Posts Tagged ‘Rekha’

  • 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
  • No way to treat a lady..or women in the movies
    *Hear out the honcho. The movie production house COO (not even the CEO), says airily,“Please not another woman-oriented film.” The implication is that women are the second-rung gender out here. *A TV interviewer, a woman, asks tetchily, “But why always women?” To that you ask, in sheer despair, “Why not?” * A well-meaning producer...
    by Khalid Mohamed at March 14th, 2009 at 08:03 am
  • Kalyug : Humanization of mythological characters and modernization of events of Mahabharata
    Son yells,”Kulta (Slut)”, and runs to hit his mother. * * * * * * People read or watch very easily that Kunti goes to Karna and tells him that he is her eldest son and asks for the lives of Pandava brothers. People read or watch with ease that Karna was born before Kunti was married. People take it easy to read or see that all the five Pandava brothers know...
    by Rk at December 23rd, 2008 at 03:12 am
  • 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
  • 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
  • Prakash Jha : Hrishikesh Mukharjee cried after watching my film
    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...
    by Rk at July 2nd, 2008 at 09:07 am
  • Utsav(1984):: Eroticism at its best in hindi cinema!
    When a genius like Girish Karnad, the playwright, who wrote his most famous play, Tughlaq, at the age of 25 only and won Jnanapith award for writing plays in 1999, joins hands with another genius Shashi Kapoor, a film producer who dares to make different and sensible cinema and tries to carry cinema to new heights, then only a film like Utsav borns. Girish Karnad had made...
    by Rk at April 10th, 2007 at 07:04 am
  • Silsila(1981) :: A Conflict of emotions Vs realities & responsibilities!
    Silsila is special in so many ways. This is the last film in which AB and Rekha worked together. It’s the last Yash Chopra Film where AB played a leading man. It’s the first film where Javed Akhtar started his career as lyricist also after being a highly successful script writer and Hari Prasad Chaurasia the famous flute player and Shiv Kumar Sharma the famous Santur...
    by Rk at March 7th, 2007 at 08:03 am