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Helen ruled the 60s and 70s, emerging in a bold avatar with dramatic ensembles. The 80s saw the trend of heroines appear in item numbers with Zeenat Aman in Qurbani (1980).
Aug 14, 2021 · While during the late ’60s and early ’70s Hindi cinema witnessed the dominance of romantic movies with actors like Rajesh Khanna, Shashi Kapoor, Dharmendra and actresses like Sharmila Tagore and Asha Parekh becoming household names, by the mid-1970s a new kind of hero emerged who was not identified by his chocolate boy image but by his ...
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1948: The country’s first nationwide megahit Chandralekha is released, which borrows heavily from dancer Uday Shankar’s Kalpana (Bengali), both shot at Gemini Studios. The latter flopped. But the idea of a movie revolving around dance was born, leading to V. Shantaram's Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje in 1955. 1952: Vijay Bhatt’s Baiju Bawra transforms t...
1960: K. Asif’s long-awaited and lavishly mounted Mughal-e-Azamfinally arrives to a rapturous welcome. Madhubala steals the show with a riveting performance in this enduring masterpiece. 1960:Meghe Dhaka Tara, Ritwik Ghatak’s sombre tale of struggle and sacrifice strikes a new path with its innovative technique and by placing refugees and their tra...
1971: Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s philosophical Anandbrings together Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan for a memorable cinematic outing. 1973: After Mera Naam Joker’s disastrous performance at the box office, a dejected Raj Kapoor teams up with K.A. Abbas to make Bobby, one of the biggest blockbusters of all time that also pioneered the genre of teenag...
1980: On the threshold of a new decade, Feroz Khan’s Qurbanibrings a certain panache to the screen that filmgoers love to bits, with the musical component being the epitome of cool. 1981: K. Balachander’s Ek Duje Ke Liye, an over-the-top North-South saga of love failure that ends in death, becomes a nationwide hit and inspires copycat versions in a...
1992:Roja, Mani Ratnam’s first expedition into hypernationalism, becomes a surprise nationwide hit, on the back of A.R. Rahman’s anthemic soundtrack. 1993:Baazigar, followed in quick succession by Darr, ushers in the Shah Rukh Khan era that would redefine mainstream Hindi cinema. 1994:Hum Aapke Hai Kaun, starring Salman Khan and Madhuri Dixit, brea...
The initial years of the new millennium were marked by the reign of the Khans and the arrival of new influential film-makers such as Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Vishal Bhardwaj, Karan Johar, and Anurag Kashyap. 2001: Aamir Khan hits paydirt with the ambitious period film Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai, which explores the friendship, falling out and eventual ...
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The 1960s and 1970s saw a significant change in Indian cinema. Filmmakers started exploring social issues and making films that were more realistic. The 1960s also saw the emergence of the Angry Young Man, a character portrayed by Amitabh Bachchan in films like Zanjeer and Deewar.
Jul 1, 2023 · From the birth of Indian cinema in the early 20th century to the golden era of the 1950s and 1960s, where timeless classics were born, and through the parallel cinema movement and artistic...
May 4, 2016 · The book explores two central themes: first, the popular cinema’s role in helping to construct the decade’s public culture; and second, the powerful and under-studied archive of the decade as present in India’s popular cinemas. This book is based on a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.
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Unsurprisingly, Hindi cinema’s Golden Age coincided with independence in India and followed the trauma of the Partition. It was a time of great change, politically and socially. By the end of...
