Written, directed and produced by Kamal Amrohi, the film featured legendary actors like Ashok Kumar and Madhubala in lead ...

Raj Kapoor told director Kidar Sharma not to sign him as an actor, as he was sure that his lack of talent would ruin the movie. Once he agreed, however, he wanted to know who the heroine would be.

Even before he grew up to become Indian cinema’s iconic showman Raj Kapoor, the adolescence of Raj was one of rebellion and restlessness. Raj, as an inquisitive and reckless teenager, troubled his ...

Ashok Kumar’s sister, Sati Devi’s husband Sashadhar Mukherjee, helped him secure the job of a Lab assistant at Bombay Talkies ...

Bollywood is currently churning out great box office numbers with horror genre but do you know the first horror hit of Bollywood?

On the surface, PL Santoshi’s 1960 film Barsaat Ki Raat looks like just another love story shadowed by social disapproval. What sets it apart, however, is how Urdu poetry and qawwalis are not just ...

Film director Kidar Sharma, who launched the careers of everyone from Raj Kapoor to Madhubala, once recalled a story about Geeta Bali having falling on hard times, and being forced to work for peanuts ...

Over the past 24 hours, Saudi Arabia and United Kingdom have announced their respective entries of Hijra and My Father’s Shadow, while Uganda also revealed last week that it had submitted Kimote.

Over the next two years, Bollywood producers are set to release a wave of biopics on film legends such as Dadasaheb Phalke, Meena Kumari, Kishore Kumar, Parveen Babi, Madhubala and Ilaiyaraaja, as the ...

The 1989 blockbuster Chandni launched iconic careers and delivered unforgettable music, yet tragedy struck as three of its leading stars passed away within just four years.

At the 71st National Film Awards, legendary Malayalam actor Mohanlal fondly known as Lalettan was conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India’s highest recognition in cinema. The award, for the year ...

Bollywood veteran Parikshit Sahni fondly recalls working with legends Dev Anand in 'Awwal Number' and assisting Raj Kapoor in ...