Let Indie take you to a OBVIOUSLY TOTALLY FAKE & MAKE-BELIEVE ‘List of Highest B.O. Earning films’, this for THE YEAR 1977! 1. .Shirdi Ke Sai Baba 2. .Karm 3. .Anurodh 4. .Chhailla babu 5. .Tinku 6. .Hatyara 7. .Aashiq Hoon Baharon Ka 8. .Apnapan 9. .Agent Vinod 10. .Swami 11. .Priyatama 12. .Gharonda 13.Continue reading “‘THE STORY OF INDIA’…..VIA INDIAN CINEMA…& IT’S POSSIBILITIES. (HAVE A FUN READ)”
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THE “MONARCH” WHO GAMED THE BIGGEST MOVIE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD ! – THE “DREAM MACHINE” WHO CRACKED THE BOLLYWOOD CODE! – THE UNTOLD “90’s SMALL TOWN SINGLE SCREEN STORY” !
Mithun’s film career summation is incomplete, w/o a blog on his “Dream Factory” that actually landed up downright beating the entire (so-called) A-Grade Bollywood system of 1990’s at their own game..& at literally a fraction of the cost! The story behind Mithun Chakraborty becoming the highest Bollywood earner/tax payer, thru the entire latter half ofContinue reading “THE “MONARCH” WHO GAMED THE BIGGEST MOVIE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD ! – THE “DREAM MACHINE” WHO CRACKED THE BOLLYWOOD CODE! – THE UNTOLD “90’s SMALL TOWN SINGLE SCREEN STORY” !”
BOLLYWOOD’S BIGGEST EVER BOX-OFFICE KILLER- THE 80’s VIDEO CASSETTE BOOM.
Our research into 80’s Box-office collections, threw up some near-bewildering observations, in form of notably lower box-office blockbusters, or lack of huge blockbusters, worthy of a place in The All-Time Lists, during this era. Given that audience nos. had only increased with no cultural shift away from movie-watching seen, there had to be some missingContinue reading “BOLLYWOOD’S BIGGEST EVER BOX-OFFICE KILLER- THE 80’s VIDEO CASSETTE BOOM.”
THE MOST FRIGHTENING STORY, THAT WAS NEVER TOLD! … A STORY OF- THE MOST SUCCESSFUL HEROINE IN THE HISTORY OF HINDI CINEMA -WHO NEVER ACTED AGAIN!
If there ever was a narration,that’d get both men & women, of any moderate to extreme propensity,equally agitated,& moved to grief. Listen to this unbelievably true story- A 14 yr old girl is spotted on her way back from school,by a big time producer looking for strikingly new never-before-seen type faces, for his magnum opusContinue reading “THE MOST FRIGHTENING STORY, THAT WAS NEVER TOLD! … A STORY OF- THE MOST SUCCESSFUL HEROINE IN THE HISTORY OF HINDI CINEMA -WHO NEVER ACTED AGAIN!”
THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FILM-MAKING FAMILY IN THE HISTORY OF HINDI CINEMA ! – THE RAMSAY BROTHERS! – …A HOUSE, THAT TURNED AGE-OLD INDIAN FILM CONVENTION ON IT’S HEAD..LITERALLY & FIGURATIVELY!
How else does one describe a joint film-making family, a house (not speaking in a flashy corporate giant sorta way, literally one single physical house), that produces or directs (or both in many cases) 50 films on the whole, 35 of them exclusively in the horror genre, & outta just these 35 (discounting the otherContinue reading “THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FILM-MAKING FAMILY IN THE HISTORY OF HINDI CINEMA ! – THE RAMSAY BROTHERS! – …A HOUSE, THAT TURNED AGE-OLD INDIAN FILM CONVENTION ON IT’S HEAD..LITERALLY & FIGURATIVELY!”
‘STAR REPORTS’ AT THE INDIES ALL-TIME BOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS !
I) RAJESH KHANNA – 👑 86 OFFICIAL RAJESH KHANNA FILMS IN INDIES ALL-TIME BLOCKBUSTERS LIST 👑 !!!!!! Folks, guess how many films in TOP 100 BOLLY BLOCKBUSTERS OF ALL TIME’?! 36!!!!!! Incl 8 in Top 10, 12 in Top 15, 19 in Top 50 ! & 24 in Top 55! MOREOVER, 💥💥 WITH 71 FILMSContinue reading “‘STAR REPORTS’ AT THE INDIES ALL-TIME BOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS !”
THE STORY OF -THE BIGGEST, GREATEST, LONGEST-LASTING, & MOST SAFELY-GUARDED COLD WAR, IN BOLLYWOOD HISTORY!
“Italian is the proper language for opera. All educated people agree on that”, goes a line in ‘Amadeus’. Sanjeev Kumar was born 4 yrs before Rajesh Khanna, & grew up around the same small Bhuleshwar-Thakurdwar area of South Bombay. Being older,naturally rose to faster prominence in “INT”,a umbrella network of theater artists & prodn housesContinue reading “THE STORY OF -THE BIGGEST, GREATEST, LONGEST-LASTING, & MOST SAFELY-GUARDED COLD WAR, IN BOLLYWOOD HISTORY!”
THE ONLY BLOT ON RAJESH’S IMPECCABLE CAREER PLAYLIST – OR MAYBE NOT AT ALL ! .. OF THE LOVE LETTER NONE HAD COURAGE TO POSTMARK.
Have at times openly wondered for this song > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqdNqBA44Bg Different people have different tastes, the more colorfully vibrant choose (Indies) Shammi Kapoor playlist overall, oldest traditional generation peaks into Raj, oldies in fun mode take Dev any day of any week, & those with artistic bent loop Saigal alone. But if were a playlist,Continue reading “THE ONLY BLOT ON RAJESH’S IMPECCABLE CAREER PLAYLIST – OR MAYBE NOT AT ALL ! .. OF THE LOVE LETTER NONE HAD COURAGE TO POSTMARK.”
THE FEMALE ‘ANAND’ !
We all remember Rajesh Khanna’s extremely famous turn as the, to die for charmer, in 1971’s ‘Anand’. We also know how Dir Hrishikesh Mukherjee had initially planned to make this film with the man who’s real life persona he’d based this film initially on, Raj Kapoor. (A few lesser people would also know how KishoreContinue reading “THE FEMALE ‘ANAND’ !”
MEENA KUMARI – THE CLASS SINGER !
I bet lotsa folks would ‘ve been wondering to themselves. for over year or so, since placed Meena Kumari among the Top 500 Bollywood Singers Of All Time, an honor denied to most professional singers post the 80s. So here’s some more content to back up that assertion.. Turns out Meena ji has an equalContinue reading “MEENA KUMARI – THE CLASS SINGER !”
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