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iView Author: Ratnakar Sadasyula (Bhubaneshwar, India)

Email: ratnakar.techie [at] gmail [dot] com

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Kudrat(1981)- A Tale of Reincarnation
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Among the Anand brothers, Chetan Anand had his own distinct identity. Not a flamboyant superstar like Dev nor a very popular director like Vijay , Chetan neverthless managed to carve out his own distinctive identity. His very first debut as a director was with an offbeat movie called Neecha Nagar( 1946) scripted by K.A.Abbas. In 1954 he directed brother Dev in a noirish crime flick Taxi Driver, which also had some great songs, following it up with Funtoosh in 1956 kind of a black comedy. He also came up with one of the best Indian war movies, in Haqeeqat(1964) featuring an ensemble cast of Balraj Sahni, Dharmendra, Sanjay Khan, Jayant, Vijay Anand and Priya Rajvansh. Heer Ranjha in …

First thing first, KHUSHBOO is a PERIOD film, based upon the story of Sharat Chandra Chatterjee. So no new definitions can be imposed on the characterisation/s. It is set in an old time and hence has to be seen in that manner only.

Once selected a story, the thing which matters is the fact how convincingly a director has shown his chosen story. Story may not look convincing in a period film because times are changed but good directors have that skill where they keep grip on the visual story telling factor and audiences are soaked deeply in to the visual watching of the film and whether story is feasible in the present circumstances or not, ceases to matter for audiences.

Practices like Childhood marriages or fixing the marriages for children are not in the fashion now a days but this absence can not stop audience to enjoy the films …

There have been many good female singers in the hindi cinema right from the days of Noorjahan and Suraiya. Geeta Dutt, Suman Kalyanpur and Sudha Malhotra all gave good and hit songs and their songs were able to compete with the songs of any good female singers active in those years. They all have many songs where question of comparison with other singers does not arise and listener is fully satisfied with their singing only. They have got many songs of their own.

Even it is hard to imagine that any other female singer could have sung Afsana Likh Rahee hoon dil e bekarar ka (Dard 1947), better than the Uma Devi, who later became famous in her new incarnation of Tun Tun-the famous female comedian.

Inspite of the fact that so many good female singers always remained active in …

Just to remember Sanjeev Kumar and to celebrate his 70th birth anniversary.
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Who does not know that Sanjeev Kumar was a very good actor? Who does not admit that he was a versatile actor?

He did many films which could be classified as mile stones in their respective genres. He played very tough roles with a competent ease. Nothing looked tough once he accepted a role. He made it so easy that role seemed tailor made for him. Exception can be his role of Maznu in Love and God but that film took almost ages in completion and it can/should not be taken as an example.

Films, where he has played deftly a strong character, are many and films, came out from his union with Gulzaar saab, are well known and praised alike both by critics and audiences but apart from these highly acclaimed films he has done many light and regular …

As informed in the post Director is like a God walking on earth : Shyam Benegal a new series “Initial Steps” is started with this interview of Director Ashutosh Gowarikar.

Thanks a lot to Ajay Brahmatmaj who provided his detailed Interview with
Ashutosh Gowarikar to PFC.

Here is the first part of the interview.

From now onwards Ajay Bramatmaj will be represented by AB and Ashutosh Gowarikar by AG.

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[Following is the translation of the Hindi Interview and may not do full justice to the original interview so to read the exact sayings of Ashutosh Gowarikar, one should go through the original interview. This is simply a trial to expose the interview to those readers who can not read Hindi]
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AB: Where you spent your childhood. You belong to Mumbai or came here from outside. When you were introduced …