Versatility could well be Asha Bhosle’s second name. No type of song has been beyond her vocal or emotional range …
Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi
Newspaper managing editor, Amita (Mala Sinha), and her younger sister, Sunita (Tanuja), both find themselves falling for the paper’s idealistic …
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 …
Tere Ghar Ke Samne
Two feuding millionaires, Lala Jagannath (Om Prakash) and Seth Karamchand (Harindranath Chattopadhyay), are always finding ways to be one up …
Munimji
Malati (Nirupa Roy), abandoned by her husband Ram, switches her infant with the one Ram has sired from his second …
Bahar
MV Raman, who brought Vyjayanthimala to the silver screen with the Tamil film Vazhkai (1949), remade the film as Bahar …
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, …
Kersi Lord
Ace musician Kersi Lord, not only imported the first synthesizer into India in 1973, but also introduced musical instruments like the …
When SD Burman was attacked by ‘Madrasis’!
This was an incident that came straight from the horse’s mouth. I read about it in an issue of Cinema …