If anyone held the torch of the ‘woman’s picture’ it was Mala Sinha. She refused to play inconsequential roles opposite …
Sandhya Roy
Sandhya Roy is perhaps one of the most under-rated actresses in Bengali cinema in spite of having given some truly …
Sabitri Chatterjee
Sabitri Chatterjee ranks among the most gifted actors in the annals of Bengali cinema. Neither a classic beauty in the …
P Bhaskaran
P Bhaskaran was one of the most prolific filmmakers in Malayalam. In a career spanning more than three decades, he …
Kersi Lord
Ace musician Kersi Lord, not only imported the first synthesizer into India in 1973, but also introduced musical instruments like the …
Hema Malini
Hema Malini was the third South Indian actress after Vyjayanthimala and Waheeda Rehman to be a major Hindi film star. …
G Aravindan
G Aravindan is one of the greatest filmmakers Malayalam cinema, actually Indian cinema, has seen. An extremely important director of …
JF Madan
Jamshedji Framji Madan was one of the earliest pioneers of cinema in the Indian sub-continent. From exhibiting films in a …
Pahari Sanyal
Pahari Sanyal was without doubt one of the finest actors that both, Bengali and Hindi cinema have seen. He was …
Ismat Chughtai
The phrase Revolutionary Feminist Politics, so fashionable today within creative fiction and non-fiction in all languages, did not exist in …