Manmohan Desai
From Film Camps to Negative PR: How Bollywood’s ‘Harmful’ Culture of Groupism Evolved
The idea of ‘camps’ is hardly new to the Hindi film industry. However, what has changed over the decades is the nature of these camps, the intensity of their rivalries and, more recently, the ways in which those rivalries play out in public. Those familiar with the Hindi film industry of the 1940s and 1950s will remember the close professional circles surrounding stars such as Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand and Guru Dutt. Actors, directors, writers and music directors often developed long-standing working relationships. They tended to repeatedly collaborate with p | Click Here...
Manmohan Desai Remembered On His Birth Anniversary
If Manmohan Desai had lived he would have been a ripe young 85 on February 26, still revved-up about movies and life, in that order. Still refusing to be still even for a minute.When I met him in 1986 he already had his chronic back problem which forced him to take his life. But the enthusiasm was undiminished. He would sit up, jump out of his chair, talk animatedly for a few minutes and then lie down when his back complained against the strain. “This back of mine, meri jaan le legi,” he complained. Little did we know that his flippant words of protest would come | Click Here...
Birth Anniversary Special: Manmohan Desai, So Swathed In Zest, Determined To Be The Best
If Manmohan Desai had lived he would have been a ripe young 84 on February 26, still revved-up about movies and life, in that order. Still refusing to be still even for a minute.When I met him in 1986 he already had his chronic back problem which forced him to take his life. But the enthusiasm was undiminished. He would sit up, jump out of his chair, talk animatedly for a few minutes and then lie down when his back complained against the strain. “This back of mine, meri jaan le legi,” he complained. Little did we know that his flippant words of protest wo | Click Here...
Manmohan Desai Hated Amar Akbar Anthony
Among all of Manmohan Desai’s blockbusters the one that is most loved by his fans is Amar Akbar Anthony(AAA), the splashy melodramatic 1977 entertainer where Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna and Rishi Kapoor played three long-lost brothers brought up as a Christian, Hindu and a Muslim, respectively. Surprisingly Manji, as everyone affectionately called him, didn’t think much of AAA. If the truth be told he hated it. In a lengthy interview stretching into two sessions on two consecutive days that he did with me at his residence in Mumbai(then, Bombay) 1986, Manji never known | Click Here...
Manmohan Desai & Shammi Kapoor’s granddaughter Pooja Desai’s WebWaliTV, an entertainer on the digital space
Pooja Desai, the granddaughter of late Producer-Director Manmohan Desai (paternal) and legendary actor Shammi Kapoor (maternal) comes from a film family, and has worked in the Indian Film Industry for a long time. She was assistant to film maker Farah Khan in the movie Om Shanti On. Pooja has now shifted domain and is putting her creative ideas into play on the web space. Her web channel WebWaliTV was launched six months back and she is working towards bringing interesting shows on the web space. Says Pooja Desai in an exclusive talk to IWMBuzz.com, “Internet is the next and | Click Here...