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 all the villains of Hindi cinema. By hero-like I don’t…Continue Reading →
The obits call him Bollywood’s most feared villain. Not for me. To me Pran Saheb was the most hero-like of all the villains of Hindi cinema. By hero-like I don’t…Continue Reading →
The Bombay underworld, is full of stories fit to be made into movies and they have been – lots of…
A topical in context of the ongoing IPL spot fixing brouhaha. This is from one of the most fondly remembered…
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 →
Phata poster, nikle saikro hero (heroine aur villain bhi) If you follow me on Twitter, you might have noticed the…
Wasn’t Bombay Talkies supposed to be a celebration of the 100 years of Indian cinema? Then what was Karan Johar’s…
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 →
Google doodled Alam Ara, Google doodled Ray and because Google didn’t doodle the 100th anniversary of the release of the…
(This is an edited version of a post first published on April 21, 2012) In India, cinema isn’t just a…
Aamir Khan goes to great lengths to promote his films. This trend might have very well started 25 years ago when a teaser campaign prior to the announcement of Qayamat…Continue Reading →
Ramesh Sippy’s Shakti (1982) isn’t as much about the Amitabh Bachchan and Smita Patil on-screen romance, as the on-screen histrionics…
Many on-screen enchantresses have not been lucky in love and the sex-symbol of the 1970s Zeenat Aman is no exception.…