Lyricist Sameer recalls his working experience with the iconic filmmaker.
As means of transport or metaphor, the romance of trains is unmistakable in Hindi cinema.
The popularity of the fashion trends the movie established saw the Filmfare awards introduce a new category for costume design, Manish Malhotra being the first recipient.
Meet the Shaandaar siblings of Bollywood.
Sukanya Verma offers an onscreen recap of this onscreen wild child.
'Basuda hardly spoke, but he had a sense of humour and that showed in his films.'
'These days you are the main inspiration for a lot of young film-makers. They are mimicking your films.'
'He loved reality in all his films.' 'He would say films are made for the common man and they should feel the realness while watching it.'
'Dharam sir is so chilled; he is like a buddy.' 'I am scared of Sunny sir.' 'With Bobby sir, I can talk anything.'
'Basuda welcomed viewers into a world that was instantly familiar and comfortable,' observes Sukanya Verma.
From being siblings in one film to sweetheart in the other, these actors have done it all.
'Khaike Paan Banarasiwala doesn't sound like a Hindi song,' Kishore Kumar said. 'I don't think I can sing this song.' We pleaded with him. Finally, he relented on one condition...
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'When I was going through a bad phase, my fans would ask why I wasn't working.' 'I didn't have anything to say since no one was offering me work.'
Do you know this giant?
Ghayal Once Again starts out wobbly but gains substantial momentum till interval point, only to go completely haywire in its latter half, writes Sukanya Verma.
Sukanya Verma looks at the debutants of that year and how they've fared since.
'I couldn't understand why people didn't want to take me in a film or why I was offered the roles that I got.'
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