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Truly said, that it is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh. A hard luck story skilfully told seldom fails to give your listeners moist tears, but you require a special kind of skill to narrate a story that can send your listeners rippling with laughter. So, […]
Deepa Mehta’s film ‘Water’ (2005), which was not allowed to be shot in India by a handful of fundamentalists, was a trenchant commentary on the pathetic condition of widows living in Varanasi in the pre-independence era. ‘Water’ also depicted how deep- seated social evils are not so easy to eradicate […]
Depiction of patriotic feelings and sentiments of the Indian masses in Hindi films dates back to the time when India was still a subject nation under British Rule. There was no censor board in those days, but still the British administrators kept a hawk-eyed vigil on the content of each […]
Almost everywhere in the world today, people are living to advanced old age, thanks to phenomenal progress made by medical science. Naturally, the list of centenarians all over the world is now growing apace. In the light of these facts, one thinks that it was a little too early for […]
There was a time when sad, tearful film songs on the plight of the poor were quite popular. But now it is very rare to hear such songs in the present-day films. May be it i sbecause of the changes that have been taking place in our socioeconomic life over […]
Do you enjoy listening to vintage Hindi film songs? If you do, then you must have heard some evergreen and unforgettable melodies rendered by Pankaj Mullick, K L Saigal, K C. Dey, Kanan Bala, Rajkumari, Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Talat Mahmood, Hemant Kumar and other yesteryear singers. Ever wondered who […]
