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Sunday, November 8th, 2009 by admin
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Charlie

‘Palat Tera dhyan kidhar hai” – it was a typical honk of the champion comic of the pre-Partition Indian cinema. Noor Mohammad Charlie made a great splash in the sea of the Indian cine kingdom, when he entered the foray with his own zany jokes and word variations, apart from his pet phrases and lingual ...

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Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Naseem Bano

It may not ring a bell with young Pakistanis, but Prechehra Naseem Bano’s name will revive septuagenarian’s nostalgic memories of subcontinental cinema’s early magical days. Few film celebrities of the Indian cinema could win popularity and fame of such unprecedented scale in the relatively short period of time that the captivatingly beautiful actress Naseem Bano ...

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Saturday, October 10th, 2009 by admin
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Dilip Kumar (b. 1922)

Dilip Kumar was one of the three top stars of the 1950s and 1960s and is currently one of the most respected seniors in the Hindi film industry. Born in Peshawar (now Pakistan) as Yusuf Khan to a family of 12 children, Kumar emerged from humble origins. While one account states that his family moved ...

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Saturday, October 10th, 2009 by admin
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Mohammed Rafi (1924-80)

One of the most versatile playback singers of Hindi cinema, Mohammed Rafi had a rich and trained voice laced with a purity that was moving. Rafi was born in Kotla Sultan Singh village and trained under musicians Khan Abdul Waheed Khan, Jeevanlal Matto, and Ghulam Ali Khan. He arrived in Bombay in 1944 and got ...

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Monday, September 28th, 2009 by admin
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Raagni

Raagni, one of the most charming film actresses of the 1940s who silently passed away on February 27, 2007, had contributed greatly to the silver screen with her inspiring beauty and mature histrionics. She was popularly known in film circles as Aahoo Chasham and as a heroine, she left a lasting impression on the minds ...

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Monday, September 28th, 2009 by admin
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Nisar Bazmi

The undisputed king of Lollywood music in the 1960s and the ’70s, the musician Nisar Bazmi breathed his last on March 22, 2007, after a career that spanned six decades. Born Syed Nisar Ahmed in Bombay, India, in 1924 to a religious family, he had to change his last name to Bazmi after he got ...

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Sunday, September 27th, 2009 by admin
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Zahoor Raja

There is something about the old guard that has wholesomeness to it. That’s not to decry the younger lot, but the old schooling taught you a lot more than what the best institutions teach you today. One of the seniors, who made a good impression on our cinema, despite relatively skimpy contribution, was Zahoor Raja, ...

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Sunday, September 27th, 2009 by admin
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Shaukat Hussain Rizvi

World is a stage. And very few characters of this stage have the right metabolism to stay and perform on it for long. But, there are those too, who stay for a short while, and perform such distinctive acts that people do not forget them for a long time. Amongst those, in the film business, ...

. Producers & Directors . Producers & Directors

Sunday, September 27th, 2009 by admin
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Rehana

Rehana took the cine-world by storm, when she first appeared on the silver screen way back in the mid-40s. After doing some unmemorable supporting roles, Rehana made her debut as a leading lady in Hum Ek Hain (1946) – a movie about national unity. Incidentally, Hum Ek Hain also marked Dev Anand’s debut. The success ...

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Sunday, September 27th, 2009 by admin
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Meena Shorey

Meena Shorey was the silver screen temptress of the 40′s and the 50′s. Once the hippest girl in the Indian movie industry, she was born in Raiwind in a small rural household. Her father lived a wayward life and used to beat his wife brutally. One of Meena’s sisters married and moved to Bombay, and ...

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