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The melodious duets of Kishore Kumar and Lata
Light , fun loving 40 songs(MP3 Saregama ) but always highly melodious . They are mostly from the 1970s when Kishore Kumar was the lead male singer along with the […]
Mr & Mrs 55 , Aar Paar , Guru Dutt’s early films
Who said the great Guru Dutt only made serious and heavy films like Pyasa and Kaagaz Ke Phool . He also made light comedies . Mr & Mrs 55 (1955) […]
Kalka-Shimla vintage rail car to be renovated : Indian railways
Shimla : Indian railways on Thursday dismissed reports about the closing down the popular vintage rail car plying on the Shimla-Kalka narrow gauge track for the last 85 years . […]
India’s best shooter from unknown Himachal village
Shimla : There is a story about Vijay Kumar who shot silver in the London Olympics this week . Soon after he won three gold in the Delhi Commonwealth games […]
Teesri Kasam , a rare film about old rural India
I often wonder why on earth don’t they anymore make hindi films set in rural India even though two out of three Indians still live in villages . Around 700 […]
When Bombai Ka Babu came to Himachal !
This film really gets interesting only after the Bombai Ka Babu(Dev Anand )leaves Bombay and heads up north , into the hills of Himachal Pradesh by train and finally gets […]
Mamta : Suchitra Sen’s blunder !
Suchitra Sen is perhaps Bengali’s cinema’s greatest actress. Despite her rare performances in hindi cinema she left an indelible mark with Devdas , Bombai ka Babu and Aandhi . But […]
To Have and Have Not , on an island with Boghart
Loosely based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel , ‘To Have and Have Not’ is set on a tiny , remote Caribbean island . Made in 1944 it followed Humpery Boghart’s most […]
New Shimla road in a mess and nobody is bothered !
Shimla : For a change, after many years the by-pass road passing through Khalini , BCS and onwards is nice and smooth . But the moment you take the New […]
A Passage to India , the last epic by David Lean
V S Naipaul may have dismissed E M Forster for not understanding Indian culture and roaming India only in search of seducing cute garden boys . But many others consider […]