A time to shine

In this special series, we re-visit great Hindi film classics. Today, we look back at Rekha, Farooque Shaikh and Naseeruddin Shah's 1981 film Umrao Jaan. Does breathtaking have an expiry date? Not in Umrao Jaan's case, no. No matter how many times I watch Muzaffar Ali's tour de force Umrao Jaan, I am overcome with a sense of awe and elation. There's a paralysing quality to his visuals, resembling living art work, which speaks its own language as exhilarating as the Urdu-laced parlance of ...

We look at what sets the two films apart Dir: Sai Paranjpye Director: David Dhawan Cast: Farooque Shaikh, Deepti Naval, Ravi Baswani, Rakesh Bedi, Leela Mishra and Saeed Jaffrey. Cast: Ali Zafar, Tapsee Pannu, Divyendu Sharma, Siddharth, Lillette ...

Tags: Farooque Shaikh, Chashme Buddoor re-release, Sai Paranjpye Mumbai: Restoring classics is like "restoring heritage", says seasoned actor Farooque Shiekh, who rues that many good films perished but is happy over steps being taken to save other ...

While most actors in B-Town can't stop rattling off names of the hot wheels in their garage, Farooque Shaikh definitely stands out from

Adaab. I am free now," says Farooque Shaikh on the phone. The veteran actor sounds happy, having recently relived his screen romance with "dear friend" and co-star of seven films, Deepti Naval. In Geeta and Avinash Singh's relationship tale Listen Amaya, ...

Centuries ago, there was the tradition of the kathakar, the travelling storyteller. Indian cinema, now in its 100th year, is but a continuation of this tradition, which took wonderful shape at the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF). Not unlike a ...

A still from the 1975 movie Chupke Chupke It's raining remakes in Bollywood. The latest classic film to be given an update is Hrishikesh Mukerjee's 1975 comedy of errors Chupke Chupke, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore and Jaya ...

LARKANA, April 24: Sui gas supply to Larkana and Qambar-Shahdadkot districts as well as Garhi Yaseen town of Shikarpur district was suspended soon after a portion of the 18-inch-diameter pipeline near Talbani village, some 12 kilometres from here, ...

KARACHI: The Parliamentary Board of Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) Sindh, headed by Ex-MNA Faryal Talpur on Monday issued the list of candidates for National and Sindh Assembly constituencies of the province. The constituency-wise ...