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Tag: 100 years of indian cinema

Cutting the Chai celebrates a century of Indian cinema. While the celebrations might have ended at most places on May 3, 2013, it has only started here.

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Interval in a cinema hall screening a Bollywood film in the 1970s
Bollywood Soumyadip ChoudhuryJanuary 29, 2014 0

Watch: Interval at a cinema hall in the 1970s screening a Hindi film

Now that multiplexes (and piracy) have altered our movie watching experience for good, ever wondered what it was like inside a theatre back in the heydays of the single-screen theatres?…Continue Reading →

Filmfare magazine cover dated April 2, 1954 featuring the first Filmfare Award winners
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Filmfare magazine cover dated April 2, 1954 featuring the first Filmfare Award winners

60 years ago on Sunday, March 31, 1954 the first Filmfare Awards ceremony (for films released in 1952-53) was held…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0January 26, 2014
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Happy birthday, Fearless Nadia – the original Hunterwali

January 8, is Mary Evans’ (later Mary Evans Wadia) 106th birth anniversary. She, who we better know as Fearless Nadia,…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0January 8, 2014
At Rs 100/issue buy e-versions of Filmfare magazine from 60 years ago
Bollywood Soumyadip ChoudhuryNovember 7, 2013 0

At Rs 100/issue buy e-versions of Filmfare magazine from 60 years ago

Update: Filmfare seems to have removed its magazines from sale on Magzter. As regular readers of this blog (if there are any) would know, I have a thing for vintage…Continue Reading →

100 years of Indian cinema - India Post's 50 commemorative stamps
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100 Years of Indian Cinema: India Post’s 50 commemorative stamps

[This post is part of the 100 Years of Indian Cinema celebrations on Cutting the Chai] In May this year…

Soumyadip Choudhury 1July 18, 2013
Varadarajan Mudaliar, the man who inspired Nayagan and Dayavan, on the cover of Illustrated Weekly of India
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Illustrated Weekly cover: Varadarajan ‘Nayagan’ Mudaliar, the ‘most feared man in Bombay’

The Bombay underworld, is full of stories fit to be made into movies and they have been – lots of…

Soumyadip Choudhury 2June 9, 2013
Inside the original Bombay Talkies (photograph from 1942)
Bollywood Soumyadip ChoudhuryMay 15, 2013 0

Inside the original Bombay Talkies (photograph from 1942)

The 2013 movie Bombay Talkies couldn’t live up to the standards set by the original Bombay Talkies, the film studio founded by Himanshu Rai in 1934, at the then remote…Continue Reading →

100 years of Indian cinema: The big Bollywood poster collage
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100 years of Indian cinema: The big Bollywood poster collage

Phata poster, nikle saikro hero (heroine aur villain bhi) If you follow me on Twitter, you might have noticed the…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0May 14, 2013
Bombay Talkies: Only Anurag Kashyap's Murabba gets the taste right
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Bombay Talkies: Only Anurag Kashyap’s Murabba gets the taste right

Wasn’t Bombay Talkies supposed to be a celebration of the 100 years of Indian cinema? Then what was Karan Johar’s…

Soumyadip Choudhury 1May 13, 2013
Meet the original Revolver Rani from 1971 - Vijayalalitha
Videos Soumyadip ChoudhuryMay 6, 2013 0

Meet the original Revolver Rani from 1971 – Vijayalalitha

Kangana Ranaut is playing the title role of Revolver Rani in Sai Kabir’s forthcoming film co-produced by Tigmanshu Dhulia and Rahul Mittra. The film also stars Vir Das. But the…Continue Reading →

100 years of Indian cinema: Unofficial 'Raja Harishchandra' Google doodle
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100 years of Indian cinema: ‘Raja Harishchandra’ unofficial Google doodle

Google doodled Alam Ara, Google doodled Ray and because Google didn’t doodle the 100th anniversary of the release of the…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0May 3, 2013
Cinema century: 3 May, 1913 - Raja Harishchandra and the beginnings of a national obsession
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Cinema century: May 3, 1913 – Raja Harishchandra and the beginnings of a national obsession

(This is an edited version of a post first published on April 21, 2012, that was also cross-posted on my…

Soumyadip Choudhury 2May 3, 2013

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