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Friday, November 27th, 2009 by admin
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Nargis

Born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, as Fatima A Rashid, Nargis was introduced to films at the age of five by her mother — actress, singer, and filmmaker Jaddanbai. Nargis acted in five films as “Baby Rani,” and then starred in her first leading role at the age of 14 in Mehboob Khan’s Taqdeer (Luck). Although ...

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Friday, November 27th, 2009 by admin
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Zeenat Aman

Zeenat Aman is a former model and beauty queen who redefined the image of the heroine in Hindi cinema from a demure, virginal, ideal type to a bold, unabashed sex symbol. Born in Germany, and edu­cated at a Catholic boarding school in Panchgani — a hill resort about 170 miles from Bombay — where she ...

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Friday, November 27th, 2009 by admin
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Raj Kapoor (1924 -1988)

____________________ Back to Legends – Raj Kapoor ____________________ He turned the common man into an uncommon success. When Raj Kapoor slipped into those ankle length trousers, patched overcoat and bowler hat in his greatest classics, Awara and Shri 420, he imbued his creation, Raju, the tramp, with such lyrical passion that he tugged at the ...

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Friday, November 27th, 2009 by admin
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Rekha

Rekha has the distinction of acting in more films as a heroine – over 100 films – than any other Hindi film actress. The daughter of South Indian film stars, Gemini Ganesan and Pushpavalli, Rekha began her film career as “Baby Bhanurekha” in a Telugu film in 1966 and debuted as the lead role in ...

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Friday, November 27th, 2009 by admin
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Helen

Known as the “Golden Girl” of Hindi cinema, dancer-actress Helen raised the standards of film dance to new heights. She perfected the art of “clean” cabaret, her elegance and style lending the genre respectability. Born in Burma (now Myanmar) to a French father and Burmese mother, Helen’s family fled to India during World War II. ...

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Friday, November 27th, 2009 by admin
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Cuckoo

Cuckoo was perhaps the first of the most well known dancing queens of Indian Cinema. Her predecessors were many, including a dancer called Azurie, who it is said Cuckoo modeled herself on. But in terms of the sheer body of work and its impact, Cuckoo would have to be the first among Hindi cinema’s dancing ...

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Thursday, November 26th, 2009 by admin
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Bina Roy – Premnath

Premnath was a dashing young man, slim, smart and handsome. He was liked by cinegoers in films like Sagai, Buzdil, Naujawan, Barsat, Saqi, Dard-e-Dil, in which he appeared as a hero opposite top-ranking heroines of those days. The first movie in which he was paired with Bina Rai was Aurat (1953), a Bollywood version of ...

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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 by admin
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Motilal

“Married a 100 times, died almost twice, never born but always brought down by a parachute,” said Motilal Rajvansh, the veteran hero of Hindi cinema, on his screen career with characteristic humour. Indeed, Motilal had a glorious record as filmdom’s smartest hero. For over two decades, he reigned supreme over the hearts of swooning fans, ...

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Saturday, November 21st, 2009 by admin
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Sudha Malhotra

Sudha Malhotra was born in New Delhi in 1936, and she was discovered as a child artiste by Master Ghulam Haider (a prominent music director of the 1940s, known for combining popular ragas with Punjabi rhythm in his songs). Her first break as a playback singer came with Mila gaye nain, composed by Anil Biswas, ...

. Playback Singers

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 by admin
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Taxi Driver (1954)

Synopsis Dev Anand’s best-known ‘proletarian’ performance as a taxi driver in a story inspired by film noir. Mangal (DevAnand) rescues Mala (Kalpana Kartik) from some hoodlums. This act of chivalry leads to a series of encounters with a violent criminal gang who, later in the film, steal Mangal’s cab to commit a bank robbery. Mala, ...

. . . . Crime

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