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Since perfecting or mastering the All-Time Superhits (Albums) List, is turning out to be a more complicated affair than initially thot, even at Indies, & may yet take few more days…here’s some top knotch entt for eager fans. The greatest dance number of Hindi Cinema ! Ofcourse classical dance buffs may well knitpick to argueContinue reading “THE GREATEST DANCE SONG OF INDIAN CINEMA !”

Since autumn is upon us, thot to share few most fascinating tales related to the ‘season of renewal’..when old gives way, to be replaced (within itself) by new, fresh vibrancy. The Raj Kapoor-Nargis love affair is stuff of folklore, & hence gossip galore too, known to most in connection with Indian entt..This is a storyContinue reading “OF HIGH HEELS HIGH CLASS..& OLD BOLLYWOOD.”

Where geniuses recommended geniuses as replacements, not once but three times within the same story! Story being – Rajesh Khanna had just announced to the world, after his mega successful year 1969, arguably the greatest singular year for a single artist, & one of his 6-7 consecutive years that saw him deliver ~ 50 films,Continue reading “KISHORE AND RAFI – OF BOLLYWOOD’S BIGGEST ELEPHANTS & IT’S MOST SUCCESSFUL STORY EVER.”

The story on a song from this same film bears good infotaining value to music-lovers over the process of the most legendary ever song creations..Twas known that no song would enter King’s film, w/o his explicit & considered approval. In keeping with that ethic, Dir of “MJS’, Ravikant Nagaich, gave out a rough cut ofContinue reading “ANECDOTAL LINKS TO THE ANATOMY OF “GENIUS MUSICIANS””

An interesting observation that’s come to light, whilst scrolling thru Youtube content online, over the yrs. The most extraordinarily general or noticeably so, slew of hateful or hate messaging via video, spouting most absurd & humiliating theories about Bollywood’s 2 big greats, Dilip Kumar & Rajesh Khanna, degrading & for certain cases trivializing & lampooningContinue reading “OF THE SPIRITUAL – “THE INDESTRUCTIBLE DAMS” OF BOLLYWOOD !”

Attraction of professional arts,for largest part,as-‘Legitimized seller of “love” as product of livelihood!’. Ofcourse,therein,love has-own range of depths/shallows,& varied duality,to contend. A great precipice,to start exploring..but c/f from it,an #art,fewer know or sustain. For- Many can teach u getting beaut bodies,few on beaut thots,but hardly any abt beaut feelings. Like asking for way to local(small-bigContinue reading “JO TUMHE HO PASAND..USS ZAMANE KI BAAT KARENGE – THE BLOG DILIP KUMAR (SUPPOSEDLY) LIKED! – REPOSTING MY BLOG: ‘HISTORY OF HINDI CINEMA – A QUALITATIVE OVERVIEW’”

Another lovely never-before-heard story on Dilip Kumar, & his spl bond with Ashok Kumar. This is of the very earliest of times, early 1940s. Yusuf had been seen in a military canteen in Pune where was commissioned to lay his fruit stall, from his own fruit farm…by Devika Rani, the owner of Bombay Talkies, India’sContinue reading “A SIMMERING TALE OF ETERNAL FILM BROTHERS.”

We shall not name anyone, in respect of the high names involved & also as these are mere allegations even from a respectable publication, & be best to take it as hearsay, & for entt value. So story goes that, Emperor Rajesh Khanna’s film was slated for release within the month, & was almost certainContinue reading “OF THE CAESAR AND THE ENVY.”

Time to share some interesting tales, on Indian Cinema’s Forever King of Romance, before releasing his absolutely mindblowing lifetime playlist. Shammi Kapoor, a degree college student, was asked by his dad, the theatre doyen Prithviraj Kapoor (many would’ve seen his age-old name prominently positioned at the very middle, no less, of Indie’s 60s Actors standings),Continue reading “THE ENCOUNTER THAT BIRTHED INDIA’S ELVIS !”

The all-round writer of Hindi Cinema. The bts hero of masses & classes ! —Anand Bakshi And his immortal all-consuming final words, to his friends & fans- “Main koi barf nahi hoon, jo pighal jaunga.Mai koi harf nahi hoon, jo badal jaunga.Main toh jadoo hoon, jadoo hoon, main chal jaunga “. 🙏 Seems Rajesh KhannaContinue reading “NO. 1 KI NO. 1 LIKHI DASTAAN – OF THE ‘ANAND’ OF INDIAN MUSIC !”