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RETROSCOPE: FORGOTTEN WOMEN OF HINDI CINEMA
Those forgotten B-grade movie divas of yesteryear: Khalid Mohamed recalls Indira ‘Billi’, Chitra and Naqi Jehan, just three of the cavalierly sIde-lined B-gr...
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RETROSCOPE: JAIDEV COMPOSED, SILENCE SANG ALONG
On Jaidev’s birth anniversary which was two days ago, on 3rd August, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri remembers the unsung maestro whose timeless melodies, rooted in classical fin...
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RETROSCOPE: WAQT CHANGED HINDI FILMS FOREVER
Sixty years since its release, Waqt remains a landmark of Hindi cinema, introducing the ensemble cast format and modernising the ‘lost-and-found’ trope with emotio...
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RETROSCOPE: WHEN MELODY WAS KING
His lovingly built bungalow, Ashiana, on the Bandra seafront has survived the encroachments of real-estate sharks of sky-high towers. And despite malicious accusations and the...
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RETROSCOPE: CENTENARY OF A REBEL POET OF CELLULOID
Ranjan Das Gupta marks 100 years of Guru Dutt, the visionary director who blended poetry, pathos, and protest in cinema, transforming Hindi films with his uniquely melancholic...
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RETROSCOPE: THIRTY YEARS AFTER...TIME FLIES
Khalid Mohamed revisits Bandit Queen (1994), Shekhar Kapur’s film on the dacoit leader Phoolan Devi, recalling the blitz of controversies which surrounded th...
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RETROSCOPE: OF MEENA KUMARI & DREAMS OF HOLLYWOOD
Khalid Mohamed’s unpublished conversation with the late Saawan Kumar Tak, who despite his mega-hit movies and memorable lyrics never received his just recognition in Bol...
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RETROSCOPE: LOVE, FRIENDSHIP AND TRAGEDY
Khalid Mohamed rewinds to the extraordinary but forgotten story of yesteryear’s actor Shyam, a major star actor who lost his life at the age of 31, after an ...
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RETROSCOPE: HIS ENDURING LEGACY IN BENGALI CINEMA
Celebrating the quiet brilliance of Anup Kumar—Bengali cinema’s everyman—on his birth anniversary. A master of nuance, humour, and emotional depth, his legac...
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RETROSPECTIVE: CINEMA, CONSCIOUSNESS AND TIME
Exploring Shumona Goel’s experimental cinema through fragmented time, sensory aesthetics, and urban modernity, this analysis connects her work to Bergsonism, quantum mec...
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