Posts Tagged ‘Rajesh Khanna’

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    Aakhri Khat : Chetan Anand’s unique cinematic experiment with a toddler
    Chetan Anand showed a brave attempt by making Aakhri Khat . He tried to set different boundaries with this film. He had a 15 months old toddler as the lead actor in his film and elder actors had supporting roles in a story revolving around the kid. Aakhri Khat reveals that cinema can be so powerful that it may force an audience to wriggle to enter the screen to influence...
    by Rk at November 5th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
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    BULLET motorcyles in the history of Hindi Cinema
    While the heart of the whole nation beats in a unified “Dhak-Dhak” when Hritik Roshan straddles across our living rooms riding the Hero Honda, the original machine that epitomized “Dhak-Dhak” aka the Bullet motorcycle has not found much favor with our film fraternity as far as its portrayal in the world of Hindi cinema is concerned. Now with Harley Davidson deciding...
    by Nalin at August 31st, 2009 at 11:08 am
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    Long time no see!
    The first superstar of Hindi cinema makes an appearance at IIFA, to receive the lifetime achievement award. In his acceptance speech Khanna mentioned It took me 40 years and 180 films to get this IIFA Life time Achievement award-along journey. I must say, I am very grateful to IIFA, (the event organisers) Wizcraft, committee members and to ‘babumoshai’. Babumoshai,...
    by PFCdesktop at June 14th, 2009 at 11:06 am
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    Feroz Khan : Abhee hum zinda hain
    In his last film “Welcome” Feroz Khan was found repeatedly saying,”Abhee hum zinda hain“. Though actor, director and producer Feroz Khan will remain alive in the memory of audiences but the man Feroz Khan has died today. May his soul rest in peace. Jahan rasta nahin koi wahan mein banaunga, meri zindagi se milein jinhe huaslon ki talash ho was...
    by Rk at April 26th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
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    Hrishi Da and Amitabh Bachchan : Bemisal Jodi
    Hrishi Da was able to use his actors in a very constructive manner and that is why many of them gave few of their best performances in his films. Very good directors also need very good actors to create remarkable things on the screen. This can be seen via Hrisha Da’s own films also. In the era of mid 60s when coloured films had become a common phenomenon, he had made...
    by Rk at April 19th, 2009 at 08:04 am
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    Shakti Samanta- Kuch Sunheri Yaadein
    Growing up  during  the  80’s,  entertainment on Wednesday’s  meant one thing,  Chitrahaar  on  Doordarshan.  Watching  the songs  which i loved  hearing on  the  TV  screen,  was  an  experience  in  itself.   And   some  images  were  unforgettable. Rajesh  Khanna  driving  along the  Darjeeling road,  serenading his  “Sapnon...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at April 12th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
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    Shakti Samanta – A Musical Tribute
    ye kyaa huaa, kaise huaa, kab huaa kyon huaa, jab huaa, tab huaa chhodo, ye naa socho humne jo dekhaa thaa, sunaa thaa kyaa bataaye wo kyaa thaa sapnaa salonaa thaa khatam to honaa thaa, huaa When the end came, it was really sorrowful. But as all good things come to and end, so did the life of Shakti Samanta. The above lines are from his movie Amar Prem and they are so...
    by crazyrals at April 11th, 2009 at 12:04 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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    Do Hanky
    iView Author: ava (Chandigarh, India) Email: avasuri [at] gmail [dot] com Do Hanky Do Raste was a movie by Raj Khosla that released in 1969. This was a momentous year for Rajesh Khanna. Here was a genuine boy next door who wore bush-shirts over slim fit trousers. His diction (or should I say dialouge delivery) was to die for. He had worked in some avant garde movies...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 2nd, 2008 at 09:12 am
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    Death : An absolute truth that changes everything
    Every second of every day we are approaching towards the death. We can ignore anything and everything in the life but we can not ignore this fact that one day death will finish this cycle of our activities and we will have to go from this planet. Before that event happens death shows us its face many times in our life time through death of people living around us. It does...
    by Rk at October 7th, 2008 at 08:10 am
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    Portrait of a director – Hrishikesh Mukherjee
    iView Author: The Narcissist (Goa, India) Email: withheld ——————————————————– Portrait of a director – Hrishikesh Mukherjee ——————————————————– There...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at September 15th, 2008 at 05:09 am
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    Kudrat (1981) – A Tale of Reincarnation
    iView Author: Ratnakar Sadasyula (Bhubaneshwar, India) Email: ratnakar.techie [at] gmail [dot] com ——————————————————– Kudrat(1981)- A Tale of Reincarnation ——————————————————– Among...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at September 12th, 2008 at 06:09 am
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    The Torture Series 2: Insaaf Main Karoonga
    Warning: Strong Language and Sexual Content. It was 1985. Indira Gandhi had been assassinated about a year ago. I was consistently in a state of depression. No not because of the tragic demise of Mrs. Gandhi, but because of some kind of chemical locha in my head. Unfortunately Munnabhai had not yet come alive. He would 20 years later. That year, Sanjay Dutt had just returned...
    by oz at August 20th, 2008 at 07:08 am
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    Sanjeev Kumar : Romantic hero was full of fun also on screen
    Just to remember Sanjeev Kumar and to celebrate his 70th birth anniversary. ——————– 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....
    by Rk at July 9th, 2008 at 07:07 am
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    Ashutosh Gowarikar : I missed the Prem’s role in Maine Pyar Kiya
    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...
    by Rk at June 10th, 2008 at 05:06 am
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    Darsheel’s childhood will surmount side-effects of stardom?
    Class six student, Darsheel Safary, who has got startdom after success of Tare Zameen Par , is feeling something has been changed in his life at his school. He says about his friends “They’ve changed totally. I only have some friends left… maybe six in all. The rest have all left me. They’re all the time trying to pull me down. They’re...
    by Rk at April 22nd, 2008 at 02:04 am
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