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Sunday, February 5th, 2012 by
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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 …

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Monday, January 30th, 2012 by
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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 …

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Saturday, December 24th, 2011 by
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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? …

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Monday, December 5th, 2011 by
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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 …

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Sunday, December 4th, 2011 by
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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 …

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Monday, November 28th, 2011 by
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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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Saturday, November 19th, 2011 by
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Vimmi – Profile

[ Back to Vimmi's Menu ] Slim, swathed in chiffon and cloaked in an air of mystery, she caught B.R.Chopra’s eye. He couldn’t look away. He requested his host, music director Ravi, to introduce him to the beautiful woman rightaway. Close-up, she was even more bewitching. They chatted the rest …

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Monday, October 10th, 2011 by
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Durga Khote – Profile

Durga Khote was an accomplished thespian and an actress with a strong personality. Born in a well­ known family of Bombay— her father was—a–famous lawyer and her brother a well known barrister – the young Vita Laud (Durga Khote) was educated, like her brother and sister, at Cathedral High School …

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Thursday, August 11th, 2011 by
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Veena – Profile

[ Back to Veena's Menu ] If ever there was a competition for the most beautiful woman on the screen, it would undoubtedly narrow down to two actresses—Veena and Na­seem. And the result would be a close tie. God Almighty Must have had a great deal of time to spare …

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Saturday, July 23rd, 2011 by
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Meenu Mumtaz – Profile

 [ Back to Meenu Mumtaz's Menu ] Her Career Beginnings Mumtaz Ali’s (Meenu Mumtaz’s father) errant, drunken ways prevented him from securing a job. Although he was famous as a dancer and character- artist in films, and many in the industry wanted him in their films, they avoided signing him …

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