Posts Tagged ‘Dev Anand’

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    Rishi Kapoor : Mein ab bachcha nahin hoon!
    First part of Mera Naam Joker was heavily dependent on the acting skills of a young boy Rishi Kapoor, who had made his debut with this film. There is a scene in MNJ and any teenager actor has yet to supersede or even match the performance given by Rishi Kapoor in that particular scene. Raju, a young boy is confessing before the statue of Jesus in a church and his teacher,...
    by Rk at October 21st, 2009 at 07:10 pm
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    Phir Kabhi : Mithun’s towering performance
    Phir Kabhi targets the heart of its audience. It is all about emotions. It is a sensitive tale of Love (Kal aur Aaj). There are many moments in the film where one may realize the meaning behind the saying, crying while laughing and laughing also while crying. How both the phenomena happen together can be witnessed via few moments of this film. Film rides over the successive...
    by Rk at September 18th, 2009 at 02:09 pm
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    Hum Dono in Colour: screening in Delhi
    Guys: the colour version of Hum Dono will be screened at Siri Fort Audi II at 6 pm on 4th Sept. It will open a Dev Anand retrospective that will run through the next two days. And yes, the young old man (or, the old young man) will be present at the Hum Dono screening. So those in Delhi, you can catch the screening for free.
    by Runumi G at September 2nd, 2009 at 04:09 am
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    Kishore Kumar : Self Portrait
    iView Author: Kaustubh Pingle (Pune, India) Email:kcpingle [at] gmail [dot]com Kishore Kumar : Self Portrait Source of material : Filmfare 1956, [material is reproduced here with comments to make readers familiar with the writings of Kishore Kumar] First part of the series can be read here :> Kishore kumar : Leaves from my diary My comments : Continuing with my series...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 15th, 2009 at 06:04 pm
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    Shakti Samanta – A Musical Tribute
    ye kyaa huaa, kaise huaa, kab huaa kyon huaa, jab huaa, tab huaa chhodo, ye naa socho humne jo dekhaa thaa, sunaa thaa kyaa bataaye wo kyaa thaa sapnaa salonaa thaa khatam to honaa thaa, huaa When the end came, it was really sorrowful. But as all good things come to and end, so did the life of Shakti Samanta. The above lines are from his movie Amar Prem and they are so...
    by crazyrals at April 11th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
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    Nau Do Gyarah and how to escape boredom
    Somewhere during Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin, Aamir Khan and Pooja Bhatt end up in an abandoned barn (or was it a garage), while escaping the clutches of the private jasoos duo of Rakesh Bedi and Virendra Saxena. There’s a radio playing in the background and through the crackle you hear Kishore’s voice singing ‘Hum Hain Rahee Pyar Ke, Hum Se Kuchh Na Boliye’. Aamir...
    by Subrat at April 4th, 2009 at 03:04 am
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    Tere (Mere, Hamare) Ghar Ke Samne : Happy Diwali
    If Tere Ghar Ke Samne is not the best then it is easily among top five romantic comedies ever made in Hindi cinema. TGKS represents perfect blend of romance and comedy and neither comedy takes a shelter in buffoonery nor romance follows an exaggerated lane where overflow of tears, while showing tough conditions or a phase of separation, tries to exploit the emotions of...
    by Rk at October 28th, 2008 at 06:10 am
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    Death : An absolute truth that changes everything
    Every second of every day we are approaching towards the death. We can ignore anything and everything in the life but we can not ignore this fact that one day death will finish this cycle of our activities and we will have to go from this planet. Before that event happens death shows us its face many times in our life time through death of people living around us. It does...
    by Rk at October 7th, 2008 at 08:10 am
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    Bombai ka Babu : Suchitra sees him as her brother, Dev Anand sees her as his love interest
    If a team of Raj Khosla, Dev Anand, Jal Mistry, Rajindra Singh Bedi decides to make a film then its understood that direction will give us many thrilling moments to watch in the film and Cinematography will be of top quality. Rajindra Bedi’s story, inspite of having some inspirations from O Henry’s short story A Double Dyed Deceiver becomes unconventional...
    by Rk at September 24th, 2008 at 08:09 am
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    Rangeele Babu : Premchandian revolutionary character dares to challenge the God
    It is said and it has been said all over the world in every country and in every civilization that there is no man who does not face sorrows. There have been philosophers who have been investigating existence of God or his role in the life of any human being. Raju (Dev Anand) says in the Guide, one of the most wonderful films of the hindi cinema. “Now this question...
    by Rk at August 29th, 2008 at 06:08 am
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    Jewel Thief : Best and most stylish thriller of Hindi cinema
    THANK YOU Navketan, Dev Saab and Vijay Anand to give us Jewel Thief. Your film, Jewel Thief, denies to loose its charm even after 41 years. 41 years is a time period long enough to forget even the places where one enjoys the formative years in the childhood. Lovers of Jewel Thief exist in all the age groups. It does not matter at which age they saw it, film remains in...
    by Rk at July 30th, 2008 at 04:07 am
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    Love pervades in silence
    Some genius mind has written/said “ Shabd to shor hain tamasha hai, Maun hee prem ki bhasha hai ” [ Spoken words are nothing but exhibition of a noise, Silence is the real language of love ] A Poet has written You smiled, You did not talk to me, But I felt that I was waiting for long for this moment only Another brilliant and highly constructive...
    by Rk at July 11th, 2008 at 06:07 am
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    Ameesha, Kareena, Soha : Whose intellect is needed on screen in Hindi cinema ?
    Some time ago a famous Director who has earned his reputation as an intellectual director also, said, during a private talk with someone, while asked to give his take on two actresses, that he can not have a conversation with a certain famous actress as she is too dumb for that. Its immaterial who he was and about whom he had said but important thing is this that a wise...
    by Rk at June 5th, 2008 at 06:06 am
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    Imagine Bollywood Without Bhaiyyas & Biharis !
    He was trembling, no shivering– no, no quivering– no,no shaking !..“Moss, I am leaving ! Moley toh, idhar bahut risk ho gaya hai!! Mete, ye shahar ab rehne kay liye theek nahin!!!” I was wondering at his nervousness but wondered more about the gibberish he was mumbling..And then he expressed his real fears..He was earlier scared by Raj Thackeray’s tirade...
    by krysh at May 22nd, 2008 at 01:05 pm
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    Rab Ne Bana Dee Jodi <=> Man Pasand/My Fair Lady/Pygmalion ?
    There are speculations that Aditya Chopra’s third directorial venture Rab ne bana dee jodi (RNBDJ) may have inspirations from My Fair Lady (MFL), the 1964 musical film. Classic film MFL, was based on the musical My Fair Lady, which itself had roots in the play, Pygmalion, written by George Bernard Shaw. Basu Chaterjee had also adapted the play of Bernard Shaw in...
    by Rk at April 11th, 2008 at 08:04 am
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    Anand Aur Anand : Raju “Guide” to preach at Cannes
    Some 63-64 years ago late Chetan Anand had won the Grand Prix award at Cannes Film festival and had become the first Indian film maker to get this honour and now it’s the turn of his younger brother, the ever green star Dev Anand, to attend Cannes, where his most outstanding film “Guide” has been selected in the section of classic films. That is a good news as now...
    by Rk at April 9th, 2008 at 03:04 am
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    Dev Anand :: A Never Ending Enthusiasm, A never fading star !
    Many many congratulations to Dev Saab on his 84/85th Birthday. In his case it really does not matter which Birthday he is celebrating, he has obtained a legendary status which is not less than the image of a mythological figure. We often see him in media but different people are familiar with some different parts of a huge image of Dev Saab. He has inscribed his name in...
    by Rk at September 27th, 2007 at 07:09 am
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    Bollywood : A right word for Indian Hindi cineworld ?
    Indian hindi cinema has been given word Bollywood and it’s accepted that Amit Khanna of Plus channel had used this word first time some 25 years ago. Amitabh Bachchan does not like this word and thinks this word is just there to ridicule the hindi cine world and Salman Khan has also joined this team of people who don’t like the word “bollywood“....
    by Rk at October 12th, 2006 at 07:10 am
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