Shakti Samanta
Romantic films had lost their glamour and Rajesh Khanna had also lost his number one position to Amitabh and Dharmendra: Ashim Samanta on Mehbooba
Shakti Samanta's son Ashim speaks to IWMBuzz on 50 years of Mehbooba and more: On the Film's Box Office Performance & Expectations Mehbooba was a highly anticipated film because it had fabulous music. I think people expected it to become a big hit because there was a long gap between Rajesh Khanna's last film and this film. Somehow the film did not perform as well as expected. Though it did quite good business in most parts of the country, it did not as per expectations. It was average in Bombay. So, the perception among the press and film people wa | Click Here...
Catching Up With A Classic: Amar Prem
From its opening montage of a young rustic girl watching her callous husband bring home another wife, to the dying moments when the woman, now in her twilight years, is taken away to the relative comfort of her foster-son’s home as the festivities of Durga Puja break out on the streets of Kolkata… Amar Prem is a glorious homage to that favourite Bollywood archetype: the golden-hearted prostitute. That Sharmila Tagore plays the woman whom men of all ages gravitate to in pursuit of some heavy-duty nurturing is a very happy situation for the screenplay. In the film a 7-year old boy | Click Here...