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Do You Know- Which is the NO. 1 PAIR OF 1980s??! RAJESH KHANNA & SRIDEVI! WHO GAVE 5 MASSIVE SUPERHITS TOGETHER IN THIS DECADE! Both utter professionals(even if one few hrs late), & utter introverts-Their chemistry was fascinating & a delight onscreen!

Did You Know- IF STATEMENTS IN BELOW VIDEO (by Deepti Pinniti on CandidMeena Yt Channel) ARE ACCURATE THEN- SRIDEVI WAS MURDERED COZ SHE GOT WIND OF THE PLOT TO ASSASSINATE NARENDRA MODI IN 2018! & Saddest part is- Even PM Modi is helpless in thwarting the system’s machinations in it’s investigation! 👇

(As Binaca has proved to be a not so reliable partner, Indies has decided to go at it alone, & conduct its own ‘shruti’-survey, in the above category, parameters being subconscious understanding/knowledge of top music selling films, weighted per ranking, & Indies assessment of individual singers’ contribution to such sales.) 👇

MAESTRO CORNER! – Indies Top 165 Greats’ Films, From World Cinema’s No. 1 & No. 5 Greatest Actors! No.1 RAJESH KHANNA – 120 Films -115 Films in Top 1800 (of Indies Top 3600 Hindis) & 100 Films in Top 1600 & 83 Films in Bolly’s Top 1000 !&No.5 DILIP KUMAR – 45 Films in TopContinue reading “MAESTRO CORNER! – Indies Top 165 Greats’ Films, From World Cinema’s No. 1 & No. 5 Greatest Actors! … – No.1 RAJESH KHANNA – 120 FILMS -115 Films in Top 1800 (of Indies Top 3600 Hindis) & 100 Films in Top 1600 & 83 Films in Bolly’s Top 1000 ! … & – No.5 DILIP KUMAR – 45 FILMS in Top 1800 (of Indies Top 3600 Hindis) & 38 Films in Top 1000 !”

Both R. D. Burman & Irrfan Khan, as internationally popular celebrities, are both accurate in saying that Rajesh Khanna’s films had a very engrossing script & story board, without exception, all throughout his 25-30 yr lead career, his career most uniquely spanning a unique hold over 4 distinct decades of Hindi Cinema! For if justContinue reading “RAJESH KHANNA’S NOVEL, SUPER-APPEALING, LOTS ELEVATING, AIR-TIGHT SCRIPTS!”

The story of Guru Dutt’s death, arguably the greatest actor-director combine India’s ever seen, ranked no. 145 on the Indies All-Time Greatest Indian Personalities list btw(!), husband to erstwhile popular playback singer Geeta Dutt, & elder brother of film director Atmaram, has fascinated all Indian film lovers for the past 60 yrs, ever since hisContinue reading “TABAHIYAN PHIR BHI AYENGI, SHIKAR PHIR SANG LAYENGI. JAB JAB CHAUDHVIN KE CHAND, KAAGAZ KE PHOOL KHILAYENGI. AUR KHUBSURAT INSAAF KI DASTAANEN BAAP-DADAON REHTE PYASI HI REH JAYENGI. – THE SHAMEFUL END TO THE GURU DUTT-GEETA DUTT STORY – THE LIKELY MYSTERIOUS HEART ATTACK TURNED ACCIDENTAL DEATH TURNED SUICIDE! – THE STORY OF THE MOST WRONGED WOMAN OF BOLLYWOOD !”

(Repost from June 2022, from previous id, to further h/l how strict public broadcasting norms were till 1975, & how post-Emergency times cut PM’s hands off & gave rise to the free-for-all (in every way) we know over past half decade) Few incidents from film related history, contemplating on the ‘art imitating life or theContinue reading “BOLLYWOOD LIFE & TIMES (& PRACTICES) BEFORE 1975-77 !”

This strange (below) Aajtak video clip caught my attention, & got me googling a while. And what came of it was highly interesting to say the least! As it turns out, Lata Mangeshkar on average sang only 2 songs per year for R.D. Burman all life/career, while he on average composed 36 songs/year for 36Continue reading “LATA & RD & KISHORE – THE FINAL CHAPTER (NEE DHARAMYUDH)! ……. OF THE MYSTERIOUS HEART ATTACKS BOTH KISHORE & RD WERE AFRAID OF! …… OF 1985: THE YEAR THAT CHANGED BOLLYWOOD FOREVER!”

A strange dichotomy in press or media workings from 50’s India, came to our attention at Indies, making us investigate it’s roots, & the revelations from it & deeper emerging links to the Indian panorama of then, is what’s presented in form of this blog. Now all regular readers of Indie blogs, would’ve taken noticeContinue reading “FURTHER EVIDENCE ON BRITISH DOMINION RAJ IN POST-1947 (SUPPOSEDLY INDEPENDENT) INDIA, VIA ‘MANAGEMENT & ULTIMATE CONTROL’ OVER INDIA’S & THE SUBCONTINENT’S POPULAR COMMUNICATION IE RADIO! ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………THE ‘REAL REASON’ FOR THE RISE TO UNPARALLELED FAME, OF SRI LANKA’S ‘RADIO CEYLON’, OVER INDIA’S ‘ALL INDIA RADIO’!”

The profession of acting & cinema per se, is as widely agreed, going through it’s worst phase ever since inception, the world over, brought on largely by a lack of good quality scripts & emotional ideas, but equally by a dwindling class of acting talent. So thought to share few learnings & revelations of mineContinue reading “BRIEF INSIGHTS INTO ‘METHOD ACTING’ (OR AS MANY EXPERTS CALL ‘METHOD THAT WORKS ACTING’), FROM THE STREAM’S WIDELY REGARDED GREATS (AS KNOWN & POPULAR AMONG INDIAN CONNOISSEURS) – RAJESH KHANNA, DILIP KUMAR, GERARD DEPARDIEU & MARLON BRANDO!”