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Stars at Home – Ashok Kumar – Quiet Retreat Of A Busy Star (1955)
Pictures accompanying this article – Pic 1 – Pic 2 – Pic 3 – Pic 4 – Pic 5 – Pic 6 Ashok Kumar House is situated in the heart of the business quarter of Bombay on the top storey of the building is the home of the star who gives it his name. Guarding ...
Mahal (1949)
Bombay Talkies Mahal is a story of ghosts, spooks, apparitions, jitters, quivers, bats and snakes. It succeeds in giving one the creeps, but through more causes than one. In the initial stage the spine tingling chill of weird horror which slowly creeps down one’s back is because of the masterly genius ace cameraman Josef Wirsching ...
Deedar (1951)
Adapting much of the K.L. Saigal type of melodrama, the tale opens with adolescents Shamu (Dilip Kumar) and childhood sweetheart Mala (Nargis). Mala’s rich father (Sapru) disapproves and when the children have an accident while horse-riding (a portent of the tragedy to come), he has Shamu and his mother evicted. The trauma kills the mother ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mamta (1966)
Cast: Ashok Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Dharmendra Director: Asit Sen Music: Roshan Lyrics: Majrooh Sultanpuri Capsule Review: Remaking his own 1963 Bengali hit Uttar Phalguni, Asit Sen does a searing sentimental pilgrimage into the anatomy of motherhood with the mythic Suchitra Sen cast as both mother and daughter. In true Mother India tradition, the mother sacrifices ...
Ashok Kumar
Ashok Kumar was one of the first stars of Indian cinema. Born in Bhagalpur, Bihar, Kumar’s given name was Kumudlal Kunjilal Ganguly. The son of a lawyer and deputy magistrate, Kumar briefly studied law in Calcutta and then joined mentor and future brother-in-law, S. Mukherji, at Bombay Talkies, initially as a lab assistant. He got ...
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