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C.I.D. (1956)
This is one of Hindi cinema’s few experiments with film noir. It engages with the genre fully, down to its rainy night street scenes and relentless emphasis on icons of modernity, such as telephones, cars, guns, newspapers and houses with sliding panels, trapdoors, etc. Inder Raj Anand took elements of film noir and mixed them ...
Cuckoo, Shamshad Begum and Shanker Jaikishen
This is the only SOLO song sung by Shamshad Begum for Shanker-Jaikishan. Shanker Jaikishan used Shamshad’s voice only 3 times during their long careers. The reason for using her voice sparingly in their compositions is provided by Shamshad and her daughter Usha below… “Shamshad Begum remembers the time she came in contact with Raj Kapoor. ...
Shyam and Naseem in Shabistan (1951)
Shabistan (1951) songs were composed by two music directors – Madan Mohan and C. Ramchandra. This particular song was composed by C. Ramchandra and sung by Geeta Dutt and Talat Mahmood. C. Ramchandra used Geeta’s voice sparingly, but this film has 3 Talat-Geeta duets!. Shabistan (1951) is famous for his hero Shyam because he fell ...
Indian Film Database – 1960
Note: This database includes Hindi/Urdu Films only. Movie Name Producer Director Cast Music Director Aai Phirse Bahar National Production A. Bhim Singh Shivaji Ganeshan, Ragini, Raja Sulochana, Padmini Vedpal Sharma Aanchal Panchdeep Chitra Vasant Joglekar Dhumal, Nirupa Roy, Nanda, Suresh, Seema, Sudesh Kumar, Iftekhar, Ashok Kumar, Om Prakash, Lalita Pawar C. Ramchandra Abdulla Amrit Singh ...
Yash Chopra
Yash Chopra is, without doubt, one of the most significant directors to emerge from the Hindi popular cinema—or, as it is now more commonly known,”Bollywood.” Chopra began his career in the late 1950s making the romantic Dhool Ka Phool (1959) (Blossom of Dust), and throughout the 1960s made a number of impressive features such as ...
Mira Nair
Mira Nair came to international prominence with a successful first feature Salaam Bombay! (1988). She had begun her career as a documentary maker and brought the immediacy of that genre to her debut, which focused on a group of street kids forging a meager existence on the streets of Mumbai. The film’s success meant Nair ...
Subhash Ghai
Indian native Subhash Ghai began his film career after completing his education at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, Maharashtra. His first picture to receive critical recognition was Kalicharan (1976). It told the story of a police officer who goes undercover to investigate a socially connected individual with ties to crime; the ...
Shyam Benegal
At the start of his career, when his films Ankur (1974) (The Seedling) and Manthan (1976) (The Churning) were released to international acclaim, Shyam Benegal was widely seen as Indian cinema’s heir apparent to Satyajit Ray. Although his sympathies are essentially leftist, Benegal has never adopted the Marxist perspective of Mrinal Sen or Ritwik Ghatak; ...
Indian Film Database – 1959
Previous 1940s – 1950 – 1951 – 1952 – 1953 – 1954 1955 – 1956 – 1957 – 1958 – 1959 – Next 1960s Note: This database includes Hindi/Urdu Films only. Movie Name Producer Director Cast Music Director Anari L. B. Films Hrishikesh Mukherjee Nutan, Lalita Pawar, Motilal, Shobha Khote, Mukri, Asim Kumar, Nana Palsikar, ...
Indian Film Database – 1958
Previous 1940s – 1950 – 1951 – 1952 – 1953 – 1954 1955 – 1956 – 1957 – 1958 – 1959 – Next 1960s Note: This database includes Hindi/Urdu Films only. Movie Producer Director Cast Music Director 12 O Clock Sippy Films Pramod Chakraborty Guru Dutt, Shashikala, Johnny Walker, Tuntun, Helen, Hari Shivdasani, Rajen Kapoor, ...
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Bollywood - Year by Year - 1897: Important Events
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Aina (1977):
Aina, a musical love story with a tinge of social comment, created history for having the l...
Prithviraj Kapoor:
He was indubitably the most handsome hero of the pre-independence period. Imposingly tall and mo...
Nina:
Nina was introduced by director W.Z. Ahmed in Ek Raat (1942) as the 'mysterious Nina' in a count...
Maachis (1996):
Cast: Tabu, Chandrachur Singh, Om Puri, Jimmy Shergil, Suneel Sinha, Ravi Gossain
Director: G...
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