The 1950s and the ’60s. The era of noir in mainstream Hindi cinema; a time of the urban crime thriller …
Dupetta
A young woman (Yasmin) brings her husband to an elderly doctor to restore her husband’s disfigured face following a horrific …
Two To Tango: MG Ramachandran & B Saroja Devi
It was the release of Nadodi Mannan on August 22nd, 1958 that first brought MG Ramachandran (MGR) and B Saroja Devi …
Take 5: Noor Jehan Across The Border
I’ve always maintained that one of the biggest losses to Indian cinema at the time of the partition in 1947 …
Borderliner
As per Wikipedia, ‘Nordic Noir’ is very basically defined as a genre of crime fiction usually written from a police …
Incomplete Films: Rano
In LV Prasad’s Raj Kapoor-Meena Kumari starrer Sharada (1957), lovers Raj Kapoor and Meena Kumari struggle with their relationship after …
Deleted Songs: Anari Anari Re
Geeta Dutt was particularly unlucky when it came to her already recorded songs being deleted from films or not being …
When Dev Anand Fought The Evil Within
It was a chance discovery I made on Facebook. Apart from the English version of Guide (1965), Dev Anand had …
Jagriti
The film is centered around a stubborn, badly behaved rich boy, Ajay (Raj Kumar Gupta). Though doted upon by his …
Delhi Crime: Season 2
The second season of Delhi Crime, currently streaming on Netflix, comes with a lot of baggage and extremely high expectations. …