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Some thing changes the course of direction in the life. Manoj Kumar did Shaheed and made Bhagat Singh’s character immortal on screen. No other actor could play the role of Bhagat Singh as convincingly as Manoj Kumar played in Shaheed.

Watch the Manoj Kumar as Bhagat Singh in Shaheed singing the song
Ai Watan Ai Watan humko teri kasam and recall the famous posters of Bhagat Singh.

He was at his best in Shaheed. Bhagat Singh’s role remained his best performance . Before Shaheed he was seen as another imitator of Dilip Kumar’s acting style.

Shaeed made him popular as an independent hero and Shaheed’s popularity gave him chance to make Upkar. Shaheed gave him the solid ground on which he could create the character of Bharat Kumar.

Everybody has something special in him/her and every actor also has …

Aapke Deewane is a romantic comedy film having love triangle in the plot. AKD was the debut film for Rakesh Roshan as a Producer.

AKD is a fun film like other films of Rishi Kapoor, came out in the 70s. Influences of films like Khel Khel Mein and Rafoo Chakkar can be found in AKD. Campus based fun of KKM is present in AKD also and like Rafoo chakkar, male character here also pretends to be a woman to earn some money and to win the heart of his love interest.

Hritik Roshan also made his debut in acting with this film. In same year 1980 Hritik was also seen in the film Aasha which was made by his maternal grandfather J Om Prakash. After few years he appeared again as a child actor in Bhagwan Dada. …

To continue the series “Initial Steps”, excerpts from an interview of Director Prakash Jha,
taken by Ajay Brahmatmaj , are presented here.

Ajay writes

I had started my interview series with the interview of Prakash Jha. He is my elder and to some extent my guide also. Perhaps it is difficult, at present, to evaluate the contribution of Prakash Jha to Hindi cinema but he has brought a new language to the Hindi cinema.

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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 Prakash Jha, one should go through the original interview. This is simply a trial to expose the interview to those readers who can not read Hindi at all]
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From now onwards Ajay Bramatmaj will be represented by AB and Prakash Jha …

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 …