Immortality at Madame Tussauds

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA         NOVEMBER 03 , 2011           10.40 P.M Last week as I was scrolling through my Twitter timeline , www.twitter.com/VidurChaturvedi    ,I got the news that Kareena Kapoor‘s wax statue was unveiled at Madame Tussauds Wax Studio , Blackpool . Before Kareena Kapoor ,  Hritik Roshan‘s wax statue [...]

Vidur’s Film Diary – October 2011

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           NOVEMBER 01 , 2011            00.25A.M. This is the 30th edition of my film diary . Films released in the beginning of this month failed to create any magic at the Box Office . Though ” Force “ collected some decent [...]

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 – April 2011

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA                   MAY 01 , 2011                       00.45 A.M. This particular edition is the 24th edition of  “  Vidur’s Film Diaries “ . Two long years , two momentous years and these uninterrupted  notes of the diary about my students and their work in Indian films , TV serials and Theatre productions. A [...]

Vidur’s Film Diary – March 2011

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           APRIL 01 , 2011                   12 . 3O A.M. After successful January 2011 , February was quite dull for the industry .  And March was simply disastrous . First quarter is gone without any great success. No big releases because of the World [...]

80 Years of ” Alam Ara ” : India’s First Talkie

NIGHT……………………………….11.00 On March 14 , 1931 Indian cinema created history . First Hindi talkie ” ALAM ARA “ made by Ardeshir Irani was released on this very day in the Majestic cinema of Bombay [ now Mumbai ] Though , ” RAJA HARISCHANDRA ” , first ever full – length silent feature film of India [...]

Vidur’s Film Diary – February 2011

NIGHT………………………………..12.15 After successful January , it is a dull month again. All the first week releases of February tanked badly. Month end release , though, did cheer up the mood of the industry. To emphasise my point of view and to show the latest trends in the industry, I am reproducing  few relevant tweets of [...]

A 15 Year-Long Funeral

NIGHT………………………………1.15 A.M.   It is February 25 , 2011 today. 15 years back on this very date [ February 25 , 1996 ], my elder son Nitin Chaturvedi died. He was going to his college at Malad from Nalla Sopara, where we were living at that time. Some where in between Vasai and Borivli , [...]

Egypt : The Harbinger of Change in Arab World

EVENING…………………………………………….7.55 P.M. I hate the word Current Affaires. What is happening in this world is not just current affaires. It is definitely something very serious. Whatever has happened is history . So whatever is happening today, is history-in-the-making. That is the reason, I have named this category : History-In-Making and not current affairs. I was [...]

Sunset Boulevard ( 6 ) : I Lost My Chavanni

When I wrote Sunset Boulevard for the first time about my Bajaj Scooter, I thought that in my life I wont be writing something like this ever again. I assumed that all the familiar things of my life, all the cherished asinine objects of my childhood will be with me till I breathe my last. But [...]