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Raja Sulochana – Profile
Actor and dancer Pilliarchetty Bhakthavatsalam Naidu Rajeevalochana, 77, known simply as Raja Sulochana passed away in her sleep on 5th March, 2013 at her Chennai residence. She was suffering from breathing problems. Two daughters and a son survive her. Raja Sulochana was born on August 15, 1935 at Bezawada (Vijayawada) …
Baburao Krishnarao Mestri aka Baburao Painter (1890 – 1954)
Artist and filmmaker; born to a family of artisans in Kolhapur. Taught himself to paint and sculpt at a young age. Associated in early years with a family- operated photo studio in Mumbai. Circa 1910, Baburao and his cousin Anandrao were hired by Keshavrao Bhonsle’s Lalitkaladarsha Natak Mandali to paint …
Lehri – Profile
Starting in the mid-1950s, Lehri — born Safirullah Siddiqui — was a reliable entertainer for many decades. In his later years he served as a nostalgic reminder about all that had gone wrong with Pakistani cinema and the country in general. The largely urban-based dramas produced soon after independence in …
Reginald Jackson – Profile
Reginald Jackson or Reggie, as he was known on the sets of Mayur Pankh, was grey-eyed, handsome and hefty, with an attractive face and smile and a figure which was all right any way you look at it. Quiet, calm and modest by nature, he could be as tough as …
Shanta Apte – Profile
No film star created as much sensation by her behavior as did Shanta Apte, who was aptly described as “the stormy petrel of the Indian screen.” Now a decade after her death, she seems to have created another sensation. In the Diwali issue of a local Marathi weekly a stage …
Roop Kishore Shorey – Profile
[ Back to R.K. Shorey's Menu ] Hindi and Punjabi director and producer born in Quetta (now in Pakistan). Son of Roshan Lal Shorey, Roop was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and raised by an English governess. He acquired an early interest in Western music and English …
Ranjan – Profile
Histrionics is but one of the attainments of Ranjan, that man of many talents. He is an accomplished dancer and musician, playwright, journalist, critic, scholar, aviator and athlete, a competent painter and, to crown it all ,a magician. How did Ranjan manage to acquire marked proficiency in so many fields? …
Shakuntala – Profile
One of the most popular and talented stars of the Marathi screen, and recently of the Hindi screen as well, Baby Shakuntala, eighteen-year-old veteran of the film world, is a charming, lively girl bubbling with delicious teenage gaiety tempered by attractive moods of demure quietness. Exquisitely petite, this diminutive charmer …
Sandhya – Profile
Among the film stars Sandhya holds a unique place. While all other stars have been free-lancing, some of them working in more than twenty pictures at a time, Sandhya has worked for only one producer in her long and illustrious career. Though she made her debut as back as in …
Sardar Akhtar – Profile
[ Back to Sardar Akhtar's Menu ] It was monsoon time in Gungavati, a tehsil town in Karnataka. Under a big tent a large crowd squatted on the ground. Petromaxes were spreading their bluish silvery light. Glasses of hot South Indian coffee were going round. The humidity of a South …
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