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 …
Jewel Thief
The whole country is rocked by a series of daring jewellery heists leaving the cops at their wits’ end. The …
Jaal
The peaceful life of a Christian fisherfolk community in Goa is disrupted by the arrival of a gold smuggler from …