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Saturday, December 26th, 2009 by
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Naya Daur (1957)

Akhtar Mirza (father of the directors Saeed and Aziz Mirza) wrote the story for Naya daur (‘New Era’). In a village, whose main economy depends on a sawmill, many workers face unemployment when the ruthless Kundan (Jeevan) modernises his mill with the introduction of electricity. Two drivers of tongas (horse-drawn …

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Saturday, December 26th, 2009 by
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Ram Aur Shyam (1967)

The theme of identical twins has been present in many cinemas (this being one of the most basic ‘tricks’ available to cinema that was not available to live performances such as plays). Common to melodramas, it is taken to extremes in Hindi cinema, with not just identical twins (Afsana [1951], …

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Saturday, December 26th, 2009 by
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Andaz (1949)

Mehboob Khan’s Andaz opened the prestigious new Liberty cinema in Bombay. Nargis plays the role of Neeta, a modern woman who mixes freely with men, rides horses and wears western clothes. She seems to be falling in love with her father’s manager, Dilip Kumar, while we ignore all the signs …

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Thursday, December 10th, 2009 by
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Nikaah (1982)

Each of B. R. Chopra’s films addresses a serious topic, but they are always entertaining. Nikaah looks at the issue of Muslim divorce, arguing that to be able to get a divorce merely by uttering the three words ‘Talaq, talaq, talaq’ is not in the interests of women or even …

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Thursday, December 10th, 2009 by
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Daera (1953)

Kamal Amrohi’s Daera is a deeply experimental look at a young and frail woman’s mis-marriage with a man old enough to be her father and the suicidal fascination that her young neighbor (played by Dilip Kumar’s brother Nasir Khan) develops for this silently suffering woman. From the outset, when the …

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Sunday, November 29th, 2009 by
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Waris (1954)

An inheritance melodrama about Kunwar (Mahmood), the son of zamindar Rana Himmat Singh (Sethi). Kunwar marries Shobha (Suraiya) and is disinherited, forcing him to join the army during WW2. When he is reported lost and presumed dead, a repentant Rana invites Shobha to stay with him. However, it is Kanta …

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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 by
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Waqt (1965)

Waqt was a landmark in many ways: it is a multi-starrer with four main heroes and two major heroines; it set a trend for showing the lifestyles of the super-rich; it is a ‘lost and found’ film, a storyline that became a favorite in the 1970s; and it has memorable …

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Sunday, November 8th, 2009 by
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Mother India (1957)

Mother India (1957), the Indian Gone with the Wind, is Mehboob’s most famous film and has achieved the status of an Indian cinematic epic. Mother India took three years to make, and is actually a remake of one of Mehboob’s first films, Aurat (Woman, 1940), starring the wonderful actress Sardar …

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Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by
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Khazanchi (1941)

This is an example of the work of the studio in Lahore that was a centre of the Indian film industry before partition and is now the home of ‘Lollywood’ or the Pakistani film industry. A huge hit, it is one of the films that helped to establish the musical …

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Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by
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Elaan (1947)

Story of two half-brothers, the evil Sajjad (Himalaywala) and the good Javed (Surendra). Exploited since his childhood by the richer and crueller branch of the family, represented by Sajjad and his mother (Zebunissa), Javed loses his beloved (Munawar Sultana), bought by Sajjad’s family wealth. The fortunes of the two brothers …

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