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September 10, 2017
Samina Naqvi
Cinema

Tragedy King Dilip Kumar, an Icon of Bollywood, a Charming Actor

Dilip Kumar was born Muhammad Yusuf Khan in Qissa Khawani Bazaar, in Peshawar, Pakistan. His father was a fruit merchant and owned large orchards in Peshawar and Devlali in...

July 9, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Guru Dutt, Sanjeev Kumar and Bimal Roy, Three Great Film Personalities, Were Born This Week

Three great film personalities celebrate their birthdays this week. While Guru Dutt was a brilliant filmmaker, his personal life was a mess – possibly the tragic heroes he portrayed...

June 27, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

The Wedding

Humourist Soumya takes a dig at the cross-cultural wedding of a Bong and a Punjabi. The cultural differences were sharply magnified to the woes of each side – later...

June 3, 2017
Samina Naqvi
Cinema

Bimal Roy Challenged the Taboos through his Cinema of Social Realism

Samina, a movie buff, talks about the life and times of the celebrated filmmaker, Bimal Roy. His cinema of social realism challenged the taboos that gripped the society then....

April 6, 2016
Arindam Roy
Potpourri

Smitten Atul!

Love means different things to different people. Some like Atul can lay their lives too. Arindam reminisces a real life incident, many moons ago. We were newbie in the Allahabad...

Tragedy King Dilip Kumar, an Icon of Bollywood, a Charming Actor

Guru Dutt, Sanjeev Kumar and Bimal Roy, Three Great Film Personalities, Were Born This Week

The Wedding

Bimal Roy Challenged the Taboos through his Cinema of Social Realism

Smitten Atul!

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