Vidur’s Film Diary – February 2012

 -MUMBAI MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           MARCH 03 , 2012           08.00 P.M. This is 34th film diary . 2 more to go and it will complete 3 momentous years . As usual I am re-posting some relevant tweets of the eminent trade analysts Mr. Komal Nahta and Mr. Taran Adarsh : 23h Komal Nahta @KomalNaht GALI GALI [...]

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 [...]

Jagjit Singh Ji ! Chitthi Na Koi Sandesh , Kahan Tum Chale Gaye ?

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA             DECEBER 31 , 2011                   7.00 P.M. On October 09th , when I came to my institute and started going through all the twitter postings , I found a tweet , to my shock and dismay, [...]

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 [...]

Pt. Bhimsen Joshi : Death of A Person , End of An Era

  On Monday,  January 24, 2011, when I was reaching Lokmanya Tilak Terminus , Mumbai to catch my train to Varanasi , on the way I read about Pt. Bhimsen Joshi’s sad demise  on somebody’s twitter handle. I was shocked.   I am fortunate , lucky and blessed that I have attended one of his [...]

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 [...]

Meeting Mr. Dev Anand

  Last week on December 17, 2010 I celebrated my 58th birthday. I wont be able to forget this year ever in my life. Before my birthday I was able to go to Lata Mangeshkar’s house on 7th December 2010 and finally, I was fortunate enough that I could talk to her on December 14, [...]

Vidur’s Film Diary – November 2010

  In November, Box Office mayhem of October is still continuing. ” Golmaal – 3″ opens to bumper houses but ” Action Replayy “ ? It fails miserably. Is it not surprizing that from last Diwali to this Diwali, only 5 films clicked in a big way ? They are : ” 3 Idiots “  [...]