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Saturday, December 11th, 2010 by admin
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Teesri Kasam (1966)

This film script is adapted from Phanishwar Nath’s short story, ‘Mare Gaye Gulfam’. Produced by the great lyricist, Shailendra, it became famous as his nemesis, as the financial strains and stresses of making the film over four years, followed by its box-office failure, led to his early death. However, it won the national award, the ...

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Monday, May 17th, 2010 by admin
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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 ...

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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 by admin
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Kaagaz ke phool (1959)

This is often said to the be the film that marked Guru Dutt’s mental decline towards suicide, as its failure at the box office led to his refusal to direct another film. Many believe that he actually directed Sahib bibi our ghulam (1961) and Chaudhvin ka chand (1960), in which he starred, but that he ...

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Monday, April 26th, 2010 by admin
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Kabhi kabhie (1976)

Yash Chopra was making Deewaar at the same time as Kabhi kabhie and was working with some of the same cast. In Kabhi kabhie, this included actors who had worked across several decades, from the veteran (Waheeda Rehman) to the very young (Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh), with some actors like Amitabh Bachchan and Raakhee ...

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Saturday, April 24th, 2010 by admin
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Kohraa (1964)

Cast: Biswajeet,Waheeda Rehman, Lalita Pawar Director: Hiren Nag Music: Hemant Kumar Lyrics: Kaifi Azmi Capsule Review: Kohraa featured the ethereal Waheeda Rehman as the mysterious rake Biswajeet’s second wife who’s haunted by his dead wife. The chilling ambience was sublimated by the producer Hemant Kumar’s vintage music. Songs like Lata Mangeshkar’s Jhoom jhoom dhalti raat ...

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Friday, April 23rd, 2010 by admin
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Mujhe Jeene Do (1963)

Cast: Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rehman Director: Moni Bhattacharya Music: Jaidev Lyrics: Sahir Ludhianvi Capsule Review: Sunil Dutt produced and played the lead in this pioneering dacoitdrama. Like Nitin Bose’s Ganga Jumna and Raj Kapoor’s Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai—the two other famous dacoit dramas of the 1960s—Mujhe Jeene Do pitches its passionate plea at ...

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Friday, April 23rd, 2010 by admin
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Guide (1966)

Cast: Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman, Leela Chitnis, Anwar Husain, Kishore Sahu Director: Vijay Anand Music: S.D. Burman Lyrics: Shailendra Capsule Review: Vijay Anand smoothly recreates R.K. Narayan’s complex and layered novel, and mixes existentialism with the song-and-dance formula. Waheeda Rehman comes to life as the capricious, defiant and enchanting Rosy, and Dev Anand is every ...

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Saturday, December 26th, 2009 by admin
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Ram Aur Shyam (1967)

The theme of identical twins has been present in many cinemas (this being one of the most basic ‘tricks’ available to cinema that was not available to live performances such as plays). Common to melodramas, it is taken to extremes in Hindi cinema, with not just identical twins (Afsana [1951], Anhonee [1952], Gol maal, Hum ...

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Saturday, September 12th, 2009 by admin
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Waheeda Rehman

Introduced to Hindi cinema by Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman is considered by the media and the contemporary film industry to be one of the most accomplished actresses and classic beauties from 1950s and 1960s Hindi cinema. Born in the southern city of Hyderabad, Rehman studied the classical dance form, Bharatnatyam and made her screen debut ...

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