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Manmohan – Memories
My father was quite lucky when it came to films. He did not have to struggle, the industry was very kind to him. He also came from a well to do family, who had their own business. He was born and brought up in Jamshedpur. Totally different from his other …
Iftekhar – Memories
He was born in Jalandhar. They were a big family. He has three brothers and two sisters. They were very well off, because his father held a very high position there. Ifti has always been a very talented person, but he never dreamt that he would one day be an …
Nighat Sultana – Filmography
[ Back to Nighat Sultana's Menu ] Title Year Producer Director Cast Music Tadap (U) 1953 F.D.Shaikh Aslam Irani Shimmi, Gulshan Ara, Sudhir, Allaudin, Nighat Sultana Asghar/M.Hussain Umer Marvi (S) 1956 Fazlani Shaikh Hasan Nighat Sultana, Fazlani, Charlie, Bibbo G.Nabi A.Latif Mandi (U) 1956 Nisar Ahmed Aziz Ahmed Khurshid, Ayaz, …
Navin Nischol – Memories
I started my career with Saawan Bhadon. Incidentally, it was Rekha’s first film as well. Though she was doing a few films with Biswajeet and others, she had hit the headlines by then. She was the first heroine in Indian cinema, to pose for a kiss, for a leading foreign …
Rajendra Kumar – Memories
My grandfather was the only Indian who held the post of a military contractor. He made tonnes of money. And my father, who settled in Karachi, started his own textile business. But during Partition, we had to leave all the land and property behind and were ruined. However, when we …
Vintage Tidbits – A bet on Madhubala (1954)
A bet of a thousand rupees was struck at a fashionable restaurant in Bombay—the subject of the bet being the beauteous Madhubala. The two parties concerned were Ramesh Chandra, producer of “Meenar”, and the Calcutta distributor of the film. The latter asked the producer if it would be possible to …
Vintage Tidbits – Indian actress Nigar Sultana denying reports of her marriage with Pakistani actor Ishrat (Darpan Kumar)
One of the most boisterous Press conferences ever to be held in Bombay’s filmdom was the one held on June 13 – 1954, when gazelle-eyed Nigar Sultana denied reports of her marriage to Pakistani actor Ishrat (Darpan Kumar). Nigar’s outburst against “blood-sucking” producers and relatives was spiced with the choicest …
Jayshree T. (Jayshree Talpade) – Filmography
Movie Year Producer Director Cast Music Director Goonj Uthi Shehnai 1959 Prakash Pictures Vijay Bhatt Rajendra Kumar, Ullhas, Manmohan Krishna, Leela Misra, Prem Dhawan, Krishna Kumari, I. S. Johar, Ameeta, Anita Guha, Jayshree T. Vasant Desai Zameen Ke Tare 1960 Chandra Movies Chandulal J. Shah Motilal, Achla Sachdev, Daisy Irani, …
Jayshree T. (Jayshree Talpade) – Interview
Sometimes, life gives you something but holds back that vital something else. Today though, Jayshree T has no grouses against her destiny. A swinging film career then, a family of her own now, work that continues to come in… So what, that she was never a Hindi film heroine! The …
Achala Sachdev – Filmography
[ Back to Achala Sachdev's Menu ] Movie Year Producer Director Cast Music Director Dilruba 1950 Lotus Orient Films Dwarka Khosla Cuckoo, Rehana, Yakub, Balam, Achla Sachdev, Gogia Pasha, Dev Anand Gyan Dutt Kashmir 1951 Rajdeep Pictures Rajendra Jolly Badri Prasad, Kuldeep Kaur, Nirupa Roy, Kamal Kapoor, Aroon, Achla Sachdev, …
Indian Film Database - 1958
John Cawas - Filmography
Indian Postage Stamps - Music Directors
Munawwar Sultana - Filmography
Pyaar Impossible (2010)