Hindi picchers

Mansoor Khan's directorial debut Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak released 25 years ago today, April 29, with then upcoming actors Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla, starring in their first major roles. Fondly referred to as QSQT by cinephiles, the film went on to create box office history and catapulted the lead actors to superstardom overnight.Sukanya Verma revisits the magical film. There's a funny story behind how I watched Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak for the first time. In 1988, when the ...

In darkened cinema halls across the nation, during the time of grainy black-and-white movies, as the extremely effervescent Nigar Sultana lip-synced Mere piya gaye Rangoon, kiya hai vahan se telephoone in the superhit film Patanga (1949), the ...

There's this ad film with a voiceover that delivers the now famous tagline, vishwasam, athalley ellam. Long after the faces in the film fade, the voice lingers. This tagline, which has been the butt of jokes, slipped into the lingo. Mammootty used ...

A diehard fan of cinema of the 1980s, director Sajid Khan is attempting to recreate the magic with his "Himmatwala" remake that he says has all the elements of a bygone era - mother-son drama, heroism and, last but not the least, "a grand entry for (lead ...

To commemorate 10 years of the Ashok Kumar Foundation, Jehangir Art Gallery, in South Mumbai, is hosting a week-long exhibition of the veteran actor. The exhibition features artist Jagganath Paul, and was inaugurated by legendary artist Lalita Lajmi, sister of the other legend of Hindi cinema, Guru Dutt. The inauguration was attended by Ashok Kumar's daughter Bharati, her daughter Anuradha Patel and son-in-law Kanwaljeet Singh, and veteran radio announcer Ameen ...