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Punjabi Cinema
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Punjabi
Cinema
Punjabis
are the backbone of Indian & Pakistani Film Industry & Major
Television Content.
Who does not know the names of famous Indian and Pakistani Film
personalities in virtually all fields from Producing and making to acting
and distributing.
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Punjabi
films on the precipice |
The
three Vs of Punjabi cinema - vengeance, violence and vulgarity
They all start with a cause and the cause is invariably good. In Sher-e-Lahore
released last December, it was a daughter's honour. In a subsequent
release Goonda Tax, it was an unfair tax imposed by wicked hoodlums
on hapless shopkeepers. In Dada Badmash currently showing to packed
houses, it is a generations old property dispute.
Pakistan
Film Awards 2000
Landmarks
in Pakistani Cinema
Punjabi
Films
Mahaul ab theek hai
When the multicrore extravaganzas dished out by
Bollywood are flopping left, right and centre, and even the much- hyped
Hey Ram belied expectations, Shaheed Udham Singh, a film
produced by Iqbal Singh Dhillon, successfully made its point. Though it
was a Punjabi film, its Hindustani version received the Screen Videocon
special jury award, besides striking a chord in the hearts and minds of
Punjabi-speaking cine buffs.
Punjabi films can
sell if handled professionally"
Iqbal Singh Dhillon, the well-known film-maker who
enjoys the enviable distinction of delivering the maximum number of
Punjabi hits, is currently sitting pretty. His latest offering Shaheed
Udham Singh is creating waves. Excerpts from an interview:
 "Regional sentiment
is running high"
Mention the name
and a smile begins to pay around one’s lips. Be it as a maker, actor or
activist, Bhatti hits out in a language he knows best. A master crafter,
Jaspal Bhatti has enough reasons today to smile about. Excerpts from an
interview:
Gurdas
Mann - From Bhangra to Bollywood
Guess who is making a debut
in Bollywood? Gurdas Mann. The Bhangra king, who for years has
entertained Punjabi listeners with his mellifluous songs as well
as his robust bhangra numbers. The Punjabi film
Shaheed-e-Mohabbat Bhoota Singh produced by him did quite well.
Story of Heer Ranjha
Heer
was an extremely beautiful woman born in a wealthy family "Sayyal". Ranjha
(Teedo) was the youngest of four brothers, after a confrontation with his
brothers, Ranjha left home and travels around and comes to Heerīs village,
where he found his love, Heer, who offered him a job to take care of there
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Hundred
Years
of
Cinema
in
India
When the Lumiere Brothers' first films were shown at Bombay's
Watson's Hotel in 1895 or when Dadasaheb Phalke released his epochal
feature film Raja Harischandra in 1913, it is unlikely that either the
exhibitors or the pioneer film maker realised they were unleashing a
mass entertainment medium that would hold millions in sway for the
next hundred years; that they were spawning an industry that in years
to come would overtake the rest of the world in film production!
Cinema....
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K.L.
Saigal:
The Musical Genius
Recognized as the greatest singer of the century, K.L.
Saigal was a musical genius who became a legend in his life
time. He brought music to the masses and with his God-gifted
voice and unique style gave a totally new dimension to the music
of his time. |
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Remembering
Balraj Sahni
Balraj Sahni had a handsome, radiant face and transparent
personality and the warm, carefree abandon with which he mixed
with others endeared him to all. He had a very sensitive,
literary bent of mind. He wrote poems in English and was also
fond of writing stories. |
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Dara
Singh
Dara Singh was a
well-known wrestler before he joined Hindi films. He was known
as 'Rustom-E-Hind' which also became one of his movies later on.
But with his first film 'King Kong' in 1962, Dara Singh shot to
fame and had a strong screen presence. He became one of the most
sought after wrestlers of Bollywood in the years to come.
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Shaheed-e-Mohabbat
You'd think it's a rather large gulf to bridge, from bhangra pop
to a film on blighted love. But on reflection, it shouldn't spark
comment. Both rely on emotional responses, both celebrate romance in
one way or the other. |
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The firsts in Indian
cinema
The roots of Indian cinema
are almost as old as those of the medium itself. Within eight months
of taking Paris by storm, the touring agents of Lumiere brothers' Cinematographer landed on the shores of India. On July 7, 1896,
The Times of India carried an advertisement heralding the
arrival of "the marvel of the century" and "wonder of the world".
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Indian
music
Music has always occupied a central place in the
imagination of Indians. The range of musical phenomenon in India, and
indeed the rest of South Asia, extends from simple melodies, commonly
encountered among hill tribes, to what is one of the most well- developed
"systems" of classical music in the world. |
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New Indian
Cinema
Though "New Indian Cinema" is not a precise nor a particularly
illuminating term, it points to trajectories in Indian cinema that are
identified with the emergence of a certain aesthetic sensibility, a
political awareness and engagement with Indian political realities, and a
new style of film-making. |
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