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1943… It was an uncomfortably hot day in Kolhapur. The 10-year-old young girl who was skipping down the road looked happily playful on camera, but actually, she couldn’t wait for the director to call “Cut.” Her father, Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar, had passed away the previous year, and she had accepted the Marathi film, Majha Bal. The song […]
JAGRITI (1954) This path-breaking film won a Certificate of Merit at the National Film Awards. It also bagged the Filmfare Award for Best Film, with Abhi Bhattacharya as the new school superintendent Shekhar, taking home the trophy for Best Supporting Actor. Shekhar, unlike the other teachers, doesn’t believe in punishment. Through songs like “De di […]
With the death of TV actor and Bigg Boss season 13 winner Siddharth Shukla, there has been a wave of mourning among the fans. But the biggest shock has come to his girlfriend and close friend Shehnaaz Gill. Shehnaaz’s father Santokh Singh, reacting to Shehnaaz’s condition, said, “Shehnaaz is not well at all right now, […]
Mumbai court on Wednesday sent Bollywood actor Armaan Kohli to 14-day judicial custody in a drugs case. The Narcotics Control Bureau raided his residence on August 28, following which he was taken to the NCB office for questioning. At the time of his arrest, the actor was found to be in an inebriated state. According […]
After 430 movies, all over the world, Paresh Rawal is all staged for a comeback in Gujarati films with an adaptation of the popular Gujarati play, Dear Father which interestingly was also the play through which he made a comeback in the Gujarati play scene exactly 10 years ago in 2011. Dear Father is an […]
A little-known fact about the superstar Dilip Kumar: he was born in Peshawar, now in Pakistan. Beloved on both sides of the border, Dilip Kumar exemplified the connections and ties of a pre-partition South Asia. In a tweet on Wednesday, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed his condolences at the demise of the Bollywood veteran […]
