For four decades, his voice united millions of Indians for an hour every Wednesday as he brought Hindi cinema's greatest songs in an unparalleled radio broadcast. Illustration: Dominic......
Monica Sindhwani, whose family has lived in Myanmar for generations, left Rangoon for India at 20.Married to a retired Indian Army officer, she relives her memories of the pagodas, the greenery and......
Take 1: Remember all those Amitabh Bachchan movies where the perpetual mother Nirupa Roy would be shedding voluminous tears as her husband is in the hospital, there is no money to feed the children......
Jitendra KothariThe announcement of Nirupa Roy's death severs one of our last remaining links to the Golden Age Of Bollywood.For many, Nirupa Roy was almost a generic term for 'screen mother.' This......
Actress Nirupa Roy passed away on Wednesday night following a cardiac arrest, film industry sources said on Thursday. She was 73.Bestknown as the mother of Hindi movieheroes in the 1970s, sheacted......
'When you are a pioneer and someone who's put on a pedestal, but then the pedestal gets dusty, people don't look at the statue anymore.''They would say, 'Yes, yes, of course I know Bimal Roy. He......
IMAGE: Manoj Kumar in Shaheed. Shaheed was Manoj Kumar's first patriotic success. This small-budget black-and-white film had enormous impact, besides laying the foundation for Manoj's famous......
'We didn't create the Angry Young Man persona for Amitabh Bachchan.''We created the Vijay persona and then Amitabh Bachchan fitted into it.' IMAGE: Amitabh Bachchan in Deewaar. Yash Chopra's......