Prakash Mehra
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...
Dharmendra On The Real Reason He Said No To Zanjeer
Zanjeer was the first of the seven films that Prakash Mehra and Amitabh Bachchan collaborated on.It changed a lot of lives. It turned around writers Salim-Javed’s , Amitabh Bachchan’s and Prakash Mehra’s careers. It redefined the screenplay for Hindi cinema. The comedy track was done away with, for once. The hero didn’t sing any song. He didn’t even smile in the film. At the time when Zanjeer was being planned all of what Salim-Javed thought to be USPs in their script proved to be stumbling blocks. Many heroes refused Zanjeer. Dharmendra was the first hero it went to. Dev A | Click Here...
Dr. Shriram Lagoo, The Masterly Misfit
The supremely talented Shriram Lagoo who passed away on 17 December was a late bloomer. He did his first film when he was into his 40s. He was 42 when he finally quit his successful career as an ENT doctor and pursued his passion for acting in the theatre where he did such memorable plays as Nata Samrat, Kaachecha Chandra, and Gidhade. Back then for an actor in his 40s to enter Bollywood was unheard of. But he got lucky with V Shantaram’s Pinjra in Mara | Click Here...