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Birthday Special: When Javed Akhtar confessed: 'There aren't too many filmmakers and composers I'm comfortable with'
Subhash •The veteran writer and lyricist added, "No bad language, no grammatically incorrect metres for me. Poets can take liberties but within the given grammatical structures."
Throwback Thursday: When Rekha said this about Amitabh Bachchan- 'I'm not in love with him? Of course I am'
Fp Staff •The revelation came on Simi Garewal's show Rendezvous with Simi Garewal. The diva had a lot of things to add when asked about her equation with Amitabh Bachchan.
Amitabh Bachchan turns 80: A look at 5 best songs sung by Big B
Trendingdesk •Apart from acting, Bachchan also known as the Shahenshah of Indian Cinema has also tried his hands at singing and has given his voice to several compositions, thanks to his powerful baritone.
Happy Birthday Amitabh Bachchan: From Khaike Paan Banaras Wala to Shava Shava, looking at the star's best songs
Trendingdesk •Bachchan is a legacy in himself, and has delivered several classics, thanks to his powerful performances, memorable dialogues, and his deep baritone which makes him stand out from the crowd.
The enduring magic of Yash Chopra’s cinema
Subhash •Yash Chopra never directed any film that he didn’t believe in. Whether it’s arranged marriages, man’s battle with the machine age, corruption in the public sector…they’re all there in Yash Chopra’s cinema.
Let’s Talk About Women | How Ijaazat subverted the established trope of the ideal wife
Sneha Bengani •On the surface, Gulzar designs Rekha’s Sudha much like the quintessential Indian wife as was popular in the 1980s. She is sincere, responsible, dutiful, nurturing, empathetic, and sacrificial. But not in a weepy, long-suffering wife kind of way. She’s no Shobha from Silsila or Pooja from Arth.
Of cameos and casting coups: Where lines between film scripts and gossip magazines blur
Devanshsharma •When cameos meet casting coups, they no longer remain 'guest' appearances. Irrespective of the screen time, they become a crucial part of the story, given the intertextuality and cross-referencing at play.
Revisiting the Bollywood dream sequence: A tour of the world, and within
Devanshsharma •The Bollywood dream sequence helped stretch my imagination in a way that I believed the whole world was within me. This self-sufficiency helped me get through the physical setting I was in, from awkward social gatherings to the confines of my home during the pandemic.
Sagar Sarhadi, known for writing films like Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, dies aged 88 in Mumbai
•Sagar Sarhadi breathed his last at his residence in Mumbai's Sion, his nephew, filmmaker Ramesh Talwar said.
Yash Raj Films completes 50 years: Picking the best album of every decade, from Kabhie Kabhi to Ishaqzaade
Devanshsharma •Just like its movies, the music of Yash Raj Films has endured over the years, with albums like Silsila, Darr, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, and Veer-Zaara.