Achala Sachdev : The ” Zohara Jabeen ” of ” Waqt ” Fades Away

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           May 07 , 2012           00.55         A.M. I was busy writing my pending travel diaries of Madhya Pradesh visit , when the news came of the death of Achala Sachdev . She died in Pune on April 30 , 2012 at the age of 91 [...]

Joy Mukherjee : Some Sepia – Toned Memories

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           APRIL 16 , 2012           01.15 A.M. Joy Mukherjee , a popular actor of yesteryear , mainly 60s , died on March 09 , 2012 in a Mumbai hospital at the age of 73 . Let me admit in the beginning that I was never a fan of Joy Mukherjee . [...]

Jasmine Revolution in Burma [ Myanmar ]

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           JANUARY 21, 2012           01.00 A.M. 2011 will be known in the world history as the year of Jasmine Revolutions . It started with Tunisia .The despotic ruler of Tunisia , Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to quit his post after 24 years of tyrannical rule . Egypt was [...]

60 Years of Screen : A News Paper of Indian Cinema

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           January  01 , 2012           01.20 A.M. ” Screen “ weekly completed 60 years in 2011 . I share my birth year with this film weekly . In fact ” Screen “ is few months senior . Hindi film industry fascinates [...]

100 Years of Ashok Kumar : First Super – Star of Hindi Films

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           DECEMBER 10 , 2011           03.00 P.M. It is centenary year of Ashok Kumar , the first real Super – Star of Hindi cinema . He made his debut in 1936 , just after 5 years of the release of ‘ Alam Ara ” [ 1931 ] , the first talkie [...]

Incredible DEV ANAND SAHAB : The Immortal Mortal

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA            DECEMBER 07 , 2011           10.30 P.M. On December 04 , 2011 , I woke up as usual in the morning imagining a lazy Sunday and as per my habit picked up my BlackBerry to check BBM messages . I opened the page and got a [...]

My Column ” Kal Aur Aaj ” in Bhojpuri City – [ 6 ]

  MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA            SEPTEMBER 10, 2011                 11 . 55 P. M. This is the 6th article of my Hindi column ” Kal Aur Aaj ” . It comes in Bhojpuri City , a fortnightly Bhojpuri film trade magazine published from Mumbai . Though I [...]

My Column ” Kal Aur Aaj ” in Bhojpuri City – [ 5 ]

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA                  MAY 05 , 2011                      11.45 P.M. That I write a fortnightly Hindi column is now known to all my readers. It is being published in a magazine called ” Bhojpuri City “. [...]

Vidur’s Film Diary – December 2010

It’s the 1st week of 2011. And this is the 20th edition of my Monthly Film Diary, one year and eight months precisely. I never imagined that I would be here writing my monthly Film Diaries for so long. That I could be posting my film diaries so regularly and so consistently. I started blogging  [...]

Adieu Nalini Jaywant !

Yesteryear actor Nalini Jaywant died on December 21, 2010 at her Chembur bungalow at the age of 84. Her body was found 3 days later by BMC people. They wrapped her in a bed-sheet and it was taken away for cremation. She became recluse after the death of her second husband, actor Prabhu Dayal, with [...]