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Mehboob Khan – The Failed Hero
In 1931, when Ardeshir Irani was planning India’s first-ever talkie, Alam Ara, he had, in fact, Mehboob in mind for the male lead. He had even got his outfits tailored. However, there was a sudden brainwave that the film needed a big name. So Master Vithal, a big star of the ‘silent’ era, was roped ...
Mehboob Khan – The Turning Point
R.G. Torney, the general manager of Imperial Film Company, took a liking to the God-fearing young man and tried to give him as many opportunities as possible. Though Mehboob had been facing the camera for three years, he was hardly noticed, not even by himself! However, a film called Shirin Khusru changed his destiny overnight. ...
Mehboob Khan – The ‘Big’ Break
In Bombay, Mehboob’s routine was to hang around the gates of the Imperial Film Company (which was to later become Jyoti Studio) in central Bombay, day after day, hoping to get past his biggest hurdle — a hefty Pathan watchman, named Behram Shah — some day. Shah tried his best to drill some sense into ...
Mehboob Khan – Early Life
It’s difficult to imagine that a cult film like Mother India, the first ever Indian film to come close to winning an Oscar, was made by a man who had no formal education and no grounding in filmmaking. But then, that was Mehboob Khan, the man who came to be identified as the Cecil B. ...
Mehboob Khan (1906 – 1964)
Unlettered and unrepentant, Mehboob’s genius lay in his ability to make exciting cinema in concurrence with his strong socialist beliefs (his banner depicted the hammer and sickle). The subliminal motif in most of his famous films was: the oppressed poor pitted against the oppressive rich — whether it was the woman (Nargis) against the zamindar ...
Andaz (1949)
Mehboob Khan’s Andaz opened the prestigious new Liberty cinema in Bombay. Nargis plays the role of Neeta, a modern woman who mixes freely with men, rides horses and wears western clothes. She seems to be falling in love with her father’s manager, Dilip Kumar, while we ignore all the signs that become so apparent on ...
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Two Women (1998):
Two Women tells the story of two school friends, intelligent and beautiful Fereshteh from ...
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My Past - Meena Kumari's Poem:
My past
My loneliness, a blind abyss
Filling my breath
Ticking in my pulse
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Nasreen in Zinda Laash (1967):
Nasreen trying to seduce Asad Bokhari in Zinda Laash (1967) - second horror film of Pakistan and...
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