Radha (Suchitra Sen) is a nurse who works in a psycho-analytic clinic in Calcutta. She is a favourite of the …
Dilip Kumar: Hero Of Heroes
After the extremely successful Bachchan: Back To The Beginning retrospective on Amitabh Bachchan turning 80 in October this year, the …
Chup
Chup (2022), directed by R Balki, is an unusual crime thriller wherein a serial killer is on a mission to kill …
Incomplete Films: Raaz
It was to feature Waheeda Rehman in her first ever double role. And also mark Rahul Dev Burman’s debut as …
Book Review: Conversations With Waheeda Rehman
“Bound scripts were uncommon in the early days…. Many times, the scene was given to us on the day of …
Of Awards And Recipients: The Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 2018
So, the 65th National Film Awards were announced today for the best of Indian cinema in 2017. On one level, …
Ankhon Hi Ankhon Mein With Shakila…
Strangely, this was a piece I never got around to writing and I don’t really know why. It was, after …
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, …
An Indian Elvis In Bollywood!
In one of his rare forays into comedy, Sunil Dutt played Waheeda Rehman’s suitor in Ek Phool Char Kante (1960), …
Arshinagar
“A Musical Romance based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet” is the tagline on every poster of Aparna Sen’s Arshinagar …