Ramesh Sippy
Hema Malini On Working With Ramesh Sippy
One of Indian cinema’s most influential filmmakers Ramesh Sippy turns a year older on January 23. Indian cinema’s Dream Girl Hema Malini recalls her close association with the filmmaker who redefined commercial cinema. “Rameshji’s first film was Andaz. And I was in it. I was advised not to play a widow so early in my career.But I liked the film and role.The film was a superhit especially the song Zindagi ek safar hai suhana,” recalls Hemaji. “We then did Seeta Aur Geeta which was one of the most important films of my career.People think doing Seeta A | Click Here...
Ramesh Sippy Reacts To Shakti Remake Plans
Director Shree Narayan Singh’s decision to remake that powerful father-son 1992 drama Shakti seems ill-conceived. Ramesh Sippy has already done what needed to be done to that particular Salim-Javed script. What more can Shree Naryan do? How can he hope to encore the casting coup of Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan that Ramesh Sippy had pulled off? And besides, look at what Ram Gopal Varma did to Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay! When I reached out to Ramesh Sippy he said, “What can I say? I’ve already voiced my opinion on remakes very clearly when Mr Ram Gopal Varma decided to d | Click Here...
Comedy is the hardest genre of acting, and Jagdeepji had mastered it: Ramesh Sippy
The Man Who Made Sholay is saddened. His Soorma Bhopali is gone. The death of Jagdeep nudges memories of his most famous character Soorma Bhopali in the Sholay director Ramesh Sippy. Is it true that this character was added to the film as an afterthought and was not shown in the opening week of Sholay? “Not true!’ clarifies the great filmmaker. “I’ll tell you what happened. When Sholay released there was a state of Emergency in India. My film is was 3 hours 24 minutes long. Even if the first show began at 8.30 am the last show could get over by midnight. Those were unc | Click Here...
When Rishi Kapoor, Kamal Haasan and Ramesh Sippy Crushed On Dimple Kapadia
It is no secret that Ramesh Sippy persuaded Dimple Kapadia to make a comeback in Saagar 12 years after Bobby when she gave up her stardom to be Mrs Rajesh Khanna. Ramesh Sippy pursued her relentlessly until Dimple relented. Sippy also roped in her Bobby co-star Rishi Kapoor who was in love with her during Bobby, and Kamal Haasan. It helped that both the actors played besotted lovers. Because that’s how they behaved on location. They would constantly be at Dimple’s beck and call. A source close to Saagar reveals, “There were three men on location who just couldn’t t | Click Here...
Review of Shimla Mirchi: Why bother with this Mirchi?
Starring Hema Malini, Rajkummar Rao, Rakul Preet Singh Directed by Ramesh Sippy Rating: **(2 stars) Rajkummar Rao never fights shy of playing shy characters. There is an innate diffidence in his personality that renders itself effectively to characters who are afraid of expressing themselves lest they get hurt. This time it’s the audience that gets hurt. Badly. Don’t get me wrong. Five years ago maverick moviemaking genius Ramesh Sippy (he once upon a time made a small film called Sholay) made a teekhi, tadka-wali romantic film about tender misalliances. It | Click Here...
Trailer Review of Shimla Mirchi: Does the impossible, makes Hema Malini look desperate
Ramesh Sippy once made Sholay. He also made Andaaz and Seeta Aur Geeta. All three are landmarks in the great Hema Malini’s career. I was waiting for the long-delayed Shimla Mirchi, not only because it marks the return of Ramesh Sippy to direction after 24years (his last directorial Zamana Deewana was released in 1995) but also because it re-unites the gorgeous Hema Malini with Sippy. The trailer gives the entire plot away, piece by piece. Rajkummar Rao, returning to the screen after his stupendous but undermined performance in Made In China, is a man shy of expressing his love t | Click Here...
Shocking: Ramesh Sippy film Shimla Mirch goes straight to OTT
While producers RSVP’s colourful musical extravaganza Bhangra Paa Le was wrongly being reported as going to the streaming platform, it is being released on January 3 in theatres across India, another talked-about film is not quite that lucky on the same Friday. Unknown to anyone associated with the film the producers Viacom 18 have decided to release Ramesh Sippy’s Shimla Mirch, Sippy’s first directorial venture in 24 years, on Netflix. Neither the director nor the principal members of the cast, Hema Malini and Rajkummar Rao were taken into confidence on the release plat | Click Here...
Noted author Ram Kamal Mukherjee bags Society Achievers Best Author Award for Hema Malini’s biography
Author and television producer Ram Kamal Mukherjee bagged the prestigious Society Achievers Award for his authorized biography Hema Malini: Beyond The Dreamgirl in Mumbai. The honour was conferred to Ram Kamal for his outstanding contribution to Indian cinema and literature by Bollywood actor Sonu Sood and Suchitra Krishnamurthy at a star studded event at Taj Santacruz. "I am extremely happy to present this prestigious award to Ram Kamal who has been a prolific writer since last two decades of film journalism," said Sonu Sood. | Click Here...