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BollywoodLife Anniversary: Actors, filmmakers, experimenters – What is the future of Bollywood directors?
With the kind of movies that are being made in Bollywood changing so fast, we just had to look at what filmmakers could do more of in the future
Bollywood has grown tremendously in the last few years. And in the two years that we’ve been tracking the filmbiz, hawk-eyed, following every single movie that hits the screens, reporting on Click here to read moreClick to Comment
Anurag Kashyap Interview: I used to stand outside Amitabh Bachchan’s bungalow!
The Bombay Talkies director talks about being a crazy Big B fan, preserving movies and the Cannes International Film Festival
Anurag Kashyap has come a long way from struggling and sleeping on street corners to being included in the league of directors who have contributed hugely to the evolution of Indian cinema. Today the filmmaker is so Click here to read moreChandan Roy Sanyal: I missed the sound of a projector!
Chandan Roy Sanyal reminiscences about his childhood days when he was first exposed to cinema
Every day passes by either getting away from distant lengths and breadths of life, which if mapped from the day we were born is either getting shorter if you are not going anywhere in life, or gets farther from where you were if you have used your life as the complete opposite of what you were taught to do. Click here to read moreIs Ram Gopal Varma really going gaga over Karan Johar’s Student Of The Year?
A short while ago we witnessed the Bhoot Returns maker gushing about the Dharma Production film. Really? Was he praising it or…? Read on to find out!
Ram Gopal Varma is an avid tweeter. And while his microblogging sometimes becomes the source of fabulous entertainment, at other times we’re frantically trying to figure what RGV is trying to say. Click here to read moreHappy birthday, Guru Dutt!
It’s the Hindi film director-producer-actor’s 87th birth anniversary today
Guru Dutt – the man who made some of finest Hindi films of all time like Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool, Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam and Chaudhvin Ka Chand – was born on July 9 in 1925. Click here to read moreRaj Kapoor’s ‘Awaara’ in Time magazine’s 100 greatest films
The magazine’s critic calls Raj Kapoor ‘the great star-auteur of India’s post-colonial golden age of movies’
Time magazine has included Raj Kapoor’s 1951 classic Awaara among 20 new entries added to its All-Time 100 list of the greatest films made since 1923, the beginning of the prestigious periodical. Rethinking the movie masterpieces, Time critic Richard Corliss describes Raj Kapoor as “the great star-auteur of India’s post-colonial golden age of movies – Cary Grant and Cecil B DeMille in one handsome package”. Click here to read moreHappy birthday, Waheeda Rehman!
The actor, who made characters like Rosy (Guide) and Gulabo (Pyaasa) legendary with her beauty and spontaneity, turns 76 today
Born on May 14, 1936, Waheeda Rehman made her entry into Hindi cinema with CID opposite Dev Anand. The actor was a huge fan of Dev Anand, who was a big star at that point, and she was thrilled when she found out that she was going to make her debut as his leading lady. Click here to read moreJaved Jaffrey: It is wrong to equate Indian cinema with Bollywood
You have done a variety of films. Is there a particular genre that you feel more challenging than others?
I don’t feel many things I do are challenging. I am not talking about physical challenges here. Doing a film like Boom was challenging. It was a quirky role and I feel doing a completely mad character like that was extremely challenging. The way I walked, I talked, my posture, my accent, my tone in that film, everything was so unusual for me and that was a big challenge. I did 8 by 10 Tasveer with Nagesh Kukunoor. The film tanked at the box office, but I enjoyed doing it. I loved doing Dhamaal too. It was loud and over-the-top, but I enjoyed working in that film. Click here to read more
