Posts Tagged ‘Shashi Kapoor’

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    Mere paas Shashi hai
    Every evening show at his Prithvi theatre, he is wheelchaired in, he watches every play and when the place is emptying, waves bye bye, nods, or just smiles tiredly. I waved to him last week after a show of Veenapani Chawla’s Tortoise and the Hare, and he smiled. And to think there was a time when he’d be sparring with me about a review or chatting genially in the...
    by Khalid Mohamed at November 24th, 2009 at 09:11 am
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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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    The MFF (MAMI) curtain raiser
    The Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI) committee led by chairman Shyam Benegal and trustees Jaya Bachchan, Amit Khanna, Shabana Azmi, Amol Palekar, Ashutosh Gowarikar have unveiled the line-up for the 11th annual Mumbai Film Festival (MFF), which will screen 200 films from 56 countries. All of the international films to be screened in the main sections of this year’s...
    by Runumi G at October 21st, 2009 at 03:10 am
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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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    Amitabh Bachchan – A look at the personalities behind the persona
    iView Author: Akshay Manwani (New Delhi, India) Email: akshay.manwani[at]gmail[dot]com ‘Amitabh Bachchan – A look at the personalities behind the persona At the risk of courting infamy, I write this piece. For what else can be expected to come ones’ way when you critique Amitabh Bachchan – arguably the biggest superstar ever to have appeared on the Indian...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 15th, 2009 at 03:04 am
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    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
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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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    The Torture Series 3: Bhavani Junction
    Warning: Post contains strong language and sexual content. Imagine, me entering my hitlerian Dad’s room. Imagine me asking for his permission to go out and see a movie called Bhavani Junction. Then imagine Pitashree’s right hand moving in slow motion, big tight palms connecting to my left cheek sending me flying out of his room in slo mo. Had that incident...
    by oz at August 26th, 2008 at 06:08 pm
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    Siddhartha(1972) :: Cinematic depiction of spiritual quest !
    Background : Conrad Rooks had got involved in drugs and had visited France to get rid of his drug addiction. There he got to read the book “Sidhaartha” (written by Nobel Laureate, German author Herman Hess). He was greatly impressed by the book and he developed a wish to make a film on the book. He got the rights of making a film on the book with the help of son...
    by Rk at May 29th, 2007 at 08:05 am
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    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
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    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
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