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Melodies that stayed on in the mind and memory are too few and far between. Except the ones that do make an impression are definitely worth celebrating for their refreshing style and substance.
'When entering an industry like Bollywood, every actor hopes for a starmaker... My starmaker was Dev saab.'
Veteran actor Junior Mehmood, who was battling with stage four cancer passed away in Mumbai on Friday.
In these pandemic stricken, music bereft times, what can be more joyous than a playlist of 25 golden melodies?
You know the celebrated Raksha Bandhan songs. Subhash K Jha lists the ones you don't.
Zeenat Aman shares pictures from Shammi Kapoor's directorial debut Manoranjan where she played a sex worker, Nisha and spoke in detail about how the moral police had a field day because of her flirtatious and sexy outfits in the film.
Today's Hindi film mothers are younger, trendier, more mischievous. But, truth be told, says Dinesh Raheja, I still do miss sometimes the comforting presence of the trad mother.
There's no love like the love for a sibling, and Bollywood sure does agree, says Sukanya Verma.
There's no love like the love for a sibling, and Bollywood sure does agree, says Sukanya Verma.
Sukanya Verma looks at the wide-eyed dolly's presence in our movies.
Just how much do *you* know about Lataji?
Joginder Tuteja looks at recent films exploring the drug culture.
Joginder Tuteja looks at how well recent films highlighting sibling love have done at the box office.
'As soon as the plane touched down and we emerged, barricades came down and his fans rushed towards us.' 'Then, before my astonished eyes, they had lifted him up and he was being passed along over the heads of people.' 'It was an incredible sight!'
Ram Gopal Varma is 60 today, April 7. Subhash K Jha plots the once brilliant film-maker's declining movies graph.
'Madhuri is the best dancer in the world.' 'Shahid is too good!' 'Hrithik is the best in the industry.'
Guru Pourina examines human relationships with greater honesty and with a better hold on reality than its big budget Bollywood counterparts, feels Paloma Sharma.
From being siblings in one film to sweetheart in the other, these actors have done it all.
Sukanya Verma remembers the Boss in 30 of his underrated, overlooked gems in Hindi film music.
Bhupinder's magical legacy lives on in the musical masterpieces he left behind.
Sukanya Verma presents a DDLJ special quiz to test your knowledge about one of Hindi cinema's most successful films of all time.
The city has lost its favourite son, A P J Abdul Kalam. But his his legacy will live on forever.
Love In Bombay is a piece of history, a fragment of a time that was. Letting us gaze at it is a great idea. Expecting it to compete with films shot six months ago, on the other hand, is dead wrong, writes Raja Sen.
Gems you can enjoy from the time he was at his handsome and magnetic best.
Subhash K Jha remembers the flamboyant star, 12 years after he passed away.
Son Suneil Anand talks about his famous father, and their life together.
Film music flourished in the 1970s. Some old masters did some great work, but it was also the decade of new composers.
Varsha Bhosle salutes that effervescent icon of Indian cinema, Dev Anand.
'His son had become a composer after all, and one now chased by producers. But while finding peace in one quarter, he had lost it in another. Jet was not a home any more. The room across his was empty, there were no sounds floating through the door.' The world, in the eyes of the Burmans.
'Almost 60 per cent of 2,000 songs had references to drugs and violence.'
She sung a song for every mood, every situation. Sukanya Verma dives into Asha Bhosle's magnificent repertoire and pulls out gems on her 85th birthday.
Poor governance and mediocre short-sighted politics are destroying the paradise that Goa was as its environment, water table, culture and way of life is drastically threatened by tourism and migration, points out Ramesh Menon.
'What can I do for my India except make films that showcase it's greatness to the world, which touch on national issues and arouse the feeling of patriotism?'
Much, much, much before Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani fussed over What Jhumka, Asha Bhosle trilled in her alluring voice and teased us with tantalising details about the events leading to her precious Jhumka's loss. Sukanya Verma celebrates the singing legend who turns 90 on September 8.
If Kishore Kumar were alive today, he would have turned 90 on August 4.
The Ambedkar-Periyar Study Circle explains their side of the story which saw the IIT-Madras student body being de-recognized for violation of code of conduct and misuse of privileges.
'Asked which Dilip Kumar films were among her favourites, she said she had seen not a single movie of his until that time. This became a sensational issue. She did not mean to offend Dilip Kumar. There was not a bone of diplomacy in her and she never acquired that calculating attitude even at the cost of some of the roles that she would eventually lose.'
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