Benegal’s influence on Indian cinema extended beyond his films, as he was instrumental in shaping the careers of several iconic actors, including Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, and Om Puri. Many of these actors went on to achieve significant success in mainstream Bollywood. Naseeru...
Obviously. Jim Morrison himself would have smiled from heaven had he lived to hear R.D. Burman’s genius use of thecathedral-like organ as a primary instrumental. And sure, the size Rajesh Khanna’s shirt collar warrants its own zipcode and maybe Tanuja could easily hide a dead body in ...
The return isconceived with great splendour: The land green and fertile, musicechoes across the fields and females in colourful clothing sing: ‘Comehome stranger, your country calls you back!’ In the meantime, thedaughter has fallen in love – but not with the man that her father had...
was one of Lata Mangeshkar’s earliest hits in the Bengali music industry, and Bengalis have cherished thecollaboration between Lata and Salilever since this major musical milestone. –Mr. 55 P.S: As an extra tidbit of trivia, it has been said that the only non-classical record found in ...
People tend to have strong feelings one way or another for this film. The music is hands-down fantastic, but the plot tends to be divisive, depending on how you view Guru Dutt’s stance onfemale emancipation in the 1950s. I tend to argue that the film is empowering—his narrative is ...
(Junglee, 1961): The Rafi version of this number is an all-time classic. Although the Lata version is less popular, it is still beautiful in its own right and brings up an interesting point about scales in tandem songs from this era. In almost all cases that I can think of, music ...
was one of Lata Mangeshkar’s earliest hits in the Bengali music industry, and Bengalis have cherished thecollaboration between Lata and Salilever since this major musical milestone. –Mr. 55 P.S: As an extra tidbit of trivia, it has been said that the only non-classical record found in ...