By Mayank Chhaya Kader Khan rose from the depths of a Dickensian childhood in the Bombay of the 1940s, surrounded by drug peddlers, prostitutes, pimps and assorted thugs to eventually embody the essence of Hindi cinema. Growing up in Kamathipura, Mumbai’s notorious red light district that is at once cruelly[Read More…]
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Kader Khan was backbone of my cinema: David Dhawan
By: Subhash K. Jha Mumbai: The death of one of Hindi mainstream cinema’s most prolific and versatile writer Kader Khan has left filmmaker David Dhawan bereft. “Bhaijaan, that’s what I called him, was the backbone of my cinema. After we worked together for the first time in ‘Bol Radha Bol’,[Read More…]
Remembering Smita Patil: 13 unknown facts about legendary actor on her death anniversary
Born on October 17, 1955, Smita Patil is regarded as one of the finest actors in Hindi and Marathi cinema. She acted in over 80 films in her career that spanned over a decade. Patil, who was married to actor-turned-politician Raj Babbar, passed away in 1986 at the age of[Read More…]