Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Not Bawarchi, Please! Leave The Classics Alone, Here’s What Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Javed Akhtar Have To Say
Yesterday morning, we woke up to the sobering news that one of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s most beloved films Bawarchi will be remade. My mind went into an instant flashback into a conversation with the affable Hrishida. We were once discussing remakes and Hrishida said, “Beta, you know what is my biggest fear? Some day I will no more be here ,and my films will be vulnerable to alien attack. Alien attack matlab, they would want to remake my films. Someone will decide Anand won’t die in the end, that his cancer was a mis-diagnosis. Someone else will decide that Mili dies and i | Click Here...
Remembering The Unassuming Genius Of Hrishikesh Mukherjee
The omnipresent Anupam Kher tells a very interesting story about Hrishikesh Mukherjee. “We were shooting for his last film, Jhoot Bole Kauwa Kaate. Hrishida’s legs had given way, and he’d sit and direct us. I playfully asked him if all his parts had stopped working. ‘No, Anupam, my most vital parts still work fine.…’ Hrishida answered with a smile.” An eminent, very sober and refined filmmaker who has been closely associated with Hrishida tells another story about the prolific Mukherjee during his final days. “I had gone there expecting him to be mournful and doom-lad | Click Here...
Remembering The Unassuming Of Genius Of Hrishikesh Mukherjee
The omnipresent Anupam Kher tells a very interesting story about Hrishikesh Mukherjee. “We were shooting for his last film, Jhoot Bole Kauwa Kaate. Hrishida’s legs had given way, and he’d sit and direct us. I playfully asked him if all his parts had stopped working. ‘No, Anupam, my most vital parts still work fine.…’ Hrishida answered with a smile.” An eminent, very sober and refined filmmaker who has been closely associated with Hrishida tells another story about the prolific Mukherjee during his final days. “I had gone there expecting him to be mournful and doom-l | Click Here...
Lockdown Classics: Bemisal (1982)
It’s interesting to note that Abhishek Bachchan the son of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s favourite screen pair Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bhaduri whom Hrishida directed in the two certifiable classics, Abhimaan and Mili, has just acted in a subverted version of one of his beloved comedies Golmaal. I am clueless as to how Hrishida would’ve reacted to the new Golmaal. But I do know he loved the Bachchan parivar and made some of his best films with them From the ravishing repertoire of films that Amitabh Bachchan did with Hrishikesh Mukherjee Bemisal stands out for giving the Big B one of | Click Here...
How Many Of Basu Chatterjee’s Actors Visited Him When He Was Ailing?
The death of Basu Chatterjee at 94 has liberated the prolific and influential filmmaker from almost 5 years of prolonged pain and suffering when he had absolutely nobody to ask about him or to look after him except his daughter Rupali. Not one of the actors who achieved fame through Basuda’s films had time to pay the ailing actor a visit. Amol Palekar who attained marginal stardom with Basuda’s Rajnigandha and Chotisi Baat, says he met Basuda for the last time five years ago. Yes, five years! Zarina Wahab (Chitchor) admits she found no time to visit Basuda for decades now. | Click Here...
10 Facts About Shashi Kapoor Unknown To The World
1.Shashi Kapoor was Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s second choice for Anand. The first choice was Kishore Kumar. Shashi was finalized. But when the reigning superstar Rajesh Khanna showed keen interest in the role, Shashi was dropped. 2.The feud with Rajesh Khanna continued when Khanna was almost finalized for Raj Kapoor’s Satyam Shivum Sunderam. But Khanna was dropped for no apparent reason and was replaced by Raj Saab’s brother Shashi. Many years later Rajesh Khanna and Shashi came together in Raj Khosla’s Prem Kahani and they barely exchanged hellos.They also battled ove | Click Here...