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Ashok Kumar with Suraiya
Bollywood Soumyadip ChoudhuryNovember 28, 2013 0

Et tu, Dadamoni? How Ashok Kumar fell from grace in Suraiya’s eyes

There are a lot of distractions while reading eBooks on the phone and Twitter is one. As I was swiping through the pages of Raju Bharatan’s A Journey Down Melody…Continue Reading →

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Why Govind Nihalani had to be given police protection

Govind Nihalani faced threats from Hindu right-wing groups for making ‘Tamas’ (1987) and had to be given police protection.

Soumyadip Choudhury 0November 8, 2013
At Rs 100/issue buy e-versions of Filmfare magazine from 60 years ago
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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…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0November 7, 2013
Ad from 1982: Pan Parag with Jalal Agha and Kalpana Iyer
Advertising Soumyadip ChoudhuryAugust 22, 2013 1

Ad from 1982: Pan Parag with Jalal Agha and Kalpana Iyer (and why I can’t ever forget Jalal’s name)

It has happened to the best of quizzards and I was far from being anywhere close to the best. The year was 2000 and the place – a packed auditorium…Continue Reading →

Download for free: 39 HarperCollins India ebooks on Google Play
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Download for free: 40 HarperCollins India ebooks on Google Play

Disclosure: I am an ebook evangelist. Update 2: As expected, Google and HarperCollins India seems to have been alerted of…

Soumyadip Choudhury 34August 5, 2013
Childhood and first wedding photos of Kishore Kumar
Bollywood

Kishore Kumar: Childhood and first wedding photos

Who is the greatest playback singer of Hindi cinema? The debate was raging from much before I was born (and…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0August 4, 2013
Milkha misses bronze medal by split second
Bollywood Soumyadip ChoudhuryJuly 21, 2013 2

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag: The actual newspaper headlines in September 1960 were quite different

Indians would have surely been disappointed by Milkha Singh’s legendary defeat in the 400 metres final at the 1960 Rome Olympics, but did the disappointment turn into actual anger as…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
Pran (1920-2013), a hero of a villain - Unofficial Google doodle
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Pran (1920-2013) – a hero of a villain: Unofficial Google doodle

The obits call him Bollywood’s most feared villain. Not for me. To me Pran Saheb was the most hero-like of…

Soumyadip Choudhury 1July 13, 2013
Varadarajan Mudaliar, the man who inspired Nayagan and Dayavan, on the cover of Illustrated Weekly of India
Bollywood Soumyadip ChoudhuryJune 9, 2013 2

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 them. One of these films unfailingly finds a place in…Continue Reading →

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Chamko – Fixes all spots

A topical in context of the ongoing IPL spot fixing brouhaha. This is from one of the most fondly remembered…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0May 21, 2013
Inside the original Bombay Talkies (photograph from 1942)
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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…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0May 15, 2013

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