#Waheeda Rehman family

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Anne Baxter (The Ten Commandments, All About Eve)—her soft, gentle voice in "all about eve", those gentle eyes with something odd behind them, the way she flips from Sweet Innocent to Viper on a dime......there was something Built Different about anne baxter, man, and it makes her so good for playing people who are Built Wrong. also one of my favorite batmen villains (her joint episode w vincent price is a delight) and of course I'm obsessed with her columbo episode where she bosses around edith head and does fabulous movie star things for no good reason. and i would be REMISS if i didn't mention her slink—oh the slink—in the ten commandments...................pardon me i must go think of sinning again

Waheeda Rehman (Chaudhvin Ka Chand, Pyaasa, Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam)—90+ films and counting, an absolute legend of Hindi cinema. When I see her in Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam it makes me want to chew glass

This is round 3 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Anne Baxter:

The prettiest murderer in that film. Just so beautifully evil as Nefertari.

Anne Baxter was part of my Bisexual Awakening. My family has a tradition that every Palm Sunday we watch The ten commandments on TV together... And starting from a very young age, I essentially developed a crushes on Anne Baxter's Nefertiri & Yul Brynner's Ramses. Dude, the woman was HOT! They both were! My crush definitely wasn't helped by the fact that Anne Baxter's costumes were a bit on the sheer side. She had a way of capturing you with her eyes, and I never understood why Charlton heston's Moses didn't just have a threesome with Nefertiri and Ramses. LOL

Her Nefertiri in The Ten Commandments was FORMATIVE TO ME. If not the hottest old movie lady, then she definitely played the hottest old movie character. if that makes sense.

Look. Listen. I only *just* discovered her on a post from the Have You Seen This Romcom poll blog. Saw she had the same last name as me and went OOH hi hello. Went to her IMdB and saw she was born in Indiana like moi. I am now even more intrigued. Been eagerly telling my partner this, and he was like "maybe you guys are distantly related?" And after 2 hrs of going down the tumblr tag + her imdb photos, I'm In Deep(tm) and I can't stop looking at her like 😍 When I go to my grandma's house, bet your ass I'm gonna check my grandpa's genealogy and see if we're somehow related. Sorry that's not really propaganda I just got real excited, esp when I saw that the submission deadline was extended (bless your soul). Narrowing down the movies where she's hottest in was Hell tyvm. I've only just discovered her, she looks gorgeous to me in every movie still I see of her gdi lol.

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[cleolinda]

Weekend links, April 14, 2024

My posts

Honestly, I spent much of the week coping with storm migraines. You can tell, because I was reblogging a lot from under a cold compress rather than doing anything useful with life. 

Reblogs of interest

The Hot Vintage Lady Polls are rough out there, y’all. Round three started closing yesterday (see what’s still open here), and as of this writing, we have lost Bette Davis, Alla Nazimova, Theda Bara, Myrna Loy, Barbra Streisand, Fay Wray, Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers, and Olivia de Havilland--and it looks like Catherine Deneuve, Clara Bow, Lana Turner, and Mary Pickford are on their way out. Meanwhile, I learned about a ton of actresses I’d never heard of before, only to shriek when Sharmila Tagore, Nadira, and Waheeda Rehman lost this round. (Edwige, I will never forget you.) 

Let me remind you (and me sometimes, too): Not everyone has the same taste or childhood attachments or cinema experiences as you. And everybody in this bracket loses. Everybody but one. 

(I can tell I’m not cut out for brawling because I’m like, “I will be very sad to see Norma Shearer go, but Hazel Scott seems nice!”)

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“Actually, Mr. Musk, I am an attorney. Do you know that?” Here’s the highlights of Mark Bankston, the man who brought down Alex Jones, coping with Elon Musk and Elon Musk’s Lawyer, who is not even licensed in Texas, for 100 pages of deposition. 

Hozier Watch 2024: “Too Sweet” has now charted higher in the UK than “Take Me to Church,” and it’s getting real close on the US charts. This is a song that didn’t even make last year’s album. I am endlessly fascinated. 

Happy Leland Melvin Day!

Happy Neil Banging Out the Tunes Day!

“Posting endless DNIs because we can’t (or don’t know we can) make spaces just for the people we do want to interact with” actually makes a lot of sense in this centralized social media hellscape. 

There is a 20k mg weed gummy and nobody needs that. “Forget meeting the Hat Man this is what turns you into the Hat Man. This is worse than that torture drug that makes you experience 600 billion years in a second. This is the secret to honest to god shifting.” 

One of the best uses of the Kate Beaton Poe comic I’ve ever seen

“Americanisms that tell you to check on your American” (they are all correct)

“Tuxedo Mask is the first example of being ‘Kenough’”

Just this once, I will allow this AI rendition of a “traditional Polish family” and their traditional Polish woodchuck. 

I am absolutely not saying there is anything wrong with being into tentacles; I’m just saying that Pyramid Head doesn’t even have them and thus is a pretty tame choice to complain about. 

Little Guy, a game

A cursèd chair called “Oops!”

Sparrow Tarot: Honestly, this is one of my favorite takes on the Hanged Man.

This dog is a biscuit and she is precious

Video

One of the things that’s so great about this Ilia Malinin free-skate program is, he makes it look so effortless that I would have never figured out on my own, without Tumblr’s commentary, that there’s a couple moves in here that no one in the world can do but him. Like, the very first jump and the announcers start screaming. 

A journey from fearing moths to raising them

A dude puts on a dress For the Meme and then discovers that he loves it (and then he styles it as a full outfit and it looks SO GOOD)

Watching this cat ride around on a roomba on a sped-up surveillance camera is self-care.

So is this (although it’s a bit strobe-y)

Bat type: hi doggy

Was the jello for the tuna salad lamb supposed to be lime?

The sacred texts

Holy Shit, Two Cakes

The origin of “Me, an intellectual”

#AllMyLifeIHadToFight

Personal tag of the week

Designer Roberto Cavalli, who passed away this week at age 83. I reblogged several fashion posts--I hadn’t even realized myself that he had designed Beyoncé’s famous yellow dress in Lemonade.

#weekend links #odds and ends #linkspam

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I need to watch the older Hindi and Bengali films.

This is the thing that I don't like about my family, absolutely no film culture. They didn't sit me down to watch their favourite movies even though I know they liked going to movies during their youth. Pass on the culture please.

My film love starts with srk, and it's not a bad thing but I can't appreciate Amitabh, Dilip, waheeda rehman, nutan, Madhubala, and so so many more, entirely because I just haven't seen their glorious body of works.

So if anyone can suggest some jewels and also where to watch them.

First, need to go search satyajit ray's all works.

#movies #indian movies #gonna start with hindi and bengali and then Malayalam movies I'm coming for you

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TABAHIYAN PHIR BHI AYENGI, SHIKAR PHIR SANG LAYENGI. JAB JAB CHAUDHVIN KE CHAND, KAAGAZ KE PHOOL KHILAYENGI. AUR KHUBSURAT INSAAF KI DASTAANEN BAAP-DADAON REHTE PYASI HI REH JAYENGI. - THE SHAMEFUL END TO THE GURU DUTT-GEETA DUTT STORY - THE LIKELY MYSTERIOUS HEART ATTACK TURNED ACCIDENTAL DEATH TURNED SUICIDE! - THE STORY OF THE MOST WRONGED WOMAN OF BOLLYWOOD !

The story of Guru Dutt's death, arguably the greatest actor-director combine India's ever seen, ranked no. 145 on the Indies All-Time Greatest Indian Personalities list btw(!), husband to erstwhile popular playback singer Geeta Dutt, & elder brother of film director Atmaram, has fascinated all Indian film lovers for the past 60 yrs, ever since his shocking so-called suicide was made known to Indian audiences on Oct 10, 1964 morning. No post-mortem report confirming the possibility of such a suicide, or even the presence of all those high number of sleeping pills in deadly combination with very high levels of alcohol, in his body, causing this fatal reaction, has ever come to light.

Instead what's been peddled is the theory that- Guru Dutt had split from his wife & star singer Geeta Dutt, a few yrs back, primarily on account of his extra-marital affair with Waheeda Rehman, a aspect of his life on which he'd even made a movie called 'Kaagaz Ke Phool' that bombed at the box-office, in 1958, causing a further financial strain on his already tumultuous family life, that made him heavily depressive, causing him to take to a life of heavy drinking, exacerbated by resultant sleep-deprivation causing a further high dependance on sleeping pills, a overall lifestyle that went on to result in such a fatal or suicidal tragedy.

Even Guru Dutt's detailed activities from the day prior to the morning of his death, were made known to the nation via media statements from Guru Dutt's Asst Abrar Alvi (or statements to the nation attributing him  as source) (btw, Mr. Alvi has also apparently written a book affirming media statements from then, & also spoken on at different places elsewhere on the same) (as also sourced from sr. journo Shams Tahir Khan’s Yt channel ‘Crime Tak’) who was supposedly present with him since evening 6 pm or so of Oct 9, working on the final scenes or so of a upcoming script of their home production, Guru Dutt Productions film titled 'Baharen Phir Bhi Ayengi' with Guru Dutt in the lead role.

Per the theory narrated by Shams in his YT ‘Crime Tak’ (this morning part obviously sourced from Guru Dutt’s cook with whom he lived in his rented flat at Peddar Road, since Abrar only supposedly arrived that evening), Guru called up his now estranged wife Geeta Dutt (living in the suburbs of Santacruz in Mumbai with their kids) either in the morning or early afternoon, asking her to send their kids over to the Peddar Rd house for a few hrs as he really wanted to spend time with them. She obliged, & the kids did come over in Guru Dutt’s car that he’d sent for them, & spent time with him, & then left to return to Mom's home before evening. However after they left, Guru started feeling desperately emotional to meet them again, & yet again called up Geeta to send the kids back for some more time. By then, Abrar’d arrived home too, & thus supposedly got to know of this interaction. To which Geeta supposedly replied in the negative given how twas turning evening, & said the kids would be better off not being burdened with so much travelling for one day. This supposedly disturbed Guru no end & he started pestering Geeta by calling her up again & again & repeating his demand. All this while he was getting more & more intoxicated & drunk by the hour, in the interim of which Abrar also recalls a friend of Guru working in the Income Tax also arriving & stayed till dinner, that apparently Guru Dutt didn’t eat himself, as was too busy getting drunk instead, after which the friend left, & Abrar & Gutt continued with their script work. Abrar decided to leave for the night at around 1 am, & apparently instructed the cook to not give Guru any more drinks if he so demanded, & left. Guru did ask the cook for drinks, & upon being declined which, took it out himself, & went to his room with his whiskey, & locked the room from within, surely past 2 am or so. Now when his room didn't open for many hours the next morning, the cook called up Geeta who got scared & asked for it to be broken down. The reason for Geeta having gotten scared, as we are then told, is that Geeta was threatened with suicide by Guru, in one of the calls made to her, upon which he broke open the door, to find Guru lying unconscious. A doctor was instantly summoned & Geeta too was telephoned. The doctor came & found him lying dead with strips of empty sleeping pills & a small liquid bottle aside the bottle of alcohol kept on the nearby table, thus driving to the conclusion of his suicide or death by accidental overdose.

(Watch Shams’s narration of the incident of Oct 9-10, 1964, as sourced by him from the archival journals, from 13:15 onwards)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JrBTjMDX18

In one of the many interviews on that day’s events, that Abrar gave to a documentary production, that’s available on Yt, he further mentions how during that evening convo, Guru started talking to him about ‘crazy people’ & how he’d received a letter from his friend who was now in a mental asylum, a letter that if anyone read, sounded absolutely normal & fine, to which Guru then turned to Abrar, & in Abrar’s own words, told him, “Abrar, sometimes I think I am crazy!”, alluding to Guru’s disturbed state of mind.

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(Watch 15:15-16:25) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCahS0h2FYo&list=PLuoc1SnFXG6mmTyUcH4x6II5bTmbzU-Wi&index=6

Now even popular expert Yt investigative shows like 'Crime Tak' while to be fair only interpreting the available literature from many decades prior, have not gone beyond the usual line in explaining away this lack of post-mortem done thereafter to verify the exact cause of death, by stating how such a post-mortem would anyway not have been able to decipher if these pills & alcohol were consumed in a deliberate suicidal bent of mind or a mere accident from a deadly chemical reaction brought about in sufficiently dosage & intake.

BUT NONE HAVE EVEN VENTURED TO EXPLORE THE QUESTION OF WHETHER HE'D EVEN CONSUMED SUCH SLEEPING PILLS & SUCH ALCOHOL IN THE FIRST PLACE!

TILL TODAY.

And lemme say, almost entirely triggered by today's Yt post from writer-actor-film journalist Shishir Kumar Sharma's Yt channel 'Beete Hue Din', a repost from their own investigation into forgotten artists, from few yrs back, a repost likely inspired by our Kishore Kumar- RD Burman expose from yesterday.:)

This post highlights a forgotten b & w actor called Shyam Kapoor (remember the guy lip-syncing 'Leke pehla pehla pyar bharke aankhon me khumar' from 1956's Guru Dutt produced Dev Anand starrer CID?!!!) stating on record, albeit 4 decades later, with most of his kids well-settled abroad in USA, & he 86 yrs old, in 2014 to Shishir ji who tracked him down to his Versova flat, for the first time, how-

GURU DUTT WAS INFACT SHOOTING FOR HIS HOME PRODUCTION 'BAHAREN PHIR BHI AAYENGI', THE WHOLE DAY OF OCT 9, 1964, AT GURU DUTT STUDIOS, THAT HE WAS PRESENT ON, AS A ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE FILM,  TO WITNESS ALL DAY & ENTIRE EVENING, an evening he distinctly remembers also for Mala Sinha, the heroine of the film, incidentally whose death scene (also being the climax scene of the film) was shot for on that very day, having requested Guru Dutt in front of everyone, upon pack-up in the evening, to give her a holiday for the next day, to attend an important premiere in Calcutta, a permission that Guru Dutt did give. He further narrates how Guru Dutt  then proceeded to his personal room upstairs in his studios, accompanied by the parallel heroine of the film Tanuja ji, when started feeling his chest in discomfort, to which a concerned Tanuja inquired for his health, to which he replied "I think I'm having a heart problem", & in an  instant expression of light amusement turned to Tanuja & exclaimed "Dekho kal Mala bhi nahi aa rahi hai. Artist producer ko heart problem hi to dete hain!", turning everyone's mood jovial & light.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwxyc6PQw4U

IF ALL THIS IS TRUE, THEN THIS WAS CERTAINLY NOT A MAN IN A DEPRESSED STATE OF MIND, INFACT QUITE THE OPPOSITE.

IF ALL THIS IS TRUE, THEN GURU DUTT DIED FROM A HEART ATTACK, MOST LIKELY AS A RESULT OF MULTIPLE HEART ATTACKS IN THE EARLY MORNINGS OR SO OF OCT 10, 1964, GIVEN HOW WE WAS LIKELY EXPERIENCING HIS FIRST HEART ATTACK IN THE EVENING OF OCT 9, IN FRONT OF TANUJA & SHYAM! A YOUNG 39 YR OLD MAN, WITH NO PERSONAL OR KNOWN FAMILIAL HISTORY OF EARLY HEART DISEASE WHATSOEVER!

Bringing us to the next set of mysteries-

What’s with all the other, totally different picture, presented by Abrar Alvi & Guru Dutt’s cook on Guru most likely having committed suicide, or having died in severe overdose of depression-induced pills & booze, due to his tattered personal life??

A story which itself has innumerable flaws & holes in it btw, on account of the statement given by Guru Dutt’s son Arun who was 8 yrs old in 1964, several decades later, available on WildFilmsIndia Yt channel, on how Guru Dutt never spent a single minute of Oct 9, 1964 with him or his siblings, as he was scheduled for a weekly meeting with them the next day ie Oct 10, Arun’s last meeting with his dad having taken place on Oct 3 or so, on his last weekly trip! Also mentioning how his father did not have a telephone in his rented flat at Peddar Road, & so had to go downstairs to his neighbor's house to make a call each time instead! .. Given all this as true, SOUNDS IMPOSSIBLE THAT CELEBRITY GURU DUTT WOULD’VE MADE THOSE INNUMERABLE FRANTIC EMOTIONAL CALLS TO HIS WIFE, ON THE SAME EVENING, FROM HIS NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE, RINGING THEIR BELL & DISTURBING THEM EVERYTIME FOR THE SAME, IN ONE OF WHICH CALLS HE’S EVEN SUPPOSEDLY ALLEGED TO HAVE THREATENED TO COMMIT SUICIDE IF HIS DAUGHTER WASN’T SENT TO HIS PEDDAR ROAD HOME IMMEDIATELY, ALL THIS WHILE AT PER ONE WITNESS HE'D ALREADY MET THEM AMPLY JUST 2-3 HRS BACK, & PER OTHER STORY-MEMBER WERE SET TO MEET JUST FEW HOURS LATER ANYWAY ! ..  Neither have his neighbors till today ever mentioned anything about such calls on that day anywhere.

(Watch Arun Dutt’s interview to WildFilmsIndia on Yt)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY8HDWYtbJA

Furthermore, given how they weren’t hearing this themselves, is it even conceivable that Guru Dutt would come back home after these calls from his neighbor's house below, & inform Abrar & the cook about it’s details??! Also given how Guru Dutt was by all accounts said to be a deep introvert, who certainly wouldn’t be expected to share intimate details about his children & his impulses towards them, with his assistants, howsoever friendly?? Also given how Abrar himself affirms in his book as also mentioned elsewhere, how he never saw Guru losing his composure or being gripped by the effects of alcohol, & behaving like a drunkard, ever, despite being a drinker! How did Abrar & the cook then get to know of such intimate emotional & personal telephone convos by Guru Dutt, that they didn’t overhear ??

NOW LET’S ENVISAGE THE OTHER SCENARIO, NAMELY THAT GURU WAS IN GURU DUTT STUDIOS TILL EVENING OF OCT 9, 1964, PER HIS ASST DIRECTOR SHYAM KAPOOR’S CLAIM-

HE WOULD THEN ONLY HAVE MADE IT BACK HOME BY AROUND 8 PM OR SO, THE TIME ALSO MENTIONED BY HIS SON ARUN (BY WHEN THE KIDS WOULD BE REGULARLY ASLEEP, WHEN LIVING TOGETHER TILL 1963), AS WHEN HE’D REGULARLY ARRIVE HOME EACH NIGHT FROM WORK AT! .. IN THAT CASE, HOW WOULD HE EVER HAVE HAD THE TIME TO POSSIBLY ENVISAGE A PLAN OF CALLING HIS KIDS HOME FROM A PLACE NEARLY AN HOUR AWAY BY CAR, (THE NEXT STORY, THAT NONE OVERHEAR AGAIN, MIND YOU,  IS HE WANTED JUST HIS 2 YR OLD DAUGHTER SENT), REACH BY 9 PM, SPEND LEISURE TIME & MAKE THEM REACH BACK HOME AT A TIME NOT LESS THAN MIDNIGHT OR SO, THAT ALL THIS EXERCISE WOULD’VE HAD TO HAVE TAKEN, & WITH THEM HAVING TO ATTEND SCHOOL EARLY MORNING THE NEXT DAY (ST. MARY’S SCHOOL HAD A 7 AM START I THINK), WHILST SCHEDULED TO MEET ALL OF THEM JUST FEW HRS LATER ANYWAY. !?????

FURTHERMORE, ANOTHER BIGGEST HOLE IN THE PEDDLED THEORY! NAMELY THAT GURU DUTT WAS MERELY WORKING ON THE SCRIPTING OF ‘BAHAREN PHIR BHI AYENGI’ BY OCT 1964! .. WHEREAS PER ASST SHYAM KAPOOR, GURU DUTT HAD ALREADY COMPLETED SHOOTING A DECENT AMOUNT (~40%) OF ‘BAHAREN PHIR BHI AYENGI’ BY THEN! (A FACT ALSO ACCEPTED BY DEVI DUTT IN VIDEO & PRINTS INTERVIEWS PRESENTED LATER). SO WHAT IS ABRAR TALKING ABOUT!?? AND WHY???

On this count, we get to know, that his last produced film ‘Baharen Phir Bhi Ayengi’, released ~2 yrs later on Sept 6, 1966, with Dharmendra now playing the hero’s role. Now remember, per AD Shyam Kapoor, this film was 40% shot & ready, beyond all the pre-production work & everything, by Oct 10, 1964, already! Yet that took a full 2 yrs to complete & be released. AND OF COURSE, WITH GEETA DUTT, THAT SONG IN EVERY HOME PRODN TILL THEN, MISSING IN PLAYBACK.

(Below are stills from Guru Dutt Prods' 'Baharen Phir Bhi Ayengi', with Guru Dutt as hero, that was being shot (as evidenced on one clap clip) certainly in Sept 1964 & likely from while earlier, none of which stills being from any song sequence of the film. These were all scripted scenes.)

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This, per Asst Dir of the film Shyam Kapoor, for distributors (SUPPOSEDLY, AS WE’RE TOLD LATER) placing a strange request in front of Guru Dutt production house to have it re-shot entirely by Abrar Alvi. So while the original director Shaheed Latif’s name is retained as Dir, per an agreement with distributors, Abrar Alvi was assigned the task of re-shooting the film, then lazed around royally with & took ~ 1.5  more years to complete, & per Shyam Kumar, emptied out Guru Dutt Films’s coffers in the process! Why?? Also in this process strengthening Abrar’s own peddled theory of him being in discussions with Guru Dutt on the final scene of ‘Baharen Phir Bhi Ayengi’ on Oct 9, 1964, thus needing a sufficient time gap in eventual release of the film, to prime facie turn his own narrative plausible!

Furthermore, this case enters the SSR domain, when we get to hear of how his cook broke open the door of Guru Dutt’s room, & saw him lying unconscious, & called the doctor & his wife Geeta! .. Broke open the door.. really, sir???! And then, given all the conflicting tales, how does one truthfully account for all those empty sleeping pill strips lying on his table along with some open liquid bottle?? Remember 50s Bollywood was renowned for film noir murder mysteries & crime investigation, yet not even an ordinary post-mortem done here, that too in a case of prime facie suicide, that too of such a huge celebrity???? And then what’s with all that talk of Guru having entertained his kids in his Peddar Road home on afternoon of Oct 9, that obviously would’ve been narrated by the cook, as being the only one around at home at that time, that Guru’s son himself refutes???

Now as if this weren’t enough, we now have another addition to this most twisted of all narrative dump, in the form of Asha Bhosle reportedly having mentioned in a Documentary aired on Doordarshan, how Guru Dutt had called her up at the midnight of his death, inquiring whether his wife Geeta was at her house (just a few blocks away at Peddar Road itself)!

(Watch 16:40-17:20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGb18GnqMIQ

So now we are to believe that Guru not only went to his neighbor's house at midnight to make a phone call, to a colleague, inquiring if his wife had traveled half the city, from Santacruz to Peddar Road, to be just a few meters away from her husband’s home, at midnight, when she was anyway scheduled to meet him, just a few hours later with all the kids, as per every week, as also per his brother Devi’s assertion that the 2 had decided to reunite & stay together after a few months, once their redeveloped bungalow-turned-high rise apartment  would begin accommodation (Note that per grapevine, Geeta Dutt had some problem with the interior vaastu of her old bungalow, due to which Guru had decided to have it redeveloped into a commercial mutli-residential luxury high-rise in the first place!)

So why did Asha Bhosle say all this, given how we now know it’s almost impossible that Guru Dutt would’ve gone down the stairs & disturbed his neighbor's house post midnight to make a phone call to Asha?

https://udayindia.in/bollywood-suicides/

NOW IT’S ALMOST CERTAIN, THAT THE GURU DUTT SUICIDE THEORY AS PEDDLED BY ABRAR ALVI & THE COOK HAS A PROVERBIAL MILLION FLAWS IN IT, & CAN’T BE ACCEPTED AS TRUTH IN ANY WAY.

Be it for reasons of lack of autopsy or post-mortem, cook’s breaking open of door & said to have found empty sleeping pill strips & open liquid bottle (that neither the police nor the media & newspapers surprisingly followed up on), the cook’s false narrative of the kids having arrived that afternoon, the need for Guru to have gone out of his way to neighbor's house below that evening to make all those supposed emotional self-threatening out-of-control phone calls to his wife, & finally his highly propagandized ‘state of mind’??

Let’s explore this last aspect. It is certain that Guru Dutt was in EXTREMELY GOOD MONETARY CONDITION, for the good foreseeable future, to say the least, given how his last release ‘Chaudhvin Ka Chand’, as we now know, almost entered the Top 100 Biggest Ticket-sellers list, in Hindi Cinematic history! Furthermore, as his poshest Pali Hill located bungalow had been sold off to prime redevelopers, to be converted into a big posh luxury high-rise apartment (as attested to by his brother Devi Dutt himself in his 2019 interview!), where each of his brothers & their families, incl him & his family, were being given a separate floor each to themselves, or which it is almost certain that he’d have received a very fat sum of money!

Yet, for some strange reason, Guru Dutt’s brother, in a 2019 interview (as well as in a 2015 intv, & perhaps others), while atleast after all these decades, finally coming out to affirm Shyam Kapoor’s claim that Guru Dutt was indeed shooting for ‘Baharen Phir Bhi Ayengi’ till evening for Oct 9th, after which he went shopping with him to Charagh Din, before finally reaching home, leaves it at that, (this too, we suspect, for having known of Shyam Kapoor having come out with his version of facts, in front of the world), mentions how Guru Dutt was in a financially disastrous space, only unknown to the world, for Guru not having declared bankruptcy officially, & with the Income-Tax on his doors ready to raid & take away all his assets at any moment! This to a man, who’s just earned many many tens of crores (then, in non-inflation-adjusted sums) from his most recent universally acclaimed super mega-blockbuster film!  Is this even a remotely believable theory for the world to buy into!???

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https://www.filmfare.com/features/women-were-ready-to-do-anything-for-guru-dutt-devi-dutt-28634-2.html

Below is Devi Dutt on video saying that Guru Dutt had already picturized the songs of ‘Baharen Phir Bhi Ayengi’ with the cast members!

(Watch 7:00-8:12)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQIl6Qw5WQI

All this, while Abrar Alvi, is on record on video (posted above), saying that even the script of the film was not finalized yet, & that he was still writing the final scenes of the film with Guru Dutt on the day of Guru Dutt’s death!

Also, all this, while Asst Director Shyam Kapoor, has on record stated that, twas the climax/final scene of ‘Baharen Phir Bhi Ayengi’ that was being shot on Oct 9 with Mala Sinha, 1964, before Guru’s death on Oct 10 night or early morning! 

THIS IS A DIRECT MISMATCH BTWN ALL THE 3 (STAR) WITNESSES, & ARUN DUTT & THE COOK, ON KEY EVENTS OF THE DAY!

WHY WOULD GEETA BE SENDING THE KIDS TO GURU'S FLAT ON OCT 9 (PER DEVI DUTT, ABRAR ALVI, & OTHERS) SPECIALLY, WHEN THEY WERE ALL SCHEDULED TO MEET THE VERY NEXT DAY ANYWAY, PER WEEKLY ROUTINE? FURTHERMORE, WHEN THEY WERE ALL SET TO REUNITE & LIVE TOGETHER AGAIN ONCE THEIR NOW REDEVELOPED LUXURY BUILDING WOULD BE READY JUST A FEW MONTHS LATER (ALSO AS LET OUT BY DEVI DUTT)?   .. ALL THIS WAS BEING DONE, TO ESTABLISH A NARRATIVE OF GURU DUTT'S DESPERATE EMOTIONAL STATE ON OCT 9 NIGHT, ON WHICH HIS 'THE END' WAS DECIDED!

(Below is their family pic from, we’re safely guessing (given Nina’s age in pic), one of their weekly meetings).

ALSO, HOW COULD GURU DUTT HAVE HAD 2 YEARS HEAVY BACK-TAXES PENDING, EVEN THREATENING FORECLOSURE OF THE ENTIRE GURU DUTT PRODUCTION HOUSE, WHEN HE'D JUST EARNED, IN TODAY'S EQUIVALENT, A SUM OF ~900 CRORE RUPEES FROM HIS NEAR LAST RELEASED FILM (’CHAUDHVIN KA CHAND’) JUST BEFORE IT !

Btw, as an unconnected aside, we also hear from Shyam Kapoor himself, how Guru’s brother Atmaram, who takes over production duties of Guru Dutt Films after Guru’s demise, makes his next film ‘Shikar’ in 1968, (from the profits earned from the super-hit ‘Baharen Phir bhi Ayengi’ in 1966), that’s a full 4 yrs after Guru’s death, which is a big hit (ranked only at 950 or so at Indies All-Time Popularity meter, but supposedly rakes in such huge money), that he buys land in Versova from it’s profits & builds an entire building in Guru Dutt’s name from it, housing the permanent staff of Guru Dutt Films, incl Shyam Kapoor too btw, permanently in few of the flats therein too.

AMAZING HOW A FILM, THAT BARELY MAKES IT TO TOP 1000 BIGGEST BOLLY MONEY-EARNERS, (IE BOTH 'SHIKAR' IN 1968 & 'BAHAREN PHI BHI AYENGI' IN 1966), CAN CAUSE PRODUCER TO RAISE A FULL BUILDING IN PRIME LAND IN THE MOST EXPENSIVE RESIDENTIAL CITY ON EARTH, BUT A FILM TWENTY TIMES MORE PROFITABLE (IE 'CHAUDHVIN KA CHAND' IN 1960, ONE OF THE BIGGEST BLOCKBUSTERS IN INDIAN HISTORY!) CAUSES THE SAME PRODUCTION COMPANY TO REACH THE VERGE OF TOTAL BANKRUPTCY & TAKE-OVER JUST THE NEXT TO NEXT YEAR!

Also Devi Dutt’s full story seeming a further half-truth too, as nowhere mentions about Guru Dutt’s  heart pain on that day, which was apparent to all those around him! That too when he’s supposed to then have gone shopping with his brother Devi, from the studios, before reaching home, spending a good 2 hours with him for sure in the process, yet not mentioning a word on his highly discomforting heart condition to his own brother!??

Now onto his emotional state of being. By what we’ve heard from Shyam Kapoor, he seemed most relaxed, & far from disturbed. Further given how he went shopping with his brother on his way home, shows how he was in a very normal worldly space too.

So either Shyam Kapoor, or Devi Dutt, & certainly Abrar Alvi, & Guru Dutt’s cook, are lying through their teeth in all this!

One thing we do notice though- It almost seems as if the entire larger Guru Dutt family, reveled in Guru Dutt dying of suicide, in front of the world,  as also seen from his own sister’s near-glorification of her brother’s (so-called) terrible mental condition, at every given turn. Let’s just call it their amateurish way of honoring artistic brilliance & genius, & leave it at that.

And to put aside, the one lingering postulated theory on Guru’s supposed extra-marital affair with Waheeda Rehman, causing him to separate from his wife. - Anyone observing this relationship over the many decades we’ve seen Waheeda ji talk about it first hand, will know how twas purely & purely a student-teacher bond (and actors are known to have more emotional bonds with their colleagues than in other professions anyway generally), unless we’re forced to believe Waheeda ji to be the greatest actress on earth off-screen too, for half a century and more, & in a very shady context at that.

Also, to the fashionable persisting rumor of Guru Dutt having made ‘Kaagaz Ke Phool’ as an autobiography to mourn his broken marriage on account of Waheeda-

Anyone, & not just Waheeda ji who’s clarified it innumerable times, with a purist bent of cinematic heart & brain, will tell you, how it was a direct Indian adaptation of 1954′s massive Hollywood Judy Garland blockbuster ‘A Star Is Born’, also accommodating scenes, perhaps, from his encounter with Master Nissar during it’s filming, as Indies has blogged on before!

(Below is pic of ‘malkin’ of Guru Dutt Prods, Geeta Dutt, attending her film’s ‘mahurat’ accompanied by her husband Guru Dutt)

Also, whatever all these shady characters around keep telling us about his previous suicide attempts, many of whom have been shown to be blatant & cunning liars, at various points in this blog, I, I, REJECT THE THEORY THAT GURU DUTT EVEN ONCE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ALL LIFE !

The reason for Geeta & Guru Dutt separating, can be attributed to a combination of all the factors  that does lead to such drifts in relationships generally, including Guru Dutt’s mother having a dislike for Geeta Dutt & spending her time trying to break the couple up, as alleged by Guru Dutt’s eldest son Tarun Dutt in an article for “Cine Blitz” magazine in 1980′s (it’s excerpts appended at bottom), & as also alluded to by Guru’s younger brother Devi as to the families playing a part in their separation, ...  but nothing unique beyond it, as far as we can see, as also given how Geeta was doing reasonably well for her career even during her marriage, & did give some of the most classic, everlasting & eternal songs for Guru Dutt’s films, during this time, whilst also averaging 125-130 songs per year all thru her husband’s life (ie with no restriction from her husband on singing outside) (info available via simple wiki search)!!!

Now onto larger objectives- Given that 2 independent sources have confirmed that Guru Dutt was indeed at Guru Dutt Studios till evening of Oct 9, 1964, we can more confidently start believing it, as also given the many loopholes in alternative theory proposed by Abrar Alvi & Guru Dutt’s cook. Question now arises as to why that (now rubbished) theory was proposed in the first place? What was so unacceptable to ‘them’, at having Guru Dutt die of a heart attack? It wasn’t as if this was an impossible or unimaginable occurrence, even at the age of 39 then? Even Guru’s brother Devi who’s finally come out to accept the theory that Guru was at studios that day, stops short of completely endorsing Shyam Kapoor’s theory of Guru staying there till evening or experiencing heart trouble since Oct 9 morning.

  Why did they instead want him dying of a sleeping pill & booze overdose since the early evening of Oct 9??? All this while, we know from Kishore Kumar's death analysis, how these heart attacks (as also experienced by Guru Dut that day) can also be induced in Bollywood! Was this all per a script given by some master planner?

This clearly was being done to bring firstly his mental health into the picture, secondly his failed marriage into the picture, & in such away, surely then drag his wife into the picture too!

This plan, by whomsoever that we don’t know about,  had something to do with publicly straining the bond btwn Geeta & Guru to such an extent, that Geeta would be ashamed to even come near any of Guru’s properties after his death?? Geeta is even badmouthed in one of her extended family’s interview above saying Geeta became a charasi, & a drug addict, who took drugs in the morning & afternoon, & heavy booze at night, in few music sittings that a family member himself had to physically keep her from falling over in front of the mike. All this btw while Geeta Dutt sang some of her best songs for 1971’s Anubhav, just a year before her death! Argh, film families!

But wait, why so publicly badmouth & humiliate the widow of your elder brother, & continue with the character assassination after she's passed away too, the wife of an elder brother who was like a father figure to y'all siblings all life, as mentioned in different interviews in print by the family, after the brother's passed away? ..

Furthermore, how was in such dire financial straits, that this legendary singer, a senior star to even Lata Mangeshkar, was forced to cut discs for local Durga pujas, & even act in 2 Bengali films (one released in Dec 1965 & another in 1967), for a living, (btw, what of that posh luxury high-rise at 48 Pali Hill?) all this while Guru Dutt Productions was very much afloat (& one would’ve imagined thriving big time, after Chaudhvin Ka Chand!?) & she surely a part of it's profits!? The Production House was infact so publicly thriving by 1968 that a whole high rise building named 'Guru Dutt Apartments' was soon constructed, by the new controller of Guru Dutt Productions, Guru's brother Atmaram, at prime land in Versova, with some of the most expensive properties prices on earth, even giving away ownership of flats in it to the permanent staff of Guru Dutt Productions, incl Shyam Kapoor (above)! .. And also, if she was in such a deep state of nervous breakdown borne of mourning & regret from her husband’s death (remember that last Guru Dutt suicide threat we have been peddled with all life?), that she supposedly couldn't even recognize her kids for 6 months, followed by her continued disorientation thereafter, so much that couldn’t even stand on her own later (as told by various publications online, incl the above Devi intvw), how did she then appear as a heroine in a Bengali film called 'Malajanjha' released on Dec 10, 1965, for which she would've surely started in early 1965, just 2-3 months after her husband's death, & another film 'Bodhu Baran' released on Jan 1, 1967 ? ......... All this was obviously being done to JUSTIFY HER UNNATURAL TOTAL DISAPPEARANCE FROM THE PLAYBACK SINGING SCENE AFTER GURU'S DEATH (she barely sang 4 songs a year on avg, in the playback scene, in all the remaining 8 yrs of her life).

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And to further debunk claims of her bad singing health & overall health 1965 onwards, below is a 2015 video interview of Geeta Dutt's real kid brother Milan Roy Chowdhury stating how Geeta was attending blockbuster sell-out concerts all across the West Indies, in 1966 , singing 25-30 songs non-stop at each choc-a-bloc pit-stop of the tour, with admirable energy & zest as complimented on by all & sundry present there, per Milan,  to regalia & jubilation from the Hindi Music crazy crowds there, as witnessed by Milan himself, who Geeta had called over to be with her all through the West Indies tour, from  Michigan, USA, where he was studying then, (infact he narrates the incident of how Geeta organized to have his student brother's ticket pre-booked, pre-paid, & ready for his mere pick-up at his Detroit airport desk itself, right from West Indies) & there are even photographs of Milan with Geeta from the hotel room from that big 1966 West Indies tour on Facebook (infact evidenced on the thumbnail of the below video itself).

Geeta Dutt was clearly in absolutely perfect physical, mental & emotional (& also good monetary for sure too) (& by herself) health, ALL THROUGHOUT THE LATTER HALF OF THE 60s, totally contrary to the claims made by Devi et al!

(Watch 14:00-17:00 of Milan Roy Chowdhury’s interview)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2lI32H4Y4c

(Also watch from 21'-24' on how Geeta always was a very warm & kind-hearted, jovial, & fun-loving person, fluent in many languages, & full of energy & joi de vivre.)

Below are stills from Geeta Dutt's 2nd Bengali film 'Badhu Baran'  released in 1967, paired opposite Pradeep Kumar!

This film incidentally also marked the debut of Raakhee in Indian Cinema.

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Below is Geeta Dutt hosting a radio prog for soldiers IN 1969.

👇 a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLyccOZ5vM4

b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELoHx_UTKNg&list=PLB9B4264417853926&index=1

Another pic of a plumper Geeta Dutt singing with Mohd Rafi that's come to light, CLEARLY seems FROM 1967, given how we've seen her physical progression, mood of song, & & it being a Rafi duet (from Geeta's discography.

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Below are photo clips from a Geeta Dutt interview IN LATE 1960′S, informing the world of her new innings AS A BOLLYWOOD ACTRESS. that she'd already begun, having been signed to act in a Hindi color film for legendary Dir H.S.Rawail, & also being in discussions for another film with Sunil Dutt.

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And below are her 2 last recorded songs in 1972 for the unreleased film ‘Midnight’, one of them a duet with Talat Mehmood, & the other a beautiful solo, all this while she could (supposedly once again) barely stand for herself & had to be “maar maar ke” made to sing her (super classic btw) songs in 1971′s ‘Anubhav’!

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1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGZAtE2Rww0

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9dRYi3nsNg

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YOU THINK A DRUNKARD & A CHARASI CAN SPEND HER TIME SO PRODUCTIVELY & DO EVEN A FRACTION OF ALL THIS ??!!

This whole after-story seemingly then, most likely, if not certainly, was a plan, by whomsoever, the real perpetrators that we don’t know of,  some masterminds, TO FINISH OFF & MAKE PITIABLE, THE LEGACY OF, both ‘Romeo & Juliet’ in every way possible, & in one fell swoop.

But who could’ve had a problem with both Geeta Dutt & Guru Dutt at the same time?? One thing Geeta was benefiting from Guru, was in bagging the choicest, plummest & most eternal songs coming from his stables. Did someone resent that aspect?? But who ??

And so be fair then, if we collectively end this blog, by expressing our serious doubts over the naturalness of the 1972 death of one of India’s oldest star singers, Geeta Dutt too, at age 41, at this juncture, supposedly as told by media from liver cirrhosis caused from heavy decades-long alcohol addiction! - the wrong couple in the wrong half of the wrongest century in modern Indian history! 

(& 1972 also when, OP Nayyar, Geeta's mentor composer, suddenly announces his retirement from Bollywood!)

Did You Know:

Guru Dutt's eldest son Tarun Dutt also(supposedly)"committed suicide" barely into his 30s,in the 1980′s, a successful director himself of the 1985 Rekha-starrer 'Bindiya Chamkegi'! ! Tarun had just before written an article in "Cine Blitz" titled 'Was Guru Dutt Murdered?'-alleging people high up in the Bombay Film Industry as being involved in the plot!

BOLLYWOOD SUCCESS, W/O ANY ‘HIDDEN INVESTMENTS’ TO ACQUIRE SUCH SUCCESSES, ONCE AGAIN, SHOWN TO BE UNSUSTAINABLE.

HENCE PROVEN..

Guru Dutt was right after all. "Aisi duniya mil bhi jaye toh kya hai”

 🎵  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC2BcEyrOjU  🎵

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Reshma Aur Shera

Reshma Aur Shera is an Indian drama film directed by Sunil Dutt and released in 1971. The movie stars Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Sanjeev Kumar, and Ajit. The story revolves around the two female leads, Reshma (Waheeda Rehman) and Shera (Sanjeev Kumar) who are in love with each other, but their families are against their union. Reshma and Shera must find a way to be together despite the…

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Top 5 Out of the Box Sonam Kapoor Movies

Sonam kapoor Indian actress Ahuja performs in Hindi-language movies. She has received a National Film Award and a Filmfare Award, and from 2012 to 2016, she was listed among Forbes India's Celebrity 100 based on her popularity and earnings.

Fashion and Sonam Kapoor go hand in hand. And enjoyment too. It's no secret that we enjoy Sonam Kapoor's choice of entertaining films to act in. Her films frequently have a carefree, sunny, perfect day feel. Popcorn movies at their very best.

Aisha

Rajshree Ojha is the director of the 2010 Hindi-language romantic comedy-drama Aisha. Sonam Kapoor, Abhay Deol, Ira Dubey, Cyrus Sahukar, Amrita Puri, Anand Tiwari, Arunoday Singh, and Lisa Haydon are all part of the ensemble cast in this comedy of manners. It is a version of Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma and is set in the upper-class society of Delhi, India. It has the same tone as the cult Hollywood movie Clueless (1995), which is also an adaptation of Austen's book. Aisha, which debuted on August 6, 2010, had a mediocre box office performance. Critics gave it mixed to favourable reviews. She characterised her persona as an intrusive diva with a penchant for playing Cupid and matchmaking.

2.Neerja

The 2016 Indian biographical thriller film Neerja, which was written by Saiwyn Quadras and Sanyuktha Chawla Shaikh, was directed by Ram Madhvani. The narrative is based on a true incident: the attempted hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 by the Abu Nidal Organization, which was supported by Libya, on September 5, 1986 in Karachi, Pakistan. The head purser of the flight, Neerja Bhanot, who stopped the hijack attempt by warning the pilots and forcing them to ground the aircraft, is portrayed in the movie. Bhanot lost his life while attempting to save the 359 survivors among the 379 passengers and crew. She played the role of the air hostess Neerja Bhanot, who perished in 1986 while attempting to save the passengers of Pan Am Flight 73, which had been hijacked.

Since the project is based on actual events, Kapoor felt a sense of responsibility towards it. As part of her role preparation, she met the Bhanot family. The movie received a lot of positive reviews, and many critics thought that Kapoor gave her best performance to date. According to Raja Sen, her performance was a career-defining moment, and Rohit Vats of the Hindustan Times observed that "she carries entirely on her shoulder." She conveys a mixture of sincere, fear, goodwill, and boldness. Rajeev Masand invited Kapoor to his yearly best actresses roundtable, and Sen named Kapoor the best actress in Hindi film of 2016. In addition to numerous other honours, Kapoor received a Special Mention for a National Film Award and a Filmfare Award for Best Actress (Critics).

3. Raanjhanaa

Beloved One, also known as Raanjhanaa, is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film that was written and directed by Aanand L. Rai. Kapoor played the part of Varanasi-based Muslim student Zoya Haider, who becomes involved in politics as a result of the murder of her Sikh lover. Kapoor met with students, went to workshops, and practised with theatre groups affiliated with Jawaharlal Nehru University in order to get ready for her role. Additionally, she looked at Jaya Bachchan's performance in Guddi (1971), which she thought was "ideal" for the part. In response to a question about her role in the movie, Kapoor gave the following explanation of her acting style: "I have always tried to do diverse films and… I strive to be different for every character. The film was superhit at box office.

4. Delhi 6

Rakesh Omprakash Mehra is the director of the 2009 drama film Delhi-6, which was made in Hindi. Abhishek Bachchan plays an NRI in the movie who travels to India with his elderly grandmother (Waheeda Rehman) and starts learning about his ancestry before becoming involved in a religious issue involving an unknown attacker who resembles a monkey. After receiving its world debuts at the Museum of Modern Art and the Dubai International Film Festival, Delhi-6 was finally released on February 20, 2009, to critical and box office acclaim. Although it did poorly financially, it earned mixed reviews from critics, who praised the soundtrack and the cast's performances while criticising the plot, writing, and pacing. Best Production Design went to Delhi-6 at the 57th National Film Awards (Samir Chanda).

5. Veere Di Wedding

Female buddy comedy Veere Di Wedding is a 2018 Hindi-language movie that was produced by Rhea Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor, and Nikhil Dwivedi and directed by Shashanka Ghosh. Starring Kareena Kapoor Khan, Sonam K. Ahuja, Swara Bhaskar, and Shikha Talsania as four friends attending a wedding, the movie is loosely based on the 2015 movie The Wedding Ringer. On June 1, 2018, Veere Di Wedding was released in theatres to mixed reviews. The movie, which had a budget of $28,000,000, ended up earning over 139,000,000 globally, making it the highest-grossing Hindi film of the year and the biggest for a movie with female leads. At the 64th Filmfare Awards, it garnered three nominations, including Best Supporting Actress for Talsania and Bhaskar.

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Mira Rajput Turns Photographer With Husband Shahid Kapoor As Her Muse. See Post

Mira Rajput Turns Photographer With Husband Shahid Kapoor As Her Muse. See Post

Shahid Kapoor shared this picture. (courtesy: shahidkapoor) New Delhi: Shahid Kapoor treated his Insta family to a dashing picture of himself liked by none other than his wife, Mira Rajput. In the image, Shahid can be seen posing against the colourful wall that has murals of veteran actresses Helen and Waheeda Rehman. The actress looks dashing in a beige T-shirt paired with blue jeans and white…

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Mira Rajput Turns Photographer With Husband Shahid Kapoor As Her Muse. See Post

Mira Rajput Turns Photographer With Husband Shahid Kapoor As Her Muse. See Post

Shahid Kapoor shared this picture. (courtesy: shahidkapoor) New Delhi: Shahid Kapoor treated his Insta family to a dashing picture of himself liked by none other than his wife, Mira Rajput. In the image, Shahid can be seen posing against the colourful wall that has murals of veteran actresses Helen and Waheeda Rehman. The actress looks dashing in a beige T-shirt paired with blue jeans and white…

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Waheeda Rehman brings grace, Sunny Deol shares an emotional moment with son Karan, Rajveer. watch

Waheeda Rehman brings grace, Sunny Deol shares an emotional moment with son Karan, Rajveer. watch

r balkic‘s Quiet: Revenge of the Artist Releasing in cinemas today. The filmmaker held a special screening for the cast of the film – Pooja Bhatt, Shreya Dhanwantri, Sunny Deol and Dulquer Salmaan — and his family and friends from the film industry earlier this week. During the screening, Sunny was seen sharing a warm moment with her sons Rajveer and Karan, who hugged her after the screening of…

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“Shagoon”  /  1964  /  Waheeda Rehman and Kamaljeet (Shashi Rekhy)

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Inside Helen's Birthday Party: Salman Khan and Family Celebrates with Waheeda Rehman, Asha Parekh

Inside Helen’s Birthday Party: Salman Khan and Family Celebrates with Waheeda Rehman, Asha Parekh

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DAY 4730

Jalsa, Mumbai                       Feb 10,  2021                  Wed 10:25 PM

Birthday - EF - Gaurav Kumar Kulshreshtha  .. Mario Andrew Rodrigues .. Rishi Vij .. Thursday, February 11 .. and the love and affection of the entire Ef family for this special day ..

... this is the direct intended connect with the day of the day .. a look into the eyes of the Ef , seeking their attention for all the patience they have shown all these past few days when I have not been regular in the rel sense of the BlogWord .. 

.. work has been arduous .. the tenacity required for the deemed performance has to be done with the makers in order that the job is secured and that the reason for their hiring me is not irresponsive or inadequate .. else you loose the next ..

.. belief and the advantage of fortune does go hand in hand in the profession that we are involved in .. and a pretty face would help .. but ..

.. it isn’t always the case .. 

.. there are tremendously good looking faces in the Industry and all have had a fantastic response and following .. mix that with the talent they all possess and that is a phenomenal combination .. 

.. the strategy for the put has however been the recurrence of success at the box office mixed with the following .. the presence and looks add value .. the talent and performance gives it added boost .. 

.. and then the most important element - the admirers .. they make and break the artist .. not for them then would artists be in the place of recognition .. so they be the best talent in the career graph of the artist .. divine dedicated and in deep attachment ..

.. strange is it not .. that the very first admiration remains everlasting .. not to say that the admiration for others wanes or is discontinued .. no .. it remains and is appreciative and loved  .. but that first one remains despite, or inspite should one say ..

.. so there will be Dilip Kumar and Waheeda Rehman and Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift and James Dean .. in the realm of the deepest admiration and personal following .. and remain they be for the rest of life .. 

.. yes there is great admiration for the talent that suddenly erupts on the horizon and defeats all else .. but the first remain .. that first love that first car that first geombox , the first pen, the ink pen , and it goes on and on and on ..

.. and from that writing ‘on and on and on’ 

..  suddenly the writing stops to ruminate that incident .. 

.. Mehboob Saheb,  the majestic, iconic and incredible Mehboob Saheb,  made a film with Dilip Kumar ..’AAN’ .. historic here , so much, that the makers went off to Hollywood to show it to the counterparts there ..

.. at the screening held in the presence of one of the great Producers of the time and Mehboob saheb and Dilip Saheb, the Hollywood Producer Director owner turned to Mehboob Saheb, after being asked what he thought of the film said :

‘Whats the name of the film ..?”

He was told , its called AAN ..  and when asked what he thought of it he said :

“ Well .. it just goes on and on and on  .. ‘

.. a deliberation from the Hindi word AAN .. to ON  .. phonetically similar .. when spoken in that deliberate American accent .. 

.. Mehboob Saheb , who was English challenged, turned to Dilip Saheb and asked :

‘kya bola ye ..?’

Dilip Saheb in his gentlest replied .. ‘ usne kaha , picture thodi lambi hai ..’!!

Mehboob Saheb , a man of great personal wealth of talent and pride in his creativity - he has been one of our greats - did not waste a minute after hearing this , wrapped up the film reels from the projection room and walked out and back to Bombay , India ..

..’isko kya samajh hai ..?’  was his eventual refrain apparently .. which I must admit has been the obvious refrain from most western film makers, who still chide or remark obtusely, on the non realistic fantasised film making from this part of the World .. which I must also admit has undergone a sea change in the past several years .. but yes the chide and the ‘not to be taken seriously’ comment remains .. until .. until .. until ..

THE ECONOMY OPENED UP .. 

.. and India with its 1.3  billion ‘buyers’ capability struck like lightning the foreign western capitalist powers that be .. and suddenly INDIA became ‘not such a bad place after all’ .. 

it was no more the land of the ‘fakir’ and the ‘snake charmers’ .. it was the ‘consumer potential’ land of the New Frontier .. 

.. suddenly India gets projected as the new economic power within the next 5 years  .. among the top 3 of the World .. 

.. and Hollywood starts to release its films at times on the same day as in the rest of the World - an unheard of phenomena earlier - in most of the prominent dubbed languages of the Country ..

At a YPO event in Mumbai some years back, where I was invited as the Chief Guest - a designation I hate - when the programme was thrown open to the guests in the hall of about 500, to ask questions or any queries they had for me ..  one stood up quite bravely and asked :

“ when is Bollywood going to make a film like Hollywood  ?”

I replied .. ‘when is Hollywood going to make a film like the Indian Film Industry ..’ 

RAPTUROUS APPLAUSE AND CHEERING .. 🤣🤣🤣

.. that kind of summed up the evening .. 

.. and it kind of sums up this evening too .. early morning call for work , to work on film that makes India proud .. and hopefully the rest of the World 

good night .. shubh ratri .. 🙏🙏

Amitabh Bachchan 

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2020 Movie Odyssey Award for Best Original Song (final round)

(Yet again, tumblr has not fixed bullet indentations. So this post doesn’t look as clean on your dashboards.)

TAGGING (among others): @addaellis, @cokwong, @emilylime5, @halfwaythruthedark, @idontknowmuchaboutmovies, @introspectivemeltdown, @maximiliani, @memetoilet, @monkeysmadeofcheese, @myluckyerror, @plus-low-overthrow, @shootingstarvenator, @themusicmoviesportsguy, @theybecomestories, @umgeschrieben, @underblackwings, @voicetalentbrendan​, @thewolfofelectricavenue, and @yellanimal.

I would also like to tag some followers/previous participants as well who I also would welcome to participate in this final round: @birdsongvelvet​, @bitch-genius​, @dog-of-ulthar​, @loveless422​, @lvl9gay​, @mehetibel​, @phendranaedge​, @poncho-honcho​, @sayaf​, @shadesofhappy​, @thethirdman8​, @uncoolforelimb​, and @wehadfacesthen​. Regardless of whether you were tagged or not, all of my followers can participate if they wish.

Happy Holidays to all! After a fascinating preliminary round, now begins the final round to 2020's Movie Odyssey Award for Best Original Song (MOABOS). This is the eighth time it has been contested and the seventh year it has been open to involvement from family, friends, and tumblr followers. I begin every new year not knowing whether I will be able to share with all of you these songs and the movies they come from around November/December. So on the day that MOABOS becomes viable (usually around mid-year), it's a long stretch of anticipation to this point.

For those who have never participated in this before, my classic movie blog traditionally ends the year by honoring some of the best achievements from movies that I saw for the first time this calendar year (the "Movie Odyssey"; rewatches do not count) with an Oscar-like ceremony. I choose all the nominees and winners from each category, save one: Best Original Song. It is the only category I can think of that does not require you to watch several movies in their entirety. I know some of you wonder why I bother with this quixotic social experiment. But I have always considered it a sort of cinematic-musical thank-you for your moral support in various ways - in the hopes of introducing to all of you films and music you may not have otherwise encountered or sought. A small slice of the 2020 Movie Odyssey, so to speak.

This final will be contested by sixteen songs. As I've mentioned before, for the first time ever, there are no MOABOS entries originating from this year that made the competition - a MOABOS first. I have seen one 2020 film since the prelim (Wolfwalkers... at a drive-in mind you), but this entire final is one of yesteryear. Even without any 1930s songs, this year's final is probably the oldest on average. There are some very recognizable songs that made it straight to the final, bypassing the preliminary; those songs are contained within. Among them, a city anthem and a song that should be a city's anthem. Elsewhere, this is the first final to ever feature two classic Bollywood songs - but no classic Bollywood song has ever cracked the top ten. Elvis has three songs in this final, a MOABOS joint record along with Prince and the Bee Gees (both in 2016). But also appearing in multiple entries are Frank Sinatra and Liza Minnelli, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday. With five non-English-language songs in the final, this year’s final ties 2017 with the largest contingent of finalists not in the English language.

INSTRUCTIONS Please rank (#1-16) your choices in order. The top ten songs will receive nominations. The tabulation method used in the preliminary round is being used for the final only as the second tiebreaker (the tabulation method that will be used principally for the final - aka "single transferable vote" - is described in the “read more” at the bottom). There is no minimum or maximum amount of songs you can rank, but because of the nature of single transferable vote, it is highly recommended to rank as many songs as possible, rather than only one or two. Those who rank fewer songs run a greater risk of their ballots being discarded in the later rounds of tabulation. Again, this is all described in the “read more”.

Please consider to the best of your ability: how musically interesting the song is (incl. and not limited to musical phrasing and orchestration); its lyrics; context within the film (contextual blurbs provided for every entry for those who haven't seen the films); choreography/dance direction (if applicable); and the song's cultural impact/life outside the film (if applicable, and, in my opinion, least important factor). Imperfections in audio and video quality may not be used against any song. I encourage you to send in comments and reactions with your rankings - it makes the process more enjoyable for you and myself!

The deadline for submission is Thursday, December 31 at 8 PM Pacific Time. That is 6 PM Hawaii/Aleutian Time / 10 PM Central / 11 PM Eastern. That deadline is also Friday, January 1 at 2 AM GMT / 3 AM CET / 4 AM EET. This deadline has been pushed back two consecutive times due to a sizable non-response rate - but I very much do not want to do so again.

I have compiled most of this final round's songs into this YouTube playlist. Please note that neither of Kaagaz Ke Phool’s two songs are contained in the playlist. You will need to access them using their respective links.

Enjoy the music! Feel free to listen as many times as you need, and I hope you discover music and movies you may have never otherwise heard of that you find fascinating. The following is formatted... ("Song title", composer and lyricist, film title):

2020 MOVIE ODYSSEY AWARD FOR BEST ORIGINAL SONG – FINAL ROUND

“Angela”, music and lyrics by José Feliciano and Janna Merlyn Feliciano, Aaron Loves Angela (1975)

Performed by José Feliciano

(English-language version) / (Spanish single version)

Played over the opening credits to this teenage drama that is partly a blaxploitation film, partly an interracial coming-of-age romance. The movie wasn't a hit, but the Spanish-language version of this song was received well in Latin America.

“Blue Shadows on the Trail”, music and lyrics by Eliot Daniel and Johnny Lange, Melody Time (1948)

Performed by Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers

This is the introductory song to the final segment of Melody Time. That segment is dedicated to the legend of Pecos Bill, and this atmospheric song leads into the telling of that story.

“Can’t Help Falling in Love”, music and lyrics by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss, Blue Hawaii (1961)

Performed by Elvis Presley

(film version) / (single version)

Chadwick "Chad" Gates (Elvis) has just returned to his home state of Hawai'i after a stint in the Army. Not wanting to work on his father's pineapple plantation (seriously), he rekindles his relationship with his girlfriend, Maile (Joan Blackman). This song is sung as an accompaniment to a music box he gives to Maile's grandmother (Flora Kaai Hayes, a former Hawaiian Territorial Representative to the U.S. House). This song is among Elvis' best-known and most widely-covered.

“Dekhi Zamaane Ki Yaari / Bichhde Sabhi Baari Baari”, music by S.D. Burman, lyrics by Kaifi Azmi, Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959, India)

Performed by Mohammad Rafi (dubbing Guru Dutt)

Lyrics in Hindi - roughly, "I Have Seen How Deeply Friendship Lies / I Have Seen People Abandon Me One by One"

Part 1 (3:44-8:27) / Part 2 (2:16:29-2:20:42)

Make sure to turn on the video’s English captions

In this romantic tragedy, Suresh Sinha (Dutt) is a washed-up director looking back on his life. In the first part, the song leads into the rest of the film - which is almost entirely a flashback. In brief, Suresh is unhappily married to a woman whose in-laws look down on him because, to them, working in films is contemptible to their social class. Suresh meets a woman, Shanti (Waheeda Rehman), on accident and she is soon cast as the lead for his next film. They fall in love, but it is never consummated for various reasons. Eventually, his career crashes after a box office bomb and her career is ascendant. Leading into the second part of the song, Suresh is penniless and working as an extra at the movie studio. Shanti recognizes him, wants to help, but he refuses to revive his career on the back of her success. Kaagaz Ke Phool has elements of autobiography, and Suresh's fate has parallels with what happened to Dutt after this film was released.

“(Do You Know What It Means to Miss) New Orleans”, music by Louis Alter, lyrics by Edgar De Lange, New Orleans (1947)

Initially performed by Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong and his band; reprised by various

(initial film performance) / (Louis Armstrong single version)

Endie (Holiday in her only appearance in a feature film) is a maid to the affluent Smith family, whose matriarch looks down on jazz as a disreputable genre of music. In secret, Endie frequents a gambling and jazz establishment in the historic Storyville district of New Orleans and performs here with Louis Armstrong (playing himself) and others when she gets the chance. The matriarch's daughter (Dorothy Patrick), an classical operatic soprano, is transfixed by this new music she has never heard before.

“ Exsultate Justi”, music and lyrics by John Williams, Empire of the Sun (1987)

Performed by orchestra and chorus under the direction of Williams

Lyrics in Latin

In this historical epic, affluent British school boy Jamie Graham (a young Christian Bale) is living with his parents in Shanghai when the Japanese invade. Jamie is separated from his parents and placed in an internment camp. Soon before the end of WWII, the prisoners are moved elsewhere, but Jamie hides and stays put. This song plays as Jamie bikes around the empty camp and continues to play as he encounters liberating U.S. troops. Jamie is dirty and malnourished when found; one can argue that this song is used ironically. It plays once more over the end credits. "Exsultate Justi" is a variation on a theme John Williams develops over the course of the film and harkens back to Jamie's past, attending Anglican services with parents.

“Farewell to Storyville",  music by Louis Alter, lyrics by Edgar De Lange, New Orleans (1947)

Performed by Louis Armstrong and his band, Billie Holiday, and company

In New Orleans, the Storyville district was a den of drinking, gambling, jazz, and prostitution. The district was the home to a heavily black populace. The U.S. military, about to establish a Naval base nearby, forces the city to close the district for good. This song is a swinging dirge to a center of jazz - a musical genre looked down upon by many of the city's upper-class whites due to its ties (real and imagined) to crime.

“Happy Endings", music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, New York, New York (1977)

Performed by Liza Minnelli and company (that's Jack Haley - who played the Tin Man and was, at the time, Minnelli's father-in-law - roughly seven minutes in)

(use in film) / (soundtrack version)

It is highly recommended one sees how this song is used in the film. Bear with me: this song is part of a movie within a movie. Within that movie within a movie, there is another movie. "Happy Endings" is the title end song to a film called Happy Endings within New York, New York. Singer Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli) has made it big as a recording artist and caps off her hit film, Happy Endings, with this song. We see Francine's ex, played by Robert De Niro, in the audience as the film ends. "Happy Endings" is a homage/deconstruction to midcentury Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) musicals. It serves the film as "The Broadway Melody" does to Singin' in the Rain (1952) or the 17-minute ballet does to conclude An American in Paris (1951).

“Here They Come (From All Over the World)", music and lyrics by P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri, The T.A.M.I. Show (1964)

Performed by Jan and Dean

The link above provides the entire film. You only need to watch from 0:00-4:11. If you like music from this era or want to hear more, this film is highly, highly recommended.

This is the opening credits song to a concert film recorded over two days in Santa Monica, California on October 28 and 29, 1964. The Teenage Awards Music International (T.A.M.I. - yes, I know it's an awkward name) Show included many of the most popular musical stars of that time - almost all of them name-dropped in this song. Jan and Dean, a surf music duo, served as hosts (and performed during) the show. You folks are lucky that this is the only original song from this film!

“Is There Still Anything That Love Can Do?", music and lyrics by Yôjirô Noda, Weathering with You (2019, Japan)

Performed by RADWIMPS

Lyrics in Japanese (translation)

Weathering with You is a romantic fantasy anime about a high school boy who runs away from his rural home to Tokyo, where he meets a girl who can manipulate the weather. It has been inexplicably raining for weeks without interruption in Tokyo, so they form a business to help clear the inclement weather for special events. The melody of this song is heard throughout the film's score. It does not appear with lyrics until late in the film. The song is played under the boy's seemingly impossible attempt to save her from an unwilling human sacrifice.

There is so much plot in this damn film (it's all Makoto Shinkai's fault) - I can't explain the context of the song or this movie in a reasonable amount of space.

“Moonlight Swim”, music by Ben Weisman, lyrics by Sylvia Dee, Blue Hawaii (1961)

Performed by Elvis Presley

In a musical packed end-to-end with songs, Chadwick "Chad" Gates (Elvis) has taken a job with a tour guide agency. On his first day, he drives his first clients - a school teacher (who not so secretly is attracted to Chad) and four teenagers (one of whom becomes smitten) - to their destination.

“Personality”, music by Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by Johnny Burke, Road to Utopia (1946)

Performed by Dorothy Lamour

(in-film performance) / (live radio performance)

In the fourth film of the Road to... comedy series, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby's characters have just overpowered two Alaskan thugs with a history of murderous violence. As they enter a saloon dressed up as those two thugs, all of the patrons - in a town that only knows the thugs by reputation - shut up in terror. They are treated to a performance by Sal (Lamour), who is trying to find a map of a gold mine that the real outlaws supposedly have. A visual narrator (Robert Benchley) interrupts the scene before the song briefly.

“Please Don’t Stop Loving Me”, music and lyrics by Joy Byers, Frankie and Johnny (1966)

Performed by Elvis Presley

(in-film performance) / (single version)

Johnny (Elvis) and girlfriend Frankie (Donna Douglas) work on a Mississippi River riverboat as performers. Johnny is addicted to gambling and believes that another woman is spurring on his recent run of good luck. During a fit of jealousy-as-acting, Frankie accidentally shoots Johnny during a bit of musical theater (someone switched out the blanks for real bullets). This song occurs after Johnny has recovered from the accident.

“Theme from New York, New York”, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, New York, New York (1977)

Performed by Liza Minnelli

(in-film performance) / (Frank Sinatra single)

For most of the film, saxophone player Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro) is trying to compose a song but cannot figure out the lyrics (this plays out as a subplot). His eventual girlfriend/later ex, Francine Evans (Minnelli) provides said lyrics. Some time well after they have broken up, he finds her singing this song - which he previously brought to the top of the jazz charts - in the nightclub where they first met. This film flopped (musical movies were out of fashion by the mid-'70s, and a musical didn't seem "on brand" for director Martin Scorsese). But the Frank Sinatra single popularized this song, and it has been used in many venues of popular culture.

“Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam”, music and lyrics by S.D. Burman, Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959, India)

Performed by Geeta Dutt (dubbing Waheeda Rehman)

Lyrics in Hindi - roughly, "Time Has Inflicted Such Sweet Cruelty On Us"

Song begins at 1:03:31 and ends at 1:07:51

Make sure to turn on the video’s English captions

In this romantic tragedy told in flashback, Suresh Sinha (Guru Dutt) is a director looking back on his life. Suresh is unhappily married to a woman whose in-laws look down on him because, to them, working in films is contemptible to their social class. Suresh meets a woman, Shanti (Waheeda Rehman), on accident and she is soon cast as the lead for his next film. They fall in love, but it is never consummated for various reasons. This song is the most explicit statement of that love in this film. How much of the scene's set-up is observable by the characters is up to the viewer's interpretation.

“You Make Me Feel So Young”, music by Josef Myrow, lyrics by Mack Gordon, Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

Performed by Del Porter (dubbing Charles Smith) and Carol Stewart (dubbing Vera-Ellen)

(use in film) / (Frank Sinatra cover)

In this rarely-seen musical (*insert plea to Disney to restore the massive 20th Century Fox catalogue they now own and are almost certainly neglecting*), three chicken farmer sisters decide to travel to Atlantic City in hopes of marrying a rich husband when they learn their aunt's inheritance is not nearly as much as they want. There, youngest sister Myra (Vera-Ellen) - despite the sisters' original intentions of marrying men of wealth - becomes involved with a waiter named Mike (Charles Smith). They go on a date, and they sing this song. A somewhat overly-literal fantastical dancing sequence ensues, complete with Vera-Ellen's dancing skills. This song was popularized by Frank Sinatra years later and has long enjoyed status as a big band/jazz standard.

Contact me however you wish if you have questions or comments regarding MOABOS' processes or something specific about a song or a few. Please let me know as soon as possible if you are having difficulty accessing one of the songs (especially if it is region-locked) or if there is an error in the playlist.

Once more, I thank you all for your support for the Movie Odyssey, the blog, and for me personally - no matter how long I’ve known you or in what capacity. There are no hard feelings if you cannot get to this, although I will be checking in as the deadlines get close. Please wear a mask. Practice social distancing. We'll see each other again on the other side of this pandemic.

TABULATION The winner is determined by a process distinct from the preliminary round. For the final, the winner is chosen by the process known as single transferable vote (the Academy Awards uses this method to choose a Best Picture winner, visually represented here - you should really watch this video if the below doesn’t make sense… which it probably won’t):

All #1 picks from all voters are tabulated. A song needs more than half of all aggregate votes to win (50% of all votes plus one… i.e. if there are thirty respondents, sixteen #1 votes are needed to win on the first count).

If there is no winner after the first count (as is most likely), the song(s) with the fewest #1 votes or points is/are eliminated. Placement will be determined by the tiebreakers described below. Then, we look at the ballots of those who voted for the most recently-eliminated song(s). Their votes then go to the highest-remaining and non-eliminated song on their ballot.

The process described in step #2 repeats until one song has secured 50% plus one of all votes. We keep eliminating nominees and transfer votes to the highest-ranked, non-eliminated song on each ballot. NOTE: It is possible after several rounds of counting that respondents who did not entirely fill in their ballots will have wasted their votes at the end of the process. For example, if a person voted the second-to-last place song as their #1, ranked no other songs, and the count has exceeded two rounds, their ballot is discarded (lowering the vote threshold needed to win), and they have no say in which song ultimately is the winner.

A song wins when it reaches more than fifty percent of all #1 and re-distributed votes.

Tiebreakers: 1) first song to receive 50% plus one of all #1 and transferred votes; 2) total points earned (this was the first tiebreaker in the preliminary round); 3) total #1 votes; 4) average placement on my ballot and my sister’s ballot; 5) tie declared

Previous years’ results for reference: 2013 final 2014 final (input from family and friends began this year) 2015 final 2016 prelim / final 2017 prelim / final 2018 prelim / final 2019 prelim / final

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Remembering Vijay Anand on his 86th birth anniversary.

Vijay Anand(22 January 1934 – 23 February 2004), also known as Goldie Anand, was a filmmaker, producer, screen writer, editor, and actor, who is known for acclaimed films like Guide (1965) and Johny Mera Naam (1970). He made most of his films for the in-house banner Navketan Films and is part of the Anand family.

Vijay Anand was born in Gurdaspur, Punjab, British India to well-to-do advocate Pishori Lal Anand. He was the youngest of the four Anand siblings, including producer and director Chetan Anand and Dev Anand, one of the greatest and most beloved of Hindi film stars, his sister is Sheela Kanta Kapur, who is the mother of acclaimed Indian film director Shekhar Kapur.

Though Vijay Anand has had a career as an actor, screenwriter, editor, and producer, he will primarily be remembered as a director. In 1957, he made his directorial debut with Nau Do Gyarah, which he shot in 40 days.

Some of his successful movies as director are Johny Mera Naam (1970), Jewel Thief (1967), Teesri Manzil (1966), Kala Bazar (1960), Ram Balram, Rajput. Teesri Manzil, which he made for producer Nasir Hussain, was his first non-Navketan film as a director. Some of his major films are Tere Mere Sapne (1971) and Guide (1965). Guide, starring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman is Vijay Anand's most critically acclaimed movie. It is based on R.K. Narayan's novel The Guide. Navketan attempted an international release of a remake of Guide without much success.

Vijay Anand is known for his stylish song picturization, like "O Haseena" (Teesri Manzil ), "Kaaton Se Kheech" (Guide ) and "Honthon Mein Aisi Baat" (Jewel Thief ) numbers.

As an actor, his most memorable roles were in films Haqeeqat (1964), Kora Kagaz (1974), in which he starred opposite Jaya Bachchan, and Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki (1978). 'Chor Chor' was a song-less thriller where Leena Chandavarkar was his heroine. He acted in 'Ghoonghroo Ki Aawaz', 'Double Cross' and 'Chhupa Rustam.'

To the younger generation of the 1990s he is also known for playing detective Sam in the television series Tehkikaat (1994).

He served a short stint as the chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification, India's censor board, a position from which he resigned, in 2002, after he ran into ideological differences with the government over introduction of ratings for adult movies.

He caused a major controversy by marrying his much younger niece. He was in the inner circle of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

Goldie, as he was affectionately called, died on 23 February 2004 due to a heart attack. He was aged 70.

#vijay anand #goldie anand #bollywood #bollywoodirect #dev anand #chetan anand

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Palak Sindhwani aka Sonu from Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah gracefully dances on ‘Piya Tose Naina Lage Re’

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Movie: Skater Girl (2021)

Movie: Skater Girl (2021)

A coming of age story of a rural skater girl. Prerna, a teenager growing up in rural India, comes of age when she’s introduced to the sport of skateboarding. As a result, she has to fight the odds to follow her dreams and compete in the national championship. Skater Girl (2021) Genre: Drama, Family, Sport Release Date: Jun 11, 2021 Stars: Amy Maghera, Waheeda Rehman, Rachel Saanchita…

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