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Saturday, May 15th, 2010 by
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Subhash Ghai

Indian native Subhash Ghai began his film career after completing his education at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, Maharashtra. His first picture to receive critical recognition was Kalicharan (1976). It told the story of a police officer who goes undercover to investigate a socially connected individual …

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Shyam Benegal

At the start of his career, when his films Ankur (1974) (The Seedling) and Manthan (1976) (The Churning) were released to international acclaim, Shyam Benegal was widely seen as Indian cinema’s heir apparent to Satyajit Ray. Although his sympathies are essentially leftist, Benegal has never adopted the Marxist perspective of …

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Friday, November 13th, 2009 by
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W.Z. Ahmed

W.Z. Ahmed, 91, one of the most outstanding film directors of the subcontinent, passed away at a local hospital on April 15, 2007. He was suffering from an infection of the lung. He was laid to rest at the Bagh-i-Rehmat graveyard on Monday afternoon. After coming up with a series …

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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 by
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Shaikh Mukhtar

He was Bollywood‘s first Hunk – one who would have put today‘s WWF hulks to shame. Exceptionally tall and frighteningly hefty, he was endowed with an immense physique. His face was a roadmap of crisscrossing muscles. A sharp jaw line added to the dimensions of his rock-hard face. Hardly ‘star‘ …

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Zia Sarhady

Zia was a Hindi-Urdu director and scenarist. He was Peshawar (now Pakistan) born like Prithviraj, Raj Kapoor, and Dilip Kumar. He started his film career in 1933, assisting non-Urdu speaking directors and artistes with East India Film at Calcutta. Soon he moved to Sagar pictures where a chance meeting with …

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Sunday, September 27th, 2009 by
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Zahoor Raja

There is something about the old guard that has wholesomeness to it. That’s not to decry the younger lot, but the old schooling taught you a lot more than what the best institutions teach you today. One of the seniors, who made a good impression on our cinema, despite relatively …

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Shaukat Hussain Rizvi

World is a stage. And very few characters of this stage have the right metabolism to stay and perform on it for long. But, there are those too, who stay for a short while, and perform such distinctive acts that people do not forget them for a long time. Amongst …

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