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The curious case of star sons Updated: Updated: March 05, 2021 12:08 IST The ones who got the best of genes and launches but failed to make a mark Share Article Rajiv Kapoor in Ram Teri Ganga Maili   The ones who got the best of genes and launches but failed to make a mark The millennials, who love to hashtag nepotism each time a scion of a film family gets a challenging role at the cost of a grass-root actor, often forget that a generation earlier people used to wait for their favourite star...

Poster of Kissa Kursi Ka In a longish feature for Film Comment (May-June 1980), American journalist Elliott Stein wrote about the forays made by Indian film personalities into politics. “In no country are cinema and politics more closely intertwined,” he noted. Some of the events, he noted while covering Filmotsav ’80, a film festival held in Bangalore (now Bengaluru), were M.G.R becoming the chief minister of Tamil Nadu in 1977, Dilip Kumar being appointed the sheriff of Bombay (now M...

Screenwriter and author Riva Razdan holds forth on her debut novel ‘Arzu’, a coming-of-age story First-time author Riva Razdan’s protagonist Arzu (the Urdu name means hope and love) is uncertain about her future, after being dumped by her long-time boyfriend and trying to evade the society circles of Bombay in 1991. A media baron’s daughter, she nurtures no dream of journalism, until she finds herself drawn to it in New York. Arzu (Hachette India) is a coming-of-age story of the prota...

Opinion | A brief history of getting high in India Dev Anands character tries to moralize a group of stoner hippies, including his sister played by Zeenat Aman, in Haré Rama Haré Krishna. Share Via Read Full Story Before her interrogation by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) last week, Deepika Padukone’s primary link with drugs in the public’s mind was a brief appearance in the decade-old film Dum Maaro Dum. Padukone danced to a number which sampled and mangled a justly famous tune comp...

All about late actor and director Vijay Anand by Devesh Sharma | February 19, 2021, 22:21 IST Vijay Anand was born on January 22, 1934 in Gurdaspur, Punjab and was the youngest of the three Anand brothers. His elder brothers were director Chetan Anand and actor Dev Anand. Though Vijay, affectionately known as Goldie, some say because of his curly hair,  is known today as a director, he actually started his career as an actor in 1955 in a family drama called Joru Ka Bhai (1955), directed by b...

In 1991, Maniben was brought to the Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation by an elderly gentleman. She’d been sitting on the road with two children, with the younger one having passed away in her arms. Her mental illness had numbed her senses to the point that she had neglected to fulfill the child’s feeding needs. The smell of the putrefying body of the child drew passersby, including the elderly gentleman, who brought her into the centre. This was the first case of fostering a mother and chi...

Dev Anand and Kalpana Kartik in Nau Do Gyarah (1957) | Navketan Films Goldie began reading his script. The script was written with the minutest detail in mind and proved that the script writer had a deep understanding of the filmmaking process. This was not a script written only for the writer, but also for the director. Goldie completed his reading, but Dev Anand didn’t react at all. The moment they reached their usual place of stay, Hotel Fredrick, Dev booked a trunk cal...

URL copied Madhubala Birth Anniversary: Dev Anand was bemused by actresses giggles Madhubala was considered as the screen goddess during her era, her on-screen presence captivated millions of hearts. People still remember her vivacious energy and impish charm. Madhubala was born on 14th February 1933 in Delhi to Ataullah Khan and Ayesha Begum. Madhubala started her career at the tender age of 9 years.  Dev Anand who worked with Madhubala in 8 movies was bemused by her giggles. In h...

Waheeda Rehman birthday special: The face that could launch a thousand ships A very expressive actress with exceptional dancing skills, Waheeda always left an ineradicable impression on the minds of the cine-goers Had Christopher Marlowe been alive today, instead of referring to Helen of Troy, he’d have referred to Waheeda Rehman and exclaimed with euphoric joy, ‘This is the face that can launch a thousand ships and aircraft!’ Jokes aside, the grace, elegance, style and acting sk...

Waheeda Rehman was born on February 03, 1938, in a Dakhini Muslim family in Tamil Nadu. She started off her filmy career with South Indian films; her first one being a 1955 Telugu film Rojulu Marayi. Waheeda Rehman never wanted to become an actress, however, was deeply interested in dancing and becoming a doctor. Waheeda Rehman was discovered in Bollywood by chance by Guru Dutt. Veteran actor Guru Dutt once attended the premiere of a Telugu movie in Hyderabad, in which, Waheeda Rehman was the...