Special screening of Balraj Sahni's movie at museum

Mega gala events, full of glitter and glamour, have begun to mark 2013 as the birth centenary of Indian cinema with the 1913 release of Dadasaheb Phalke's silent film Raja Harishchandra. However, going relatively unnoticed is the fact that 2013 is ...

Balraj Sahni had the rare ability of transforming mediocre films with magnetic performances, says ranjan das gupta. And yet most Hindi film directors of the time failed to use his talents to the hiltIT was 1948. A packed house was watching Dharti Ke ...

There used to be so many nature songs from films that delighted audiences. Alas, says ac tuli, in today's films we seldom get to hear a number that glorifies creationOUR cine-going masses have a fascination for film songs. These are, doubtless, a ...

Talking to his son Pariskhit, Karan Bhardwaj discovered that legendary actor Balraj Sahni empathised with others plight on and off screen The eighth edition of Habitat Film Festival took off on Saturday, with a tributary retrospective of legendary ...

Dance Classical ballet Shriram Bharitya Kala Kendra will present a festival of ballet inspired from characters like Karna, Meera and Abhimanyu. The ballet dedicated to Karna highlights the Mahabharata hero's dilemma, who was denied rightful place in the ...

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Alam Ara was the first talkie film in India. The film also introduced songs in films. The one constant in the ten decades of Indian cinema has been change. Right from the release of the first feature film Raja Harishchandra to today's age of digital ...

), popularly known as David, was a Jewish-Indian actor. In a career spanning four decades, he played mostly character roles, in over 110 films, including memorable ones like Gol Maal (1979) and Baton Baton Mein (1979). Thanks to his short stature ...