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Sharmila Tagore

Sharmila’s supreme achievement lies in her being that rare heroine who triumphantly criss-crossed image boundaries. From being Bengal’s most ogled export who stirred up both the hormones of a generation as well as a hornet’s nest when she dropped her clothes, she next shocked us with what she ‘was’ wearing …

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Mumtaz

[ Back to Mumtaz's Menu ] Mumtaz realised an impossible dream. In an industry notorious for its nonegalitarianism, she was that rare actress who rose from non-featured roles to become the most saleable actress of the early 70s, through sheer charm, sunny good humour and fiesty sexuality. Though Mumtaz, with …

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Sanjeev Kumar

Sanjeev Kumar asserted the primacy of talent over looks, dancing skills and other such commercial considerations. He established a prodigious reputation as an actor par excellence by doing an amazing spectrum of roles. Which other actor could have been accepted as Jaya Bhaduri’s lover in Anamika (’73), within months of …

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Sadhana

The serendiptuous 60s — the decade of all those popular, remunerative musicals. No heroine defined this decade better than the luminously lovely Sadhana. Not only was she a basic talisman for many of these 60s bits of ephemera but what gave Sadhana the edge over contemporaries like Asha Parekh and …

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Mala Sinha – Profile

[ Back Mala Sinha's Menu ] Behind the wrought iron gates of her multi-storeyed bungalow in Bandra, Mala Sinha does not live locked in any ivory tower. Mala is astringently honest when she reminisces about her career: “I was not particularly good looking like Madhubala. All I had going for …

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Shammi Kapoor

The on screen lives of most the 50s heroes was one long agony of self-repression till Shammi Kapoor struck like lightning with his brash, cocky swagger and his eagerness to rebuke convention. His rebel yell, ‘Yahoo’ is not a word that will be found in any dictionary; but with this …

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Nutan

She left her budding film career mid-way to join a Swiss finishing school — La Chatelainie. On her return she unabashedly agreed to wear a swimsuit (Delhi Ka Thug), transmitting shock waves that reverberated for long. She battled her mother in court over misappropriation of funds. She slapped Sanjeev Kumar …

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Vyjayanthimala

Danseuse extraordinaire, Vyjayanthimala’s greatest legacy to cinema is that today it is de rigeur for every girl who enters the Hindi film industry to be an accomplished dancer. Yet there was more to light-footed Vyjayanthi than magical moves. True, she became a major star when the crowds repeatedly bought tickets …

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Balraj Sahni

Balraj Sahni never fitted into the idiom of the conventional hero — nor did he want to. All of 40 when he won lasting fame as the downtrodden but optimistic peasant, Sambhu Mahato in Do Bigha Zameen (’53), Balraj is remembered for his efforts to champion a nascent art movement …

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Geeta Bali

Geeta Bali outclassed the movies she starred in. Easily one of the five best actresses ever to grace the Hindi screen, she unfortunately never found a vehicle worthy of her prodigious talents. Gifted with effervescent naturalism and a delightfully dead-on sense of comic timing, Geeta, however, frittered away her talents …

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