TopicHindi cinema

Topic: Hindi cinema

Hum Log, India’s first soap opera and DD’s experiment with foreign cinema

Fiza Jha - 22 December, 2019

The family drama with a social message, Hum Log was a pan-India favourite that everyone identified with.

Shailendra — the Leftist poet and Dalit genius whose lyrics define beauty of simplicity

Fiza Jha - 14 December, 2019

Shailendra, the prolific lyricist, who straddled the worlds of communism and Bombay’s film industry, wrote over 900 songs.

Durga Khote, the ‘mother’ of Hindi & Marathi cinema who broke social taboos

Revathi Krishnan - 22 September, 2019

Durga Khote made a name for herself as a lead actor before Independence & as a ‘mother’ after it. She also acted as Lady Macbeth and started her own ad agency.

Do Raaste cemented Rajesh Khanna’s position as Bollywood’s first superstar

Madhavi Pothukuchi - 21 July, 2019

Do Raaste shows how a middle-class Indian family tries to adjust when people with different outlook share the same roof.

Dangal actor Zaira Wasim says Bollywood leading her away from faith, quits acting

PTI - 30 June, 2019

In a detailed Facebook post, the young Kashmiri-born actor said she realised "though I may fit here perfectly, I do not belong here".

Mujhe Jeene Do: When Sunil Dutt shattered inter-faith marriage taboo while playing a dacoit

Madhavi Pothukuchi - 26 May, 2019

Written by Sunil Dutt’s closest friend, Aghajani Kashmeri, the script of this 1963 film isn’t black and white, even if the picture was.

Balraj Sahni, the common man’s hero who told their story through cinema

Madhavi Pothukuchi - 1 May, 2019

On his 106th birth anniversary, ThePrint recounts Balraj Sahni, his illustrious career, life as a writer and activist & his cult movies.

Namak Haraam, the film in which Amitabh Bachchan trumped then superstar Rajesh Khanna

Amit Upadhyaya - 24 February, 2019

In Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s film Namak Haraam, 'supporting' actor Amitabh Bachchan stole the show, and perhaps the crown as well.

Remembering Kamal Amrohi, the filmmaker who needed just 4 movies to be hailed as a master

Ekta Handa - 17 January, 2019

Writer-director Kamal Amrohi is best known for Pakeezah, the musical classic starring his wife Meena Kumari, and the Ashok Kumar-Madhubala starrer Mahal.

On Shakti Samanta’s birth anniversary, a toast to his depiction of ‘amar prem’

Anagha Deshpande - 13 January, 2019

Shakti Samanta, born this day in 1926, was a farsighted film-maker who celebrated different kinds of love.

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