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PaathShaala (2010)
Recent times in Bollywood have seen filmmakers producing movies which are based on the concept of the flawed education system which children and teenagers are trying to cope with. Some movies projected this concept realistically, managing to capture the hearts and minds of many people, and hopefully teaching some much needed lessons along the way. ...
Housefull (2010)
There are many reasons to watch a particular movie. The star cast, the direction and the plot are some of them. When none of these antics work, the film is considered a failure. And here`s a rare movie that works on all three fronts. Housefull has a killer star cast: one look at the movie`s ...
C.I.D. (1956)
This is one of Hindi cinema’s few experiments with film noir. It engages with the genre fully, down to its rainy night street scenes and relentless emphasis on icons of modernity, such as telephones, cars, guns, newspapers and houses with sliding panels, trapdoors, etc. Inder Raj Anand took elements of film noir and mixed them ...
Umrao Jaan (1981)
This film is based on the Urdu novel Umrao Jaan Ada by Mirza Mohammad Hadi ‘Ruswa’, published in 1899, which presents the story of Umrao Jaan, a courtesan of Lucknow and Kanpur, as supposedly true. It is set at the last moment of Lucknow’s glory: the 1857 uprisings occur in the novel when Umrao Jaan ...
Pakeezah (1971)
While courtesans feature in many films, mostly in minor roles, the two great films in which they are the main heroines are set in the nineteenth- century Avadhi court of Lucknow (Umrao Jaan), and in Delhi and the Punjabi princely state of Patiala in the early years of the twentieth century (Pakeezah), as these were ...
Masoom (1982)
This story of an illegitimate child is a real weepie, which picks up the theme of forgiveness that runs through so many Hindi movies. It is said to be based on Man, Woman and Child (1982), a film adapted from the book of the same name by Erich Segal of Love Story fame, although, in ...
Omkara (2006)
Vishal Bhardwaj’s compelling adaptation of Othello, released theatrically in the US and UK in summer 2006, sticks more closely to Shakespeare than his Maqbool (2003) followed Macbeth, yet still makes several inspired changes, the first in its opening scene. On a parched hillside in Uttar Pradesh, Bhardwaj’s lago, Langda, tells a dim, wimpish bridegroom, Raju ...
Mere Mehboob (1963)
Cast: Ashok Kumar, Sadhana, Rajendra Kumar, Nimmi Director: H.S. Rawail Music: Naushad Lyrics: Shakeel Badayuni Capsule Review: Mere Mehboob is a love triangle set within a decadent aristocratic Muslim ambience, and is the best known example of the archaic genre known as the ‘Muslim Social.’ It is a painstakingly put together ritual of courtship filled ...
Bambai Ka Babu (1960)
Cast: Dev Anand, Suchitra Sen Director: Raj Khosla Music: S.D. Burman Lyrics: Majrooh Sultanpuri Capsule Review: Bambai Ka Babu tells the dark and forbidden story of a criminal (Dev Anand) who seeks shelter in the home of a man he murders and falls in love with the murdered man’s sister. Though mawkish in parts, Bambai ...
Anuradha (1960)
Cast: Balraj Sahni, Leela Naidu, Abhi Bhattacharya Director: Hrishikesh Mukhenee Music: Pandit Ravi Shankar Lyrics: Shailendra Capsule Review: A progressive drama, Anuradha, has stood the test of time with remarkable ease. The core of the theme—what Mallika Sherawat in Murder 44 years later described as the abject loneliness of a married woman—is splendidly intact. Leela ...
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Pakistani Film Database - 1966:
TITLE
PRODUCER
DIRECTOR
MUSIC
CAST
Box-Office Status
Al-Hilal (U)
M.R.Khan
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Mukh-o-Mukhosh (1956):
1956 was an eventful year in the history of Pakistani Cinema because it saw the birth of Bengali...
Rushdi Abaza (1927 - 1982):
Born of an Italian mother and an Egyptian father, Rushdi Abaza was the scion of a respectable ol...
Suroor Barabankvi:
Who can forget those soft words, those pleasing and lilting tunes and those memorable numbers li...
Laaj (2003):
Our history, or more accurately our recent history, has an overbearing effect on us. The experie...
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