Parveen Babi
Mahesh Bhatt Exclusively On Parveen Babi On Her 70th Birth Anniversary
As Told To Subhash K Jha “What do you say about a girl who embraced Walt Disney’s philosophy, believing earnestly that if you can dream it, you can do it? What do you say about a girl from a traditional Muslim family in Junagadh who fearlessly ventured into Mumbai’s dreamscape, ascended to Bollywood stardom, and then leapt onto the cover of Time magazine, becoming the first Indian actress to achieve such a feat? How do you capture the essence of a girl who courageously lived beyond society’s boundaries, faced its backlash head-on, and marched forward with grace?” “ | Click Here...
Remembering The Doomed Parveen Babi On Her Death Anniversary
Jab tum chale jaoge yaad bahot aaoge…Parveen Babi sang this beautiful Lata Mangeshkar song in Vijay Anand’s Bullet, her only film with the unstoppable Dev Anand. I remember a conversation with Dev Saab when we spoke on Parveen. “Now that you ask me I wonder why I did only one film with Parveen. She was just my kind of heroine.Very stylish, effortlessly Westernized, born for the movie camera…How would I compare her with Zeenat? I wouldn’t! It would be unfair to both.” Parveen Babi died 19 years ago on January 20, 2005. But as far as the film | Click Here...
When Amitabh Bachchan Spoke Exclusively On Parveen Babi’s Schizophrenia & Death
Amitabh Bcahchan has never spoken about Parveen Babi except once to this writer. When Parveen had passed away, Mr. Bachchan in an uncharacteristically candid moment spoke exclusively to me about her. This is what he had to say. “Parveen Babi and I worked together in several films – Majboor, Deewaar, Amar Akbar Anthony, Namak Halal, Shaan, Kaalia, Mahaan, Do Aur Do Paanch, Kala Patthar… I did the maximum number of films with Parveen after Jaya, followed by Raakhee and Rekha. A lot of these films I had forgotten about until the press reminded me | Click Here...
Review Of Ranjish Hi Sahi: A Sprightly Engaging Narrative
With Ranjish Hi Sahi, the director Pushpdeep Bhardwaj revisits the setting from the '70s, that sprawls around to and fro with flashbacks to present swinging from the eras 1959-2005, with a fictionalised toast and touch on Mahesh Bhatt's life. The show takes off with a blurry curl, narrated through the stances of a maverick filmmaker Shankar Vats, with layers of reminiscences, which definitely came out to be a masterstroke that keeps you hooked on the ride with a quest to know how things eventuated. The first episode of the series makes it clear on Shankar's unyielding charac | Click Here...
Did You Know Ranbir Kapoor Once Inspired This Actress To Do Parveen Babi’s Biopic: Know Who
Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt's dating bits of hearsay have consistently been all the rage as they oftentimes unveil a few appearances together. When the duo showed up together at an occasion, Ranbir proposed how Alia Bhatt could do a biopic of one of the most celebrated actresses of the Bollywood business, Parveen Babi. He said, "The way she's going, she can do her own biopic, but all jokes aside, Madhuri Dixit? Meena Kumari, Madhubala, Waheeda Rahman, Zeenat Aman, Parveen Babi. I think Parveen Babi would be a good biopic for her to do, no?" This happened when the duo was ther | Click Here...
Parveen Babi and her 5 finest films to watch
Unfairly , she was always compared with Zeenat Aman and even labelled the Poor Man’s Zeenat. In truth Parveen was a better actress who never got the opportunities that Zeenat did, never worked with directors like Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand, and still left a mark even in the smallest of roles. Try these for sighs. 1. Charitra(1973): In her very first film Parveen flung away the image of the typical heroine to play a girl who is compelled to sleep with her father’s creditor who impregnates her and refuses to own up to the child. It took a d | Click Here...
No Comebacks…Attempts To Make Aborted Comebacks
Out of sight out of mind, goes the cliché. Nowhere is the truth behind this thought more evident than in Bollywood where actors are known to plan elaborately-staged comebacks only to find the audience and the entertainment industry has moved on. Here’s looking at the Top 10 comeback plans gone awry: Madhuri Dixit: She saw it all, conquered the boxoffice and then decided to quit at the peak of her career after Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas to make a home far away from home with her non-filmy husband and two sons. Expectantly the itch to get back in fro | Click Here...
Blast from The Past: Parveen Babi’s Disappearance & Death
That the beautiful Parveen Babi was schizophrenic was a tragic truth that her lovers Mahesh Bhatt and Danny Denzonpga have confirmed to me, the Writer. But what made her topple over the brink? All those who knew her closely say her condition was controllable. All she needed to do was to stay in a stable relationship and take her medication regularly. So what made her lapse into a paranoid mess? Friends say it was her obsession with a mega-star that did her in. She constantly ranted about the Mega-star trying to kill her, planting a chip in her head and all sorts of nonsense. Q | Click Here...