The credit titles of the Guru Dutt produced and Abrar Alvi directed Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962) list three playback …
Incomplete Films: Gouri
It was to be India’s first film in CinemaScope had it been completed. Sometime around 1956, Guru Dutt had tested …
Deleted Songs: Rut Phire Par Din Humare
It was a key moment in Pyaasa (1957). The struggling poet, Vijay (Guru Dutt), gives his coat to a beggar, …
Nabendu Ghosh
Nabendu Ghosh was undoubtedly one of the greatest scriptwriters in Indian Cinema. Through his long career, Ghosh penned about 60 …
Mala Sinha
If anyone held the torch of the ‘woman’s picture’ it was Mala Sinha. She refused to play inconsequential roles opposite …
Jaal
The peaceful life of a Christian fisherfolk community in Goa is disrupted by the arrival of a gold smuggler from …
Sahir Ludhianvi
“My rebellious notes make the world think that my heart abhors the lyrics of love, that I find solace in …
Raj Khosla
Though Raj Khosla attained great success as a filmmaker and made quite a name for himself as a ‘women’s director’, …
On This Day I Thee Wed…
After a courtship and a period of engagement of almost 3 years, on May 26, 1953, film director, Guru Dutt, …
Majrooh Sultanpuri
Majrooh Sultanpuri was part of the formidable quartet of lyricists that ruled Hindi Cinema in the 1950s and early 60s, …