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Suchitra Sen
Suchitra Sen may not have become the legend that she is in Bengali cinema, but she brought to Hindi filmdom grace, subtlety, and understatement. Though she had an all-too-brief career in Hindi film industry, the few films that she acted in are all remembered for her outstanding performance. Born Roma Sen, Suchitra Sen’s first film ...
K.N. Singh
With his subtle, underplayed performances, Krishna Niranjan Singh gave the stereotypical villain of Hindi cinema a new dimension. He replaced histrionics with style and sophistication — the raise of an eyebrow and a piercing look were all Singh employed — and imparted to his characters a dignity never before given to screen villains. Born in ...
Uma Devi (Tun Tun)
Tun Tun. The name conjures up the image of a roly-poly, funny woman. She was christened thus by none other than Dilip Kumar. She was working with the thespian in her first film Babul which had Nargis in the romantic lead. And the impact that she made with her debut was so “heavy” that Tun ...
Manmohan Desai
In Mard, Dara Singh matched his strength with a plane! In Saccha Jhootha, Mumtaz took a truth pill and spilled the beans! In Amar Akbar Anthony, three sons donated blood to their mother – simultaneously! In director Manmohan Desai’s world, anything could happen – and did. Implausibilities galloped by before you were given a chance ...
Amjad Khan
He had a will to kill, and malpractice had made him perfect. When Gabbar Singh’s beady eyes settled on his beaten-up henchmen and boomed `Kitney aadmi the?’ (How many men were they?), a palpable ripple of precognition ran through the audience. When he perversely played a cat-and-mouse game with his stooges, first lulling them with ...
R.D. Burman
With ‘Dum maro dum’, the seminal rock number from Hare Rama Hare Krishna (’71), Rahul Dev Burman initiated the pop blitzkrieg of Hindi film music. But even as Burman provoked a sonic revolution, he stunned the audiences by composing, in the same year, a classical gem like `Raina beeti jaaye’ for Amar Prem (’71). Rahul’s ...
Premnath
He was the scariest screen villain because he could look completely amoral. An ex-army man, Premnath’s energetic performance as a callous philanderer in brother-in-law, Raj Kapoor’s Barsaat (’49) made him a star. Charged by success, the teetotaller, vegetarian, non-smoker, was engulfed with “a desire to indulge in vices”. Soon he had made a career out ...
Smita Patel
An emotional Chernobyl who let every radioactive emotion reach out and scald the viewer, Smita was easily the most intense of our heroines. When she funnelled that dark, feral intensity into Bhumika or Mirch Masala, she was on par with the best in the world. When she tried the balancing act with Namak Halal, she ...
Sharmila Tagore
Sharmila’s supreme achievement lies in her being that rare heroine who triumphantly criss-crossed image boundaries. From being Bengal’s most ogled export who stirred up both the hormones of a generation as well as a hornet’s nest when she dropped her clothes, she next shocked us with what she ‘was’ wearing — floor-grazing sarees! Being Satyajit ...
Mumtaz
Mumtaz realised an impossible dream. In an industry notorious for its nonegalitarianism, she was that rare actress who rose from non-featured roles to become the most saleable actress of the early 70s, through sheer charm, sunny good humour and fiesty sexuality. Though Mumtaz, with her youth and jaunty insouciance, very obviously fit into the image ...
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Rozina:
Rozina’s very name illicit strange ambiguity. Was the name and career posited for top heroine do...
Guru Dutt:
Suffused with the dark poetry of the death wish, Dutt's classics were nihilistic, self-portraits...
Bollywood - Zeenat Aman lost 12 kgs for ‘Dunno Y…:
Zeenat Aman, glamour icon of 1970s and 1980s, will be seen on the big screen in ‘Dunno Y… Na Jaa...
Bollywood - Year by Year - 1962: Important Events
Meena Kumari garners all the three Best Actress nominations for the Filmfare Bes...
Sassi (1954):
Produced in 1954, Sassi - a love legend from Balochistan and Sindh - was a big budget movie and ...
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