Confused? I am talking about Bollywood here! This time, yet another remade action-thriller hit the big screens by the name “Baby John” which features Bollywood’s star-kid Varun Dhawan. Co-written and co-produced by Atlee Kumar, and directed by Kalees, Baby John hit theaters on Christmas 2024. Ready To Go “Beast Mode” With Varun Dhawan! An ordinary
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Pic: Courtesy: Pinterest/Ravinder Singh Thakur When Mohammed Rafi passed away on 31 July 1980, even the skies wept. The outpouring of grief that accompanied his funeral cortège was not just because of a legendary singer’s untimely death, but because the man who died had been, above all, a good human being. The legacy that Rafi
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Polish actress and model Natalia Janoszek is set to capture hearts all over again as she announces her comeback with Housefull 5 and a film co-starring Ibrahim Ali Khan. After participating in the International Film Festival of India at Goa last month, she flew to Bollywood city Mumbai. Here are some excerpts from an interview:
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Directed by: Basu BhattacharyaMusic: Shankar-JaikishanLyrics: Shailendra, Hasrat JaipuriStarring: Raj Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Iftekhar, Krishan Dhawan, Dulari, Asit Sen, CS Dubey When we first see Hirabai (Waheeda Rehman), it is through Hiraman’s (Raj Kapoor) eyes. She’s asleep and he hesitantly peeks through the curtain that separates them, not having seen who his passenger is. Hiraman, viewing
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Bahaarein Phir Bhi Aayengi (1966)Music: OP NayyarLyrics: AnjaanPicturised on: DharmendraThe only problem with singing a song when there are two women present is that you need to make it very clear who you are singing to – or the wrong woman might reciprocate. Jeeten (Dharmendra) is singing praises of his lady love, Sunita (Tanuja) who,
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Today let’s celebrate the 100th birth anniversary of Rafi, one of the greatest playback singers of Hindi cinema. Last year on the same occasion, I started the birth centenary year with ‘the yearly review of Rafi’s Hindi film songs’. And though not planned, today I’m presenting the most crucial year of his career in Hindi
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Conversations Over Chai: The Many Moods of Raj Kapoor (function() { var c = –> The Many Moods of Raj Kapoor I have celebrated Raj Kapoor in songs before; his aptitude for playing various musical instruments, for instance, or his collaboration with his ‘soul’, or with Mohammed Rafi, and even unlikely voices lending him playback.
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Directed by Raj KapoorMusic: Shankar-JaikishanLyrics: Shailendra, Hasrat Jaipuri, Neeraj, Prem DhawanStarring: Rishi Kapoor, Simi, Manoj Kumar, Kseniya Ryabinkana, Achala Sachdev, Dara Singh, Dharmendra, Rajendranath, Om PrakashandRaj Kapoor “The Joker was conceived as early as the post-Awara years and Abbas sahib’s marathon script was the result of years of visualisation and labour. Still many a year
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Allu Arjun rocks the box-office with his fiery acting and magnetic screen-presence By Sharada Iyer The box-office collections of Pushpa 2-The Rise are clocking monumental numbers! Allu Arjun’s film has caused a tsunami and his magic is spreading like wildfire across the country with the domestic collections totalling to more than rupees 500 crores in
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A few months back, when I published the list of songs addressed to Zindagi I realised that the songs are about talking to your own self. A similar situation is when the songs are addressed to the inner self. One talks to self by either addressing one’s mind or to heart. I chose the mind
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