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Pramila – The first Miss India
The saga of independent India’s first-ever beauty queen came to a close on August 6 2006, when Esther Abraham, screen name Pramila, faded into an eternal dissolve. A born rebel, she walked out of her conservative Baghdadi Jewish home in Kolkata at 17 to join a theatre company. She went on to realise her real ...
Peepli [Live] – 2010
This year, I was introduced to Soviet dramatist Nikolai Erdman’s The Suicide, directed on the Islamabad-stage: the plot focused on unemployed, impoverished Semyon, who contemplates suicide only to find his small apartment flooded with faux-sympathetic visitors [the Intelligentsia, representatives of the business world, the worker class, and the like] all begging him to die for ...
Master Vithal (d. 1969)
Master Vithal was an actor who happened to be on the path of the juggernaut of Hindi cinema history. As the hero of the first Indian talkie, Alam Ara, Vithal witnessed the same force that elevated him to a permanent place in film annals, also becoming the cause for the annihilation of his career. Before ...
Ardeshir Irani (1886 – 1969)
At the height of the silent era, one man dared to think of bringing sound into Hindi films. Talkies had already been introduced in Hollywood and Ardeshir Irani realized that films were perched on the lip of change. It was not an easy task to incorporate sound equipment into cinema halls. But Irani, the kingpin ...
Chandulal Shah (1898 – 1975)
Along with New Theatres, Prabhat and Bombay Talkies, Chandulal Shah’s Ranjit Studios was one of the four great institutions of the studio era. With stars like Gohar, E Billimoria, Madhuri, Motilal, Khurshid and Saigal on its payroll, the studio’s boast was: ‘There are more stars in Ranjit than in the heavens’. Shah first won attention ...
Himanshu Rai (1896 – 1940)
If Phalke is credited with pioneering the production of films in India, Himanshu Rai is generally lauded for lending sophistication to the nascent craft. The founder of Bombay Talkies was indeed a true visionary with ideas forever fermenting in his head. The westward-leaning Rai became one of the first Indians to collaborate with European filmmakers. ...
Gope (1914 – 1957)
Beginning his career in the early 1930s, Gope Kamlani went on to become one of Hindi cinemas most popular comedians. Such was his appeal that at the height of his career, he shared credits with the films lead actors. One of nine children, Gope completed his education in Karachi (now in Pakistan). His interest in ...
Bollywood – Ajay Devgan fined Rs 100 for smoking in public in Goa
Bollywood actor Ajay Devgan will have to shell out Rs 100 as fine for smoking at a public place during the shooting of his upcoming film Golmaal 3 in Goa in May this year. “A fine notice will be issued to the actor today following a complaint filed by the Director of Health Services,” police ...
Indian Film Database – 1967
Movie Producer Director Cast Music Director Aag Naresh Kumar Naresh Kumar Firoz Khan, Mumtaz, Shyama, Achla Sachdev, Jeevan, Aruna Irani, Randhir, Madan Puri, Tuntun, Jeevan, Mohan Choti, Ram Mohan, Bipin Gupta, Amar Nath, Indira Bansal, Krishna Duggal Usha Khanna Aamne Samne Suraj Prakash Suraj Prakash Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, Prem Chopra, Madan Puri, Karan Dewan, ...
Indian Film Database – 1966
Movie Producer Director Cast Music Director Aakhri Khat Himalaya Films Chetan Anand Indrani Mukherjee, Naqi Jehan, Nana Palsikar, Bunty, Manvendra Chitnis, Maruti, Tuntun, Mohan Choti, Rajesh Khanna Khaiyyaam Aasra Seven Art Pictures Satyen Bose Jagdeep, Ameeta, Bela Bose, Biswajeet, Mala Sinha, Nirupa Roy, Parveen Paul, Balraj Sahni, David Abraham Laxmikant-Pyarelal Afsana Devi Movies Brij Helen, ...
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Waqt (1965):
Waqt was a landmark in many ways: it is a multi-starrer with four main heroes and two major...
Lollywood - Here goes Veena again:
You instinctively knew that as soon as Mohammad Asif’s name came up in the spot-fixing scam duri...
Madan Theatres: Giant distribution corporation and studio which dominated India's silent cinema. Built by Jamshedji ...
Waheed Murad - Rani:
Getting favorable review from the very first movie he did, Waheed Murad had little time to think...- Pakistani Film Database - 1975:
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