CinemaScope
News, stories, reviews, feature articles on movies and films from Bollywood (Hindi film industry), Tollywood (Bengali cinema) and Hollywood.
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When Rajesh Khanna could not dare to give third take before Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Kolkata: Hrishikesh Mukherjee was shooting the climax of Namak Haram. After two takes Rajesh Khanna requested the director for a…
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Remembering Satyajit Ray on his birth centenary
A war of letters in Kolkata’s leading daily The Statesman was published in 1965. Satyajit Ray criticized Mrinal Sen’s movie…
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Raj Kapoor to Dev Anand: “Dev Tumne Mere Heroine (Nargis) Ko Chura Liya”
In 1953 the first Indian film delegation attended the coveted Venice International Film Festival. Led by Bimal Ray the delegation…
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Remembering Sahir Ludhianvi: A Lyrical Centenary
Sahir Ludhianvi was having a session with S.D.Burman and Chetan Anand for Funtoosh. Chetan Anand wanted a satirical song for a…
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Rafi Saab’s singing was divine – Suman Kalyanpur
I was humming, Tere Hum O Sanam to myself. Memories of this lilting hit of mine with Mohammad Rafi Saab…
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Legendary actor Soumitra Chatterjee breathes his last at the age of 85
Kolkata: In the late 80s came a Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay novel ‘Nana Ronger Aalo’. Still a school student with a deep…
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How soccer’s loss became Hollywood’s gain
For over a month, the 1965 film The Hill was on my watchlist. I kept pushing back, for a variety…
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I wonder where the crowd that had camped at Jantar Mantar for days in 2012 against the rapists has disappeared today-Anubhav Sinha
Who would know the road to evolution better than filmmaker Anubhav Sinha? A mechanical engineer from Aligarh Muslim University, Anubhav,…
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Saransh: Daddy’s comeback has no Arth
Before watching Sadak 2, I watched Sadak once more to renew the memory. It was of course a hit back…
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Bombay gets a classy presentation
Everyone in their childhood read about the hare and the tortoise, and the story was taught with a lesson that…
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