Blog 2019

                                                                 PARVEEN BABI - IN MEMORIAM Enchanting and delightful Parveen Babi exuded an aura of beauty, elegance and glamour. A slender, graceful, bright, spirited, gentle and kind hearted, with myriad work in Indian cinema, successful and impressionable, an indelible portrait of 70’s era, Parveen Babi still resonates in our memory. Today on her 15 th anniversary in Heaven, we remember a good soul…                                                                                                And all my life I lay upon ...

FEMALE POWER AND IDENTITY- INDIAN CINEMA Gender discrimination has been an important and crucial topic in contemporary society and it has also impacted film artists in India, definitely an unfortunate imbalance, identifies them according to their gender power and popularity, distinguishes the common acclamation of the story line focused on them. We contemplate, how the present female actors, movie makers and technicians with talent have risen to supremacy in Indian film Industry, provide immediate changes in old psyche of partisanship in Indian cinema. We undoubtedly perceive rational changes in its outlook and contributions by Indian female stars   as they furnish ample opportunities for themselves in lead roles with profound influence, though other unreasonable hindrance to their progression, an age factor has existed thorough out and some of the gifted actresses are deprived of prime roles due to absurd age issue, not necessary in good civil society. In Hollywood, f...

PARVEEN BABI – RAPACIOUS EXPLOITATION BY MAHESH BHATT A fake friend, deviously misleads talented, beautiful and glamourous Parveen Babi, a famous star, educated, simple yet highly independent woman but could not understand the pettiness of Mahesh Bhatt. For his personal and professional gain, Mahesh Bhatt exploited Parveen Babi blatantly in the past and continues to do so, a ‘curator’ of her memories and life, his neurotic obsession in portraying her ‘story’ every few years, delving time and again only on one sad aspect of her life. Bhatt cannot visualise the rise of a middle-class girl to become the topmost heroine of her time, a girl with no interest in films in the beginning, yet with her talent and dedication became an accomplished artist, an effortless performer of comedy and drama.  Mahesh Bhatt, an unsuccessful director befriended a ‘STAR’ with sole intent to become famous and successful, the germs of deception and scheming duplicity, took advantage of a vuln...

LEGENDARY ROMANTIC ACTORS: INDIAN CINEMA Romance has been paramount and predominant segment of Indian cinema since its inception, expressed in different dreamy imageries, illustrations of pleasure /pain, emotional presentation with nostalgic sensitivity, curious mystifying complexity and subjective psyche. The amazing virtuosity of actors and film makers, their commendable visualization and portrayal of romance has influenced the society through the ages, at times bringing about significant behavioral and social changes. Classical romantic movies have brought artistic facility, drama, poetry, music and inflection of soul in Indian cinema.  In contemporary cinema,   some of charismatic Indian film stars such as Rajesh Khanna, Rekha, Shahrukh Khan with their emotive, empathetic and beautiful performances intensified   romance on screen and epitomized their famous predecessors Dilip Kumar, Madhubala, Nargis and Raj Kapoor with their original style, these Bol...

COMEDIC TRENDS IN INDIAN FILM INDUSTRY Many actors in Indian film Industry are hesitant to take up comedy, arguably ‘tricky’ artform, for their steady progress, at times they intentionally bring out same factitious gestures and banal comic performance. Yet, the strength of first-rate comedy is to maintain perfect timing, exciting and remarkable thrill, genuinely to keep the curiosity of inquisitive audience. Certainly, a good actor presents spontaneous and unscripted framework of comedy, the actual power of a performer tremendously depends on competence and craft for comedic roles. The instantaneous comedy has modified the path of some actors favourably, with effortless craftsmanship and on the spot imaginative improvisation, they repertoire their inherent skills with brilliance. Undoubtedly, comedy is keystone aspect of an actor’s creativity in overall performance, an essential part of cinema entertainment with its credible influence on masses. There are actors who empower s...

SANIA MIRZA – AN INDOMITABLE LIFE The immense popularity of brilliant Tennis ace Sania Mirza, an exceptional persona that lives to its name with striking personality and simple memorable feminine nose ring accelerated in mid 2000's with the ultimate talent and genius on tennis courts, her outstanding performances and achievements portrayed Sania as an inspiration for youth as she emerged as a National sports Icon. Her success quickly galvanized the girls in that period into different games as traditionally, they were confined to certain sports like athletics, hockey etc, however very few attained fame, as earlier lawn tennis in India was restricted to few men, thereafter propelling women in badminton, boxing, wrestling, shooting etc. The meteoric rise in the International women’s ranking (both in singles and doubles), the first for an Indian, eclipsed some of the Indian male tennis stars of the time, confident Sania aggressive and tough, with excellent reflexes, remark...