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Imperial Cinema

Arun Puranik | arun.puranik@gmail.com One still thinks of the Parsi riots that happened roughly 75 years ago while discussing Imperial Cinema. The first Bombay Talkies film, "Jawani ki Hawa", by Himanshu Roy, was released on September 16th, 1935, at Imperial. Devika Rani, the movie's main character, is a pretty young woman who doesn't want to...

10 November 2022

By Arun PuranikInsightsAshok Kumar, Balasaheb Thakrey, Bhagwan Dada, Bollywood Classics, Bombay Talkies, C Ramchandra, Devika Rani, Director, Husnalal Bhagatram, Imperial Cinema, Jeevan Nayya, music, Naushad, Prithviraj Kapoor, Rattan, Saraswati Devi, Suraiya, Suraiyya, Udan Khatola, V Shantaram2 Comments

Gajananrao – A Connoisseur of Music

by: Sudnya Patkar, (daughter of a well-known song and solo violinist Pt. Gajananrao Karnad pens a life portrait of her illustrious father). Pandit Gajanan Madhav Karnad was born in a middle-class Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin family on 28th April 1923. A distant relative visiting the Karnad family noticed the child would just not let go of...

25 March 2021

By Swar AalapFlashbackBollywood, Bollywood stories, Do Aankhen Barah Haath, Gajananrao, Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey, music industry, Musicians, Raagdari, Saiyyan Jhothon Ka Bada, Solo violin, Song violin, V Shantaram, Vasant Desai2 Comments