – Padma Khanna _______________ “…Believe me it isn’t a common experience having one’s bra opened by Shatrughan Sinha. It is a very, very different experience. He is simply fabulous… “The mere recounting of her beroom scenes with Shatrughan in “Heera” seemed to send ...
Style – Cabaret Queens – Bindu
_______________ Bindu – Faryal – Helen – Jayashree & Meena Talpade Madhumati – Padma Khanna _______________ Bindu is the femme fatale, that character without whom none of our films can seemingly be complete, and she generally goes hand-in-hand with Prem Chopra. She has brought a sort of effortless bitchiness to her roles – whether the ...
Style – Cabaret Queens – Helen
_______________ Bindu – Faryal – Helen – Jayashree & Meena Talpade Madhumati – Padma Khanna _______________ Never mind Cuckoo, we can take Helen. The corn complexion glows, it doesn’t seem just the pallor left by countless hours of make-up under hot lights. And she bubbles like the champagne they didn’t pour into those glasses on ...
Style – Shashikala
A pretty Sholapur-born Maharashtrian girl used to see every Indian film which came to Sholapur and, at the age of fourteen, she herself appeared on the screen. Her name was Shashikala and she landed a part in the famous Qawaali scene in “Zeenat”, when her family came to live it—Bombay. This helped her to secure ...
Style – Karan Dewan
He rode a camel to school and a train to Calcutta for his first starring assignment in “Bhakt Dhruv.” Born in Gujranwalla, West Punjab, on November 6, 1917, Dewan Karan Chopra, had always wanted to be an actor. After his work in the devotional, he came to Bombay to work in films, but failed to ...
Style – Nirupa Roy
As an artiste, Nirupa Roy hasmade a successful–transition from mythologicals to socials. Films in both categories (“Har Har Mahadev” and “Do Bigha. Zamin” are representative ones) reveal that she is equally at home in goddess roles and depictions of human ones. But there is some danger of this accomplished actress becoming “typed” and forever being ...
Style – Manhar Desai
Lady Luck, Manhar Desai insists, has to be thanked for a good deal of his success in films. Hailing from a Gujerathi Christian family of Ahmedabad, the actor’s real name is Malcolm Desai. From an early age he had a passion for acting, but his first acquaintance with the profession (he was required to double ...
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