Posts Tagged ‘hrishikesh mukherjee’

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    Amitabh Bachchan and Yash Chopra : Five stars
    Amitabh Bachchan turns 67 today and it can be remembered that like the union of Amitabh Bachchan and Hrishikesh Mukherjee union of AB and Yash Chopra has also been proved as a very fruitful combination for AB, YC and hindi films in general. AB worked with Yash Chopra first time in Deewar in 1975 and last time in Silsila in 1981 (as a hero so not considering their re-union...
    by Rk at October 11th, 2009 at 03:10 pm
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    The undying torch of Satyakam
    iView Author: Arjun Narayanan (Noida, India) Email: arju1987 [at] hotmail [dot] com The undying torch of Satyakam There are times when a work of art goes unrecognised in the public eye and is less talked of in the same breath with other works of art by the later generations. Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Satyakam, perhaps is, one such work. After the success of Anupama,...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at June 4th, 2009 at 06:06 pm
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    Rang Birangi, Aloo Chat : Filmy Experiment Gone Wrong
    So, what’s common between Rang Birangi and Aloo Chat? Ok, lets recall Pati Patni Aur Woh and DDLJ, any bells ringing yet?? David Dhawan’s movie Hero No.1 was a good mix of Bawarchi and DDLJ. Govinda becomes a cook/servant to gain entry into Karishma’s house only to impress her family members and gain their confidence. Of course, lots of movies got inspired...
    by crazyrals at May 10th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
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    Director – Actor Combo: Some Gems
    iView Author: SATYENDRA JHA (Pune, India) Email: satyendrajha30 [at]gmail[dot]com Like most of my other articles on PFC, this one has also got its seeds from one of the comments on the beautiful articles written by Ratnakar and Crazyrals paying homage to the great Shakti Samanta, who left us for heavenly abode last week. Well, the comment in question was how Shakti-da...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 19th, 2009 at 11:04 am
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    Emergence of defeatist
    iView Author: Akshaya (Mumbai,India) Email: akshaya(dot)gawarikar(at)gmail(dot)com Emergence of defeatist Leaving Las Vegas” Movie released in 1995 was, loosely based on semi autobiographical novel by John O’Brien. Nicolas Cage was in the role of depressed alcoholic out of binds of family and work, who plans to commit suicide and on the way to his destination falls...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 30th, 2009 at 06:03 pm
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    Life Simplified
    iView Author: dilnawaz (Patna, India) Email: syed.tauheed[at] gmail.com Life simplified Wondered how some people battle and emerge victorious and some crumble at the tiniest hint of trouble? Call it KARMA, LUCK, FATE, DESTINY. It is all in ones KISMAT.what is store one will definitely receive. Like in MAHABHARATA when dhritrashtra gave pandavas the most barren and...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 4th, 2009 at 07:03 pm
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    Namak Haram-Friends and Class Conflict
      In  1965,  Hollywood  had come out  with a movie  Becket,  starring  Richard Burton  as  Thomas  Becket,  the archbishop of  Canterbury  and   Peter O Toole  as   King Henry II. Both  of  them  play  close  friends,  but   later fall out,  due to their  ideologies  and the  eternal clash between  the  clergy  and royalty.    Hrishida, ...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at January 14th, 2009 at 11:01 am
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    Satyakam (1969) – Idealism vs Pragmatism
    When India gained independence in 1947, the generation of the 50’s were imbued with a spirit of optimism, hope inspired by Pandit Nehru’s call for a tryst with destiny. For the most part the 50’s was a decade of peace and optimism in India. We were not a rich nation, but the optimism was there in every Indian that we would soon take achieve our tryst....
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at January 6th, 2009 at 06:01 pm
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    Critical Adoor….
    iView Author: SUDDHASATYA GHOSH (Kolkata, India) EMAIL: withheld Critical Adoor and a few more words for Mumbai industry There is a series of recent releases in Bollywood as usual. With more to come in time I was thinking about a reaction from great Adoor Gopalakrishnan about the mainstream Hindi films. He, in a recent interview to The Telegraph (Graphitti), had said...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at July 5th, 2008 at 10:07 am
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    PERFORMANCE FAILURE
    Whenever you read or heard “Is actor ne us actor ke performance ko us film me kaccha chaba liya hai” means one actor has overshadowed another actor’s performance. What do you thinks at that time? Is it failure of actor? Sometimes it is true, sometimes it is questionable. Take example of Agneepath(1990). It was truly Amitabh Bachchan’s film. But you can not ignore...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at May 9th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
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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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