“Babumoshai! Zindagi badi honi chahiye, lambi nahi” he snapped playfully in his intro scene and set the tempo for the story. People laughed through the movie and didn’t even realise when their eyes got moistened uncontrollably as they left the theatres. In the late 1960s, Raj Kapoor fell seriously ill and his friend Hrishikesh Mukherjee... Continue Reading →

When I came to know of a new search engine called Yahoo in the inchoate days of the dot com revolution, I thought it had something to do with Shammi Kapoor for the expression was best associated with him. In fact his iconoclastic Yahoo formed my earliest memory of the actor and it remained the... Continue Reading →

In 1953, when a delegation of the Indian film industry visited the former Soviet Union, they were swept off their feet. People went crazy upon seeing Raj Kapoor and Nargis as they had just come out of theatres after watching Brodigaya, the dubbed version of Awara in Russian and were at splits about the new... Continue Reading →

This post is dedicated to those people who made me a part of their twists, turns, heart-breaks and unions It would not be an overstatement to say that Hindi Cinema has often been about love stories. A love story is not memorable unless there is an element of struggle in it, for that alone build... Continue Reading →