Posts

Showing posts with the label Suchitra Sen

Sridevi: 60th Birthday Celebration

Image
Celebrating Sridevi's 60th Birthday on August 13, 2023, Happy birthday, Sridevi! Celebrating Sridevi's 60th Birthday on August 13, 2023, Happy birthday, Sridevi! Fans of Bollywood films are jubilantly celebrating Sridevi's 60th birthday today, August 13, 2023! Sridevi enlightened the Bollywood screens with her exceptional performances during the course of a remarkable career that lasted over four decades and included roles in around three hundred films. Even in a field dominated by men, she frequently stood out, bringing glitz to both serious and lighthearted productions. Sridevi, who was born on this day in 1963 in what is now Tamil Nadu, India, has always had a love of films. At the infant age of four, she made her acting debut in the Tamil movie "Kandhan Karunai." She impressively mastered a number of South Indian languages, which cleared the path for her to establish herself in several regional Indian film industries. In the beginning of her career, she made a...

Review of old Indian Hindi movie Musafir(1957)

Image
Review of old Indian Hindi movie Hrishikesh Mukerjhee's brilliant debut film Musafir(1957) The end of an era has come with the departure of seasoned Editor and Director Hrishikesh Mukerjhee. Members of any generation would find it challenging to miss his flicks. Through his brilliant films, he was a superb storyteller who moved the audience to tears.  Films by Hrishikesh Mukherjee have consistently focused on the middle class. Numerous pages ki have been published about his well-known works, but I decided to focus this assessment on Musafir, his critically lauded but financially unsuccessful and practically forgotten first picture. The three most significant life events are often seen as being birth, marriage, and death. Hrishikesh Mukherjee took this idea a step farther and turned it into a movie.  By producing it as a three-episode series, Hrishikesh Mukherjee made the movie exceedingly experimental.  I feel very lucky because, recently I got a chance to wa...