Kali Salwaar, based on the writings of Sadat Hasan Manto, marks Filmmaker Fareeda’s directorial debut. An alumnus of both the …
Pakeezah
Dancer and courtesan, Nargis (Meena Kumari), dreams of escaping her dishonourable life but she is rejected by the family of …
Nasir Hussain
If anyone could definitely say he had the winning formula on hand, it was undoubtedly filmmaker Nasir Hussain. His phenomenon …
Tell Them The Tree They Had Planted Has Now Grown
Tell Them The Tree They Had Planted Has Now Grown, a powerful film made straight from the heart, is a cinematic …
Director’s Note: Jari Mari: Of Cloth And Other Stories
Jari Mari is a sprawling slum colony adjacent to Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji international airport. Its narrow lanes house hundreds of …
Kannathil Muthamittal
So you go see the recent over-hyped, keyed up, inescapable films whose in-your-face campaigns are plastered all over your cityscape, …
Director’s Note: Kali Salwaar
Kali Salwaar, based on the writings of Saadat Hasan Manto, marks filmmaker Fareeda’s directorial debut. An alumnus of both the …
The Best of 2001
Upperstall decides to sneer at the recently concluded bunch of farcical award shows and do its own little evaluation to …
Prem Nazir
The figures are to put it mildly – staggering! Well over 500 films as leading man, over a 100 films …
Mohammed Rafi
Mohammed Rafi remains easily the most popular male playback singer Indian cinema has ever seen and he is arguably maybe …