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Tag Archives: Meena Kumari
Kachchi hai umariya is a fabulous picturisation of a woman, who slowly throws away her inhibitions and yields to her urges. Shirish Waghmode explores this song from KA Abbas'...
Nabendu Ghosh, the renowned screenplay and scriptwriter, was closely associated with Phani Majumdar, the legendary filmmaker who directed classics such as Street Singer, Doctor, Baadbaan, Oonche...
Phani Majumdar, the legendary filmmaker who directed classics such as Street Singer, Baadbaan, Oonche Log, Aarti, to name a few, had an illustrious career spanning films in several languages...
When Guru Dutt picked up Bimal Mitra's acclaimed Bangla novel Saheb Bibi Golam, he made certain significant changes to tune the story for its cinematic adaptation. Vijay Kumar takes a 360 degree view...
This is in continuation to Musically Yours, 1963 Part 1.
Monica...
A particular film has often achieved an iconic status in which the lead of the film has used her/his eyes, for instance Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, or our every Om Puri in Ardh Satya. Eyes,...
"Good looks, great talent and unhappiness. Perhaps no other star combined all three in such a heady brew as Meena Kumari did." Sathya Saran, Consulting Editor with HarperCollins and author of several books, writes...
Widely acclaimed for her heart-touching performances in tragic and grief-stricken roles, Meena Kumari earned herself the epithet of “Tragedy Queen”. Pain and anguish was part of her life...
Bollywood's reigning queens over the decades have always had some thread of distinct commonality between themselves.
The Muslim community of post-partition India occupies an in-between space beyond the self and before the other. Hindi cinema furnishes an interesting site of analysis.
