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The film introduces us to Shrirenu Tripathi, a 42-year-old Sanskrit professor residing in the industrial city of Jamshedpur. His life is a quiet study in loneliness; a socially awkward man steeped in traditional values, he is a source of gentle mockery for his students and a subject of concern for his family, who are keen to see him married.

Shrirenu embodies a brand of Indian masculinity rooted in conservative ideals and a pronounced lack of confidence in the presence of women. His world is constructed from ancient texts and provincial expectations, leaving him ill-equipped for the complexities of contemporary romance.

His proposed counterpart is Madhu Bose, a younger, vivacious French teacher from the culturally rich city of Kolkata. She is presented as his complete opposite: modern, assertive, and a product of a liberal, artistic Bengali family. Their story begins through the very traditional channel of an arranged match, immediately establishing a dynamic of opposites.

Kishore Kumar Was Given Only One Line In This Mohd Rafi Blockbuster Song ( Photo Credit – Facebook; Wikimedia )

Kishore Kumar is one of the most legendary singers who pushed Indian Cinema to new heights. The late singer-actor was one of the most celebrated in Hindi films. Be it funny appearances as the lead actor in films like Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi and Dilli Ka Thugs or brilliantly sung songs like Ek Chatur Naar.

Ashok Kumar’s younger brother, Kishore, always wanted to be a singer despite his elder brother wanting him to be an actor. However, he nailed both art forms. At one point, he became the most established singer in the industry and the only rival to Mohd Rafi.

Kishore Kumar was shot to fame in the industry, and people started debating about Goat. Suddenly, an unsaid line was drawn between him and Mohd Rafi. However, the Roop Tera Mastana...

A biopic on the life and legacy of late veteran star Madhubala, famously called ‘the living Taj Mahal’ and ‘India’s Marilyn Monroe’, has been announced by Sony Pictures International Productions, India.

The studio has signed Jasmeet K. Reen, who made her debut feature film ‘Darlings’ starring Alia Bhatt.

The studio is developing the cinematic journey and the challenges she confronted as a woman navigating the complexities of the entertainment industry during her era.

The film is produced by Sony Pictures International Productions and Brewing Thoughts Pvt. Ltd. (Prashant Singh and Madhurya Vinay), with whom the studio has already started working on India’s biggest superhero trilogy, ‘Shaktimaan’.

Madhubala’s sister Madhur Brij Bhushan and Arvind Kumar Malviya (Madhubala Ventures) are co-producers on the film.

However, details about who will play the titular role are still under wraps.

One of the highest-paid and greatest actresses in the history of Indian cinema,...

Her incandescent beauty, innocent sensuality, and effervescent persona still send hearts aflutter and earned her the sobriquet of “Venus of Indian films”, but Madhubala’s enigmatic and beguiling smile and charm masked a lifetime of pain and suffering.

Madhubala, who passed away on this day (February 23) in 1969, earned tributes that have rarely been matched, leave alone surpassed.

She acted in a film named after her when she was not even midway through her career, was being copied or parodied when she was still acting, and is possibly the only Indian, film or otherwise, with a song dedicated to her being played at the Olympics.

She was also compared to the near-contemporary Marilyn Monroe – the two would pass away within a few years of each other, both aged 36, but did not welcome this as she did not consider herself a sex symbol.

Performances as the captivating but star-crossed Anarkali of “Mughal-e-Azam...

Jasmeet K Reen, who made her directorial debut with the dark comedy Darlings starring Alia Bhatt, Shefali Shah and Vijay Varma, is all set to helm another ambitious project. The filmmaker has been roped in to write and direct the biopic of the legendary actress Madhubala, who is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential figures of Indian cinema.

The biopic, which is currently in the scripting stage, is being produced by Madhubala’s younger sister Madhur Brij Bhushan along with Brewing Thoughts Private Limited. The film will cover various aspects of Madhubala’s life, from her childhood and early career to her rise to stardom and her tragic demise at the age of 36 due to a congenital heart defect.

According to a report by Pinkvilla, the makers want to have a script that does justice to the events of her life and Jasmeet was brought on board...

Intrinsically talented, both, separately and jointly, gave a new direction to Hindi film music. But to achieve this, Asha Bhosle and Rahul Dev Burman had to surmount a major “hurdle” – creating a new identity distinct from their illustrious and established kin: elder sibling Lata Mangeshkar and father Sachin Dev Burman.

And both succeeded – with a combination of luck, support, their own undeniable virtuosity, and above all, their first joint effort.

AshaBhosle – who is still going strong at 90, having worked with four generations of music composers from O P Nayyar to A R Rehman – added a sensuous allure and element of forthrightness for the Hindi film heroine, without becoming risque or boisterous, even as Burman adroitly used pop and jazz to good effect in electrifying film music – bringing the age of Elvis Presley and the Beatles to India.

Rejected at a trial for a film in 1947 as the sound recording engineer...

Romantics are gushing through the ears and the trigger is Dharmendra crooning – अभी न जाओ छोड़कर – to Shabana Azmi which culminates in an impromptu kiss in ‘Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani’. The original song from Dev Anand’s Hum Dono still is a swan song for the lovers especially when the lady in question is planning to leave, while the boy has the innate desire that she stays, and this yearn is not relegated to teenagers. It continues to reverberate through the ages ‘Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani’ has amplified it.

I am reminded of a party that we were attending in Ranchi. It was around midnight and as the guests started walking away, I snatched the mike and started singing this evergreen song and those who had taken their cars out of the parking lots dumped it, came back and we kept on singing...

She had a film named after her even before she hit her career’s peak, was being parodied when she was still active, and is the only Indian film actress who has a song to her played at the Olympics. That was the spell of Madhubala, whose angelic features, beguiling yet enigmatic smile, and incandescent beauty, coupled with her restrained but undeniable talent, made her part of some of Hindi cinema’s most iconic films.

While she is imprinted in the hearts and minds of film-watchers as the winsome, entrancing but star-crossed Anarkali of “Mughal-e-Azam” (1960), as the entrancing nightclub singer in “Howrah Bridge”, and for her exuberant, effusive, and elfin charm in romantic comedies “Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi” (1958), “Jhumroo” (1961) and “Half Ticket” (1962), she left her mark across film genres from ghost/gothic stories to comic crime capers to film noir, beyond the usual romantic dramas in a relatively short career.

Mumbai, Feb 26: Bollywood filmmakers never miss a chance to sensationalize, to grab a few extra eyeballs. This year, makers seem to have hit the idea of quirky titles. Liger to Looop Lapeta, Pagglait to Bell Bottom, and Gangubai Kathiawadi to Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi, names of films really take an unusual turn this year.

Quirky titles bordering on being tongue-twisters, of course are not new to Bollywood. In the past, the industry made Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, Badhti Ka Naam Dadhi, Jal Bin Machhli Nritya Bin Bijli, Allah Meherban Toh Gadha Pahelwan and Dhoti Lota Aur Chowpatty.

Here are some recent titles that render the films in question a dash of added audience interest.

Liger

Imagine a cross breed between a Lion and Tiger! That's Vijay Deverakonda for you - at least in spirit, going by the title of his next film. The poster and title created a frenzy on social media upon launch.

Now that the three superstars of Bollywood Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan have shown their unification in public, many aspiring filmmakers must be mulling over the idea of bringing the powerful trio in one frame! In fact, a couple of days back rumours were rife that Sajid Nadiadwala is considering of casting them together in his film. While the filmmakers are still figuring out how to rope in the threesome, we have come up with a list of Bollywood films, whose remake/sequel can have Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan together. Take a look:

Yaadon Ki Baarat:Shah Rukh, Salman and Aamir can well play three estranged brothers, who reunite later on, in the remake of this memorable film.

Amar Akbar Anthony: Srk, Salman and Aamir can also come together and step in the shoes of Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan...

I’ll preface this review with an admission: I played the clarinet in the school band for about two years, so you can understand why I fell so hard for the Bombay Velvet soundtrack as a band nerd. Anurag Kashyap’s magnum opus takes the audience to 1960s Bombay, which is emerging as a metropolis that’s teeming with gangsters, film journalists, femme fatales, and underdogs. Kashyap recruited Amit Trivedi for this fantastic album, that’s as nuanced as it is danceable. Trivedi teamed up with The City of Prague Big Band, and Mickey McCleary for the album that merges jazz standards, classic Bollywood, and swing with such seamless ease.

The album starts off with the rollicking, Aam Hindustani, a 9-minute gem that hooks you in with a terrific prelude. From the opening clarinets that segue into the madcap horns and trumpets, Trivedi goes for the carnival-esque sound that would...

After the blockbuster Chennai Express, it's an unofficial remake of Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi for superstar Shah Rukh Khan and superstar-director Rohit Shetty. The film, which goes on the floors in March, will star Shah Rukh Khan and Varun Dhawan as brothers. A source in the know reveals, "The basic plot is like Satyen Bose's Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi and also shades of Mukul Anand's Hum. Shah Rukh's role is a mix of Ashok Kumar in Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi and Bachchan Saab in Hum. Shah Rukh Khan plays the Ashok Kumar role of a seeming misogynist while Varun Dhawan playing the flirty sibling is just the opposite. Like Kishore Kumar in Chalti Ka Gaadi, Varun Dhawan has a love interest, Kriti Sanon (who steps into, ahem, Madhubala's role). Varun keeps teasing and challenging his brother about his lack of interest in women...until at mid-point...

The story of India’s first unmanned plane is told in the new period drama Hawaizaada which releases on January 30. Ayushmann Khurrana headlines this moving new motion picture event which is set in Colonial India, 1895. Also starring in the film is Mithun Chakraborthy and actress Pallavi Sharda.

Pallavi plays Sitara, a Tamasha dancer and the love of Ayushmann’s Shivkar Bapuji Talpade but the course of their love does not run smooth.

The actress talks dancing, working with director Vibhu Puri, Ayushmann and more in this cool Q and A! Check it out!

Tell us something about your role in Hawaizaada.

Hawaizaada is mostly based on Ayushmann and Mithun-da’s story, my love story. I play a ‘Tamasha’ dancer in the movie. I think my character has come up very well. All thanks to our director Vibhu Puri & my co star Ayushmann Khurrana who encouraged me to give my best to the film.

Mumbai, Aug 13: Actress Sonakshi Sinha is open to do biopics and says she would like to do a film on legendary actress Madhubala, who died at the age of 36 after reigning the silver screen with hits like "Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi" and "Mughal-e-Azam".

"I would like to do a biopic. I think, biopics are quite interesting. I would like to do a biopic on Madhubala. She was very beautiful, had an interesting career, interesting life, but sadly, she died very soon," Sonakshi told Ians.

Sonakshi, who started with "Dabangg" and featured in hits like "Rowdy Rathore" and "Lootera", is now busy promoting "Once upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara",.

One of the most visible indicators of upward social mobility has been the car in front of the gate of an individual and off and on Hindi cinema has used it as a metaphor to underline the differences, aspirations, hopes and tribulations of the individuals in our society. Among the films in the past which used car as the central theme was Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi.The latest edition in this category is Ferrari Ki Sawari which is the offering from Vidhu Vinod Chopra after stupendously...

Katrina Kaif will play Madhubala opposite Ranbir Kapoor's Kishore Kumar in Anurag Basu's biopic on the late singer. Katrina is very serious for the perfection and has already started watching Madhubala's films, such as Mughal e Azam, Chalti Ka Naam Gadi and Mahal in order to prepare for the role. The makers of the film will recreate the song Ek Ladki Bheegi Bhaagi Si between Kishore and Madhubala in Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi. Earlier Katrina had signed Anurag's film Silence opposite Ranbir Kapoor. Though, when she learnt that Priyanka Chopra would be playing a pivotal role in the film, she opted out. That has apparently not ca...

Actress Katrina Kaif is surely liberating herself to bigger platforms now. The Bollywood beauty is set to play one of the most beautiful actress B-town has ever seen — Madhubala. Kat will reprise the legendary actress’ role in a biopic in Kishore Kumar to be directed by Anurag Basu. Reportedly, the film will also recreate a famous song sequence from Kishore Kumar-Madhubala starrer Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi. ...

After playing a quasi-biographical character in Raajneeti, Katrina Kaif is set to play a real-life character - Madhubala. Katrina will reprise the legendary actress. role in the Kishore Kumar biopic to be directed by Anurag Basu.Katrina was finalised for the project after she opted out of Basu.s other film, Silence, in which she was to co-star with Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor.A source says, .Katrina couldn.t do two back-to-back projects with Anurag Basu and Ranbir Kapoor. So she picked the biopic on Kishore Kumar in which she will play Madhubala..While she was considering her option back then, Katrina had said, .If I do another film with Ranbir, I.d want it to be a full-fledged commercial love story.. And it can.t get any more mainstream and romantic than the Kishore Kumar-Madhubala saga.In fact, the actress has already begun doing her homework...