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LAXMIKANT-PYARELAL ( 1963-1998)
LAXMIKANT-PYARELAL (1963 – 1998) 1) Introduction:- Laxmikant-Pyarelal is a name that needs no introduction in the field of Hindi Film Music or Hindustani Music. Laxmikant-Pyarelal was a household name in every part of India, from the mid sixty to the end of the century. The name represents an archive of hit film music that was churned out non-stop right from 1963...
by Ajay Poundarik at January 26th, 2010 at 08:01 am
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Posters Let You Know Who Is Going To Rock And Rocket
Before the stars ***** are doled out across the newspapers and channels after the release of a film , the stars have to really sweat it out and prove their mettle by luring the audience to theatres!..And the classic and basic vehicle to do is Film Posters.. Poster is like a coded message ..One glance and you can make out what genre of film it is, who is selling as a star,...
by krysh at December 10th, 2009 at 07:12 am
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and Pran : the numero uno villain deserves a Dada Saheb Phalke award
Pran, a very intelligent and fine actor, brought maximum variety to the villainous characters in hindi cinema. In terms of variety no other actor, who has ever played villainous characters in hindi films, could compete with Pran. Pran and Shatrughan Sinha remain two villains of Hindi cinema who were applauded when they returned to a negative character after many years...
by Rk at November 25th, 2009 at 02:11 pm
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Politics… rare, medium or well done?
Politics! It’s tackled by our B-town movies..only once in a flu moon. Right now, in Prakash Jha’s Rajniti, the Mahabharat is sought to be adapted to today’s realpolitik. Fine, should be punchy, worth spotting the reference to the context, who’s playing which epical character. Shyam Benegal did practically the same update with Kalyug, incidentally. Twenty-eight...
by Khalid Mohamed at November 9th, 2009 at 11:11 am
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APKGK : Hasna Zaroori hai in this Love Story of Mr. President
Forget unstoppable media frenzy with the stories of powerful Presidents and details of the secret behind the physical beauty of the few of the first ladies, APKGK is far more interesting story of a far more interesting President and his love interest. What if he is the President of a small youth club “Happy Club” only? Unlike political Presidents PREM is here to...
by Rk at November 7th, 2009 at 02:11 pm
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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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Wake Up Sid: Bombay to Mumbai : A matter of Love
There are two love stories that progress in the Wake Up Sid. And these two love stories can not be given any first and second order ranking as they both happen simultaneously. When an outsider Aisha (Konkana Sen) comes to the city then it is Bombay for her and like this city Sid (Ranbir Kapoor) is also a stranger but Sid (a born Bombay walla who now lives in Mumbai)...
by Rk at October 4th, 2009 at 11:10 am
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Chintu Ji : Fiesta for entire family
Film’s tag line (This film is part reality, part illusion and part fact, part fiction) summarizes very well the category in which this film can be defined. Rishi Kapoor plays himself, Rishi Kapoor the film star who is better known by his nickname Chintu. But except using real profession and real names of Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Raj Kapoor and Krishna Kapoor film...
by Rk at September 4th, 2009 at 01:09 pm
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Teesri Kasam: An Underrated Classic
I have been going through some tough times these days, mainly at the professional level, and that has kept me busy in more ways than one. Long hours in the office, not much opportunity to talk to friends or family, thinking about work much after office-hours and generally feeling low have been some of the symptoms. And then I talked to the doctor in me, and I prescribed...
by Satyendra Jha at August 17th, 2009 at 01:08 pm
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Yaari Hai Imaan Mera, Yaar Meri Zindagi- Friendship as depicted in Bollywood Films
On behalf of Ashwin I dedicate this post to Vrushali, who according to Ashwin is the best friend in the world. Friendship is an integral part of our emotions and friends occupy an important part of our lives. In some cases friends often are given the same status as that of family members when it comes to certain crunch situations. For someone who has been brought up over...
by Sethumadhavan at June 1st, 2009 at 03:06 am
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Chaudhvin ka chand ho : A tribute to Shakeel Badayuni
iView Author: Akshay Manwani (New Delhi, India) Email: akshay.manwani [at]gmail[dot]com Content : Chaudhvin ka chand ho : A tribute to Shakeel Badayuni The word ‘Shakeel’ in the Urdu language literally translates to beauty. No coincidence then that in 1960, Shakeel Badayuni, the great lyricist from yesteryear, penned perhaps the finest ode to the feminine form through...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 20th, 2009 at 08:04 am
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Manna Dey- An Underrated Genius
When you listen to Mehmood going into a perfect Carnatic classical tune in the zany chaos of “Ek Chatur Naar Karke Singaar” from Padosan, you could actually make out the Carnatic feel. When you heard a group of singers in “Teesri Kasam”, belt out “Chalath Musafir Mo liyo Re”, you were...
by Ratnakar Sadasyula at April 15th, 2009 at 02:04 am
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DEATH OF ORIGINALITY
iView Author: Sonu Sureshbabu Malgee (Thane, India) Email: withheld DEATH OF ORIGINALITY “Nothing is original”, said Mahesh Bhatt. To which, Sudhir Mishra replied, “ARTH was original”. Yet he says “Nothing is original”. I don’t’ know how many of you believe in the definition of Mr. Bhatt., but I think his definition is...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 26th, 2009 at 01:03 pm
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Happy Holi !
Holi, the festival of colours, keeps different meaning to different people. Now nature will be more supportive to the farming. More and more flowers will be seen everywhere as spring has become the face of nature. Holi, has been the occasion when people forget their differences with each other and if they are still shy in raising hands towards each other then other...
by Rk at March 10th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
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Satyam Shivam Sundaram : Khajuraho concept in Hindi cinema
A large number of people are there who always shout as soon as they get a chance that India is the land of Khajuraho Temples and these people treat these temples as the places depicting sexual behaviour of mankind. Many of them equate Khajuraho temples with the erotic shops available elsewhere. If it is so then why these statues were carved on the outer walls of the temples...
by Rk at September 18th, 2008 at 04:09 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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Director is like a God walking on earth : Shyam Benegal
Orson Welles, Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Andrei Tarkovsky, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Bernardo Bertolucci, Frank Capra, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean-Luc Godard, Fellini, Kubrick, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roman Polanski, Sydney Pollack, Steven Soderbergh, James Ivory etc etc and PC Barua, Sohrab Modi, Mehboob, Kedar Sharma, Bimol...
by Rk at June 6th, 2008 at 06:06 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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The Story of a Raja and Rani
This post, sent in by Mr. Vikas Parihar, was found to be a literal copy of the article published in Dainik Baskar at the following URL: www.bhaskar.com Please do not send in your iView articles that are not original or do not mention the original article, that your post is based on. Please review the iView guidelines before sending in your posts to PFC for iView. iView...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at May 12th, 2008 at 03:05 am
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Begani Shadi Mein Adullah Deewana : Item numbers by Super Stars
Many years ago Raj Kapoor and Padmini had danced on the song Begani Shaadi mein Abdullah Deewana. Song was very much part of the film and Raj Kapoor and Padmini were not mere imported material in the film but they were leading man and woman of the film. Helen used to be there in the films to dance on one or two songs and people used to enjoy and appreciate her songs and...
by Rk at April 17th, 2008 at 06:04 am
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Dilip Kumar :: Actor of Actors was born today ! part 1
Telephone rings after mid night in one of the bungalows situated at Pali Hill in one of the chilling nights of winters of 1982. A sleepy man picks up the receiver and hears “ Mein Raj bol raha hun laale ! Abhi teri Shakti dekhi, Laale bas ho gaya faisla , there is only one Dilip Kumar in this country, and nobody can touch his level” [ This is Raj, Just saw your Shakti...
by Rk at December 11th, 2007 at 08:12 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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Bold face of Hindi Cinema = B. R. Ishara !
It is often said that though both, Raj Kapoor and B R Ishara, dealt with female exposure to a great extent but while Raj Kapoor exposed his heroines slowly scene by scene, B R Ishara believed in doing it in one go. Audience blinks and clothes of the actress are gone. But nudity in his film was not for the sake of it but it was as per requirement of his scripts. In several...
by Rk at April 24th, 2007 at 04:04 am
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Lamhe:: Story eclipsed the fate of one of the best films of Yash Chopra
Lamhe is a beautiful film in looks. It has got Sri Devi at her best in hindi films. Anil Kapur, too brings a good performance and Lamhe surely added to his reputation of being a good actor. Music is wonderful. Direction is fantastic. Screen play deals with various human emotions and comedy, tragedy, separation, union, tears, laughing etc so many elements are the part of...
by Rk at April 17th, 2007 at 04:04 am
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India also needs to make films with veteran actors in lead roles!
After reading Anurag’s post where he has mentioned that he is searching for an actor who could play Gabbar Singh in No Smoking. An actor who should be between 50 and 60 years old. Danny was the most natural choice with obvious reasons. and as soon as Danny’s name flashed in mind, I was filled with a thirst to see this amazing actor in a meaningful role. I saw...
by Rk at October 19th, 2006 at 04:10 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