5 Living Indians Who Deserve A Film On Their Lives

We have previously talked about biopics, about how we do not need to look at other shores for inspiration when our history is full of people with rich and interesting lives. However, it is not just the past that offers us tales, movies on living persons have been in fact regularly made in the west, (The Social Network, Ali, W, Pirates of the Silicon Valley) but in India making a film on someone who is still alive (or in Chacha Nehru's case, someone...

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4 Movies Aamir Khan Wouldn't Want You To Watch

We all know of Aamir Khan as India's present King of TV as well as for being Mister Perfectionist, who chooses his films more selectively than our Government chooses our President. However, being human, he too has made his share of So-Bad films that we as kids in the early 90s were subject to. Looking back, even Aamir wouldn't want to watch these films again 4. Daulat Ki Jung It could easily be a Photo-Shopped poster of Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak A...

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6 movies that created maximum controversy

Films have always been a part of our life, sometimes the territory we don't want to step in. Sometimes it is a mirror that shows the blunt truth which is hard to accept, particularly when it is on the big screen we all love. Sometimes the subject of the matter creates uncomfortability, sometimes it can also pierce our sensitivity. But whatever the root cause, movies in Bollywood have often found themselves lurking on...

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6 Copied Filmy Songs That Are Better Than The Original

Pritam-ing a tune is not a new phenomenon, in fact if nothing else Pritam is just a lucky kid who has made use of Youtube and other song sites to his advantage (all he has to do to 'make a new tune' is search on youtube - Hit Korean/Malaysian/Indonesian/Sumatran/Madagascaran Song and he has the whole soundtrack for his next film ready), but the legends, the greats of our industry used to indulge in this from time to time (although not on the industrial...

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The Unreleased and The Unknown - Part 4 - Kissa Kursi Ka (1978)

'किस्सा कुर्सी का' अमृत नहाता द्वारा निर्देशित एक 'बेहतरीन' फिल्म है. फिल्म इमरजेंसी के दौरान बनाई गई थी और 1977 में भारत सरकार ने फिल्म के सारे प्रिंट्स (जितने हो सके) जला डाले थे. वजह साफ़ थी, फिल्म पहले राजनीति का कच्चा चिट्ठा खोल कर रखती है और फिर उसे  फ्रेम-दर-फ्रेम  उधेड़  कर उसकी धज्जियां उड़ाती है.  हालाँकि गुड़गाँव में मारुती फैक्ट्री में फिल्म के प्रिंट जला देने के बाद हाई...

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Bollywood On-Screen Blunders

An official declaration that this is talking about goof-ups/bloopers/mistakes in some very popular and appreciated Bollywood movies. Though I am mentioning just a very few here, there of course are hundreds of such mistakes in our movies and I am sure most of you have some of your own observations to add to this list. But nevertheless, since I am writing this, and not you, I will talk of the ones I found most interesting and unnoticed. Ok,...

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