A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and the soul of its people – Mahatma Gandhi
August 15, 2019The National Film Archive of India shared an old picture of the veteran actor from Mehboob Khan's landmark film, Mother India(1957).
June 1, 2019Womanhood has become synonymous with struggles and social taboos or fight for identity as also existence nowadays
March 7, 2019Actress Dia Mirza, who is married to filmmaker Sahil Sangha, feels friendship is the essence of a strong relationship. The actress and philanthropist attended the pre-wedding celebrations of erstwhile Kurnool royal Adnan Ul Mulk and Nida Farooqui here on Wednesday. She hosted a ‘sufiyana’ evening here at a hotel. Dia told the media: “I am …
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June 28, 2018Dia Mirza bid for and bought an original six-sheet poster of the landmark film Mother India — depicting the iconic Nargis Dutt — for Rs 145,000 in an auction. The actress, who features in a pivotal role in Sanju, a movie on Sanjay Dutt’s life, wants to gift it to the Munna Bhai M B B …
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June 27, 2018Mehboob Khan, who produced and directed the immortal classic Mother India (1957) would perhaps have been shocked at the present situation of the peasant population in India 60 years after the film was released. Behind the glamour and the chutzpah of the packaging and a rather melodramatic storyline when read in retrospect, Mother India had …
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November 12, 2017Filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra, who grew up in Srinagar, says young actress Zaira Wasim who is from Kashmir, has done a fabulous job in Secret Superstar. He feels the audience there must watch the film to see the kind of talent the Valley has. Present at a special screening of Secret Superstar here on Tuesday, Chopra …
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October 18, 2017Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday invoked Lord Rama and Lord Krishna, apart from Mahatma Gandhi, while asserting that each Indian had a role to play in the making of a new India by 2022. “We are rich inheritors of the historical legacy (ranging) from Sudarshan-dhari Krishna to ‘charkhdhari’ Mohan (Mahatma Gandhi),” he said in …
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August 15, 2017