A surprisingly dull and clinical retelling of the years that Indian genius mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) spent at Trinity …
Swarnalata
Swarnalata was already an established heroine in Hindi cinema before she opted to migrate to Pakistan with husband Nazir, a …
Shakti Samanta
When he first arrived in Mumbai, Shakti Samanta was a lanky young man, who would follow filmmaker Phani Majumdar everywhere …
Kohinoor
By the mid 1950s, Dilip Kumar was given psychiatric advice to play lighter roles as his ‘King of Tragedy’ image …
Mahendra Kapoor
Though he had a fairly successful career as a playback singer, Mahendra Kapoor never really got his due as he …
Supermen of Malegaon
Malegaon, a small town tucked away near the heart of India geographically, is fraught with communal tension and under economic …
Nalini Jaywant
Dilip Kumar considered her easily the greatest actress he had ever worked with, citing her instinct for grasping the essence of …
Talat Mahmood
His velvet-like gentle, quivering voice made Talat Mahmood one of the all-time great playback artistes of Indian cinema, the ideal …
An Industry Is Born!
May 3, 1913. Exactly 102 years ago, a film about a righteous and noble king who always stood by his …
Mr and Mrs 55: The Stills
And here are some lovely stills from the film, courtesy Guru Dutt’s son, the late Arun Dutt…