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The evergreen actor Dev Anand’s journey
The Chargesheet director played various roles of an actor, director and producer in his long and illustrious career of 65 years in Bollywood and that’s why he was called the evergreen actor!
Bollywood has lost another legend this year. He is the evergreen actor Dev Anand. The 88-year-old star passed away of cardiac arrest in London on Saturday night. He was feeling unwell past few weeks so had gone to the city for a health check-up. The legendary actor in his long and illustrious career span over 65 years never had a dull moment. Click here to read more2 Comments
Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Bejawada’ release postponed
Ram Gopal Varma has always created controversies prior to most of his film releases. All his films have generated great buzz right from the launch due to the novel ideas he embraced
The latest RGV factory production, the action entertainer Bejawada was engulfed in controversies from the beginning. According to the latest buzz, the film’s release date has now been postponed. Click here to read moreRemembering Kishore Kumar and Ashok Kumar
Very few people know that Ashok Kumar’s birth anniversary coincides with the day that his younger brother Kishore Kumar passed away. Today we think of the legendary Ganguly brothers and the bond they shared
Kishore Kumar Ganguly’s career started long after his elder brother Ashok Kumar Ganguly had already become a star. Ashok Kumar has said that when Kishore was very young his voice was coarse and he didn’t even know that Ashok was his brother. He would often wonder why his mother fed Ashok each time he came home from Mumbai. Slowly Ashok’s family started visiting Mumbai too, taking the young Kishore along. Click here to read moreAshok Kumar: Wish him on his 100th birth anniversary
The life and times of the ‘Dadamoni’ of Indian cinema
He was a shy man with average looks, definitely not the Bollywood type; yet destiny had other plans for Ashok Kumar who got into showbiz by chance and never looked back. As the late actor’s 100th birth anniversary dawns Thursday, film historians and fans remember the ‘Dadamoni’ of Indian cinema. Born in a Bengali family October 13, 1911, he did his schooling from Presidency College in Kolkata, and graduated in sciences and law. Not quite starry-eyed, he came to Mumbai in 1936 in search of a job. He got the role of a lab assistant in the newly established Bombay Talkies. But one day film director Himanshu Rai was furious with the lead actor of his film who had vanished without informing him. On the spur of the moment, he laid his eyes on Ashok and wanted the man as the lead in his film Jeevan Naiya. Click here to read moreHappy Birthday, Dev Anand!
The Guide actor turns 88 today – his enduring passion for cinema is an inspiration and motivation for the young guns in Bollywood
Born Devdutt on September 26, 1923, Dev Anand was launched as a leading man opposite Kamini Kaushal in Ziddi by Ashok Kumar. Thereafter there has been no looking back for the ‘evegreen’ debonair actor, who went on to star in over 100 movies, from 1946 till now. The never-say-stop ‘young’ man is ready with his next film, Chargesheet, which will hit the screen very soon. Click here to read more
