Category: Bollywood
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Guru Dutt didn’t kill himself over aunty Waheeda Rehman, says Kalpana Lajmi
By Subhash K Jha MUMBAI: Filmmaker Kalpana Lajmi, who is the late Guru Dutt’s niece, is not the least perturbed by the prospect of Bhavna Talwar’s bio-pic on Guru Dutt. “Why should I threaten to go legal if Bhavna Talwar makes a bio-pic on my uncle? I don’t know how or where these reports originated.…
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Most romantic Bollywood rain songs of all time
By Subhash K Jha MUMBAI: With the monsoon around the corner, here are my favourite rain songs: Javed Akhtar: Rimjhim ke taraane leke aayee barsaat: Rafi-Geeta Dutt(Kala Bazar), O sajna barkha bahaar aayee: Lata (Parakh), Garjat barsat saawan aayo re: Suman Kalyanpur-Kamal Barot(Barsaat Ki Raat), Dum dum diga: Mukesh(Chalia), Rimjhim rimjhim runjhun runjhun: Kavita Krishnamurthy-Kumar…
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Preity Zinta was never interested in Kamal Amrohi’s property
By Subhash K Jha MUMBAI: The legendary filmmaker Kamal Amrohi’s property is embroiled in an ugly legal dispute involving his two sons the late Shandar Amrohi and the younger son Tajdar , and believe it or not, Preity Zinta whom Shandar had “adopted” as a daughter. But in a startling turn of events, Tajdar –…
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Neena Gupta returns to films with `Issaq’
News East West MUMBAI: Neena Gupta is set to get back into Bollywood action after a long time in Manish Tiwary’s upcoming film Issaq. The film has Prateik Babbar and Amyra Dastur in the lead roles as Romeo and Juliet. Neena is a mother figure to Amyra, playing the role of a nurse called Amma.…