Singer-actress Sulakshana Pandit, 71, passed into the ages on November 6 after a prolonged illness. Besides her acting roles, she leaves behind some beautiful songs to remember her by.
As a uniquely multi-hyphenated writer-director-lyricist-author, Gulzar has built a reputation across multiple spheres of film-making and literary creative endeavours. Dinesh Raheja salutes the Master who turns 90 on Sunday.
Zia confessed his admiration for Mangeshkar while talking with late Indian journalist Kuldip Nayar in 1982.
The screenwriter said every 'dharma' (religion) should have its own censor board.
The second edition of the unique film festival was held recently in Ladakh.
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Theek nahi lagta, a song written by Lata Mangeshkar's favourite lyricist Gulzar, was believed to have been lost.
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The decision was taken at a flash-meeting held at the Yash Raj studios last week.
Gulzar said communal harmony is being harmed to such a level that people are not allowed to even talk with freedom.
Photographs from the music launch of Mirzya, starring Anil Kapoor's son Harshvardhan and Saiyami Kher.
President Pratibha Patil, Vice President Hamid Ansari, music director A R Rahman and noted lyricist Gulzar on Sunday watched the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire at the Rashtrapati Bhavan auditorium in New Delhi. Oscar awardee Resul Pookuty and Vikas Swarup, on whose novel Q and A the movie is based, also attended the screening. According to a Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson, the two-hour-long special screening was exclusively organised for the President.
But the icing in the cake will be the presence of its Oscar winners -- music director A R Rahman, lyricist Gulzar and sound engineer Resul Pookutty -- at the special screening.
'These days, the whole world is out there on the Net giving a lot of gaalis to the film industry.'
Mahalakshmi Iyer, Vijay Prakash and Tanvi Shah were the other three besides Sukhwinder Singh sang in Rahman's award-winning song Jai Ho. Here are their stories.
As A R Rahman and Resul Pookutty scripted history by picking up three Oscars for Slumdog Millionaire, members of the film fraternity here joined voices to applaud the enviable feat achieved by the duo.
The singer claims that his voice has been replaced by another singer in the title track of Jhoom Barabar Jhoom.
As the much-awaited hockey men's World Cup is inching closer, music maestro AR Rahman has shared the glimpse of the much-anticipated official theme song and video of the hockey tournament, slated to be held from November 28 to December 16 in Bhubaneswar.
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Overjoyed with the news of her Gulzarbhai's selection for the Dadasaheb Phalke award this year, the legendary playback singer traces her steps to her early memories of working with the veteran.
'Sounds familiar? Barring inflation, much else looks, sounds, and feels more than a bit like 1974.' 'A phenomenally popular leader, with a party of unquestioning followers, a broken Opposition, a nationalist high and an economy in free fall, crippling joblessness,' recalls Shekhar Gupta.
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'My inspiration to write songs for any film must come from the script alone. I am not writing an independent poem. What I write is drawn from the characters and their relationships,' Gulzar tells Sonil Dedhia.
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'I defy all the controversy. For me, it is meaningless. They say the students are unhappy that I have been appointed as the head of FTII. They have not seen my work so how can they be unhappy?' Gajendra Chauhan tries to justify his appointment to head the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India.
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