Archive for Actors & Actresses
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) …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …