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Sunday, November 29th, 2009 by admin
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Waris (1954)

An inheritance melodrama about Kunwar (Mahmood), the son of zamindar Rana Himmat Singh (Sethi). Kunwar marries Shobha (Suraiya) and is disinherited, forcing him to join the army during WW2. When he is reported lost and presumed dead, a repentant Rana invites Shobha to stay with him. However, it is Kanta (Nadira), a young woman betrayed ...

. . . . . Drama

Saturday, November 28th, 2009 by admin
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Afsar (1950)

Synopsis The journalist Kapur (Dev Anand) comes to a village run by corrupt politicians led by the village tehsildar (Kanhaiyalal). They mistake him for a government inspector and treat him like a VIP. The expose of rural politics is intercut with a love story between Kapur and the tehsildar’s sister Bimala (Suraiya). Review Afsar, Navketan’s ...

. . . . Comedy

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 by admin
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Waqt (1965)

Waqt was a landmark in many ways: it is a multi-starrer with four main heroes and two major heroines; it set a trend for showing the lifestyles of the super-rich; it is a ‘lost and found’ film, a storyline that became a favorite in the 1970s; and it has memorable songs. A prosperous merchant, Lala ...

. . . . . . . . . Drama

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 by admin
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Taxi Driver (1954)

Synopsis Dev Anand’s best-known ‘proletarian’ performance as a taxi driver in a story inspired by film noir. Mangal (DevAnand) rescues Mala (Kalpana Kartik) from some hoodlums. This act of chivalry leads to a series of encounters with a violent criminal gang who, later in the film, steal Mangal’s cab to commit a bank robbery. Mala, ...

. . . . Crime

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 by admin
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Mother India (1957)

Mother India (1957), the Indian Gone with the Wind, is Mehboob’s most famous film and has achieved the status of an Indian cinematic epic. Mother India took three years to make, and is actually a remake of one of Mehboob’s first films, Aurat (Woman, 1940), starring the wonderful actress Sardar Akhtar (who had already worked ...

. Drama

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 by admin
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Purana Mandir (1984)

In 1984, the Ramsays brothers (generally credited with introducing the horror movie to India) began work on Purana Mandir (The Old Temple), which proved a watershed in the short history of Hindi horror. Its main setting, an ancient palace at Jehangir, about live hours drive from Bombay, was perfect for the story. “Even you shot ...

. Horror

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Khazanchi (1941)

This is an example of the work of the studio in Lahore that was a centre of the Indian film industry before partition and is now the home of ‘Lollywood’ or the Pakistani film industry. A huge hit, it is one of the films that helped to establish the musical style of the Hindi film ...

. . Drama . Drama

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Phool (1944)

Phool is not yet available on DVD or VCD but it is the first of the very few movies made by one of India’s great directors, K. Asif, whose Mughal-e Azam is rightly regarded as one of the best Indian films ever made. Phool is fascinating, as it mixes several ‘Islamicate’ genres, being partly a ...

. . . . . Historical

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Elaan (1947)

Story of two half-brothers, the evil Sajjad (Himalaywala) and the good Javed (Surendra). Exploited since his childhood by the richer and crueller branch of the family, represented by Sajjad and his mother (Zebunissa), Javed loses his beloved (Munawar Sultana), bought by Sajjad’s family wealth. The fortunes of the two brothers change; Sajjad gambles away his ...

. . . . Drama

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Babul (1950)

Synopsis Set in a small village, Babul is a story of a young postmaster Ashok (Dilip Kumar). He stays in the house of a former postmaster and meets his daughter Bela (Nargis). Bela falls deeply in love, dreaming of a life with him. Meanwhile Dilip develops feelings for the Zamindar’s daughter Usha (Munawar Sultana), who ...

. . . Drama

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