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“Cinema wo hai jiska ticket black mein bikta hai”.

Above mentioned catchy line was said by Javed Akhtar Saab, who has been one of the most successful screenplay writers of commercial Hindi cinema.

Following can also be said in the respect of Cinema.

”Cinema wo hai jo baar baar dekha jata hai”.

Tickets are sold in black or not, it is immaterial but a film should inspire an audience to come and see it multiple times.

We can add that ideally a large number of people, a varied audience spread in different parts of country if not world, should see a film and that is the real success of a film.

A good cinema compels audience to go and watch it again and again and each and every time he enjoys the watching.

” A large number of people are standing outside the cinema halls when a film is released”. …

Have you ever woken up, from a deep slumber at the dead of the night, thanks to sound of the whistle or the “thak, thak” of the wooden stick of the locality / housing society guard? This was the topic Jaideep Varma dealt with in one of his write ups for a well-known English magazine some years ago. And in it lay the germ of an idea for a film, a film for which – in his own words – he had approached “20-25” producers, all unsuccessfully. That was the reason it took him several years to make Hulla (Uproar). The producers rejected his idea because some of them found it “flippant, too small a subject”, some wanted a star to be the protagonist, as against Jaideep’s choice of Sushant Singh in the role of a stockbroker who wants to sleep peacefully at night, and some said it the end …

9 july ko Guru Dutt ka janmadin hai.mumkin hai patra-patrikaon,news chaneels aur filmy channels par unke sambandh mein apne-apne anaz mein har koi kuchh na kuchh likhe,bole aur bataye.aaj unhen aur unki filmon ko yaad karte hue sabhi ek hi raag alap rahe honge.bagair unki films dekhe,samjhe aur niji taur par aatmasaat kiye hi har koi tarif kar raha hota hai.waqt aa gaya hai ki ham Guru Dutt ka sahi moolyankan karen aur aaj ke sandarbh mein dekhen ki woh kitne prasangik aur mahtvapoorn hain.

main yahan unka likha ek lekh post kar raha hoon.yah lekh unhonne Screen ke liye likha tha.yah lekh mujhe Shashikant Kinikar ki pustak ‘Guru Dutt 1925-1964′ mein mila.pustak mein koi tarikh nahin di gayi hai,lekin lekh mein aaye dev anand aur geeta bali ke zikra se lagta hai ki 1955-56 ke aaspaas likha gaya hoga.is pustak mein unke aur bhi do lekh hain.agar koi unhen yahan …

The language of the post is Non-English.. only the script is in english.

do hafte pahle pakistan jaane ka mauka mila.mujhe lahore jana tha.wahan meri beti vidha saumya beackon house national university mein independent studen ke taur pa saarc fellowship ke tahat padh rahi hai.bahana us se milne ka tha ya bahana pakistan dekhne ka?mujhe lagta hai ki donon bahanon ne mil kar yah trip mumkin kiya.
filmon mein interest hone ki wajah main janna chahta tha ki filhaal lahore ki film industry ke kya haal haai.wahan ke evernew studio mein jana hua.wahan koi shooting nahin ho rahi thi. tv serials,jise pakistan mein tv drama kaha jata hai,ki dubbing ke liye aaye kuchh tv stars se albatta mulaqat hui.ek director ne bataya ki saal mein do-teen filmon ki hi shooting ho pati hai,jinmein se do punjabi ki hoti hain.ek zamane mein gulzar rahe multan road par aaj bhi studios hain,lekin wahan filmi …