Feature Stories - Hindi Cinema
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Life In a Metro: Revisiting the album within the film
On 11 May 2007, Anurag Basu's Life...In A Metro changed the direction of his filmmaking career....
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When Rajmata Shivagami had the fortune of working with Kanti Shah
Ramya Krishnan was a part of the celebrated trashy film, Loha....
Article Bengali Hindi
Pankaj Mullick's gift to Rabindranath Tagore: Birth anniversary special
A composer, innovator, and an actor, Pankaj Mullick was treading thin ice when he dared to set poems...
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Interview: Son Kamal Kumar on how Rajshri's Tarachand Barjatya saved a distribution company
Kamal Kumar Barjatya, son of Tarachand Barjatya and MD of Rajshri Productions, reveals interesting...
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Talat Mahmood's 10 unforgettable melancholic songs
Remembering the ghazal king with 10 songs that underlined his ability to express melancholy like...
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Dangal breaks records in China, crosses Rs80 crore in opening weekend
Aamir Khan's Dangal now has the highest opening weekend collections, beating his own film, PK....
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Renowned sitar maestro Ustad Rais Khan passes away at 77
The legendary sitar maestro had been bedridden for sometime owing to age related illnesses....
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36 years of Rocky: Nargis knew she wouldn’t live to see son Sanjay Dutt's debut
Shahu Modak, a star actor of the black and white era, had predicted Nargis's death a few days of...
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From Rocky to Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai: Star kids who were launched by actor fathers
Sanjay Dutt was launched by his actor father Sunil Dutt, who turned director with Rocky (1981). On a...
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Sanjay Dutt's Kartoos and baby steps towards CGI
Director Mahesh Bhatt’s 1999 action thriller Kartoos holds the distinction of being the first...
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Best films born out of Rabindranath Tagore's stories — Birth anniversary special
Polymath, philosopher, poet, and storyteller, Rabindranath Tagore is to India what Shakespeare was 7...
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Revisiting Natir Puja, the only film directed by Rabindranath Tagore
The 1932 film was an adaptation of Tagore’s own all-woman dance drama. On his 156th birth (he...
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Bulo C Rani, the overlooked music composer — birth anniversary special
We remember the forgotten composer and singer of the 1940s and 1950s on his 97th birth anniversary...
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Dhwani – Naushad's only tryst with Malayalam cinema
Naushad Ali reigned supreme in Hindi cine music for over five decades. In 1988, he composed music of...
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Why the Ganesh aarti marks Hindi cinema's Godfather moment
With the Ganpati aarti in Sarkar 3, Ram Gopal Varma has turned to the tradition of using Ganesh as a...
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Film industry turns up to pay respects to Vinod Khanna at prayer meet
Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan and Amitabh Bachchan lead industry stalwarts at meeting...
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Why Nargis was a star — death anniversary special
Suffering from cancer, Nargis delivered one of her best performances in Satyen Bose's Raat Aur A...
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How Hrithik Roshan's Mohenjo Daro ended up being eerily similar to Baahubali
Remember the rumour about Hrithik being approached for Baahubali? Well, his 2016 epic adventure film...
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When Kishore Kumar borrowed his big brother Ashok's song from Jeevan Naiya
A look at how the song 'Koi Humdum Na Raha' originally from Jeevan Naiya links the two Ashok...
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Book Excerpt: Shubhra Gupta’s 50 Films That Changed Bollywood, 1995-2015
From Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) to Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015), film critic Shubhra’s new...