Nostalgia......yesteryear Actresses |
Nostalgia......yesteryear Actresses |
Reeth |
Mar 28 2007, 03:07 PM
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Saluting the beautiful and talented leading ladies of yesteryears ....
DEVIKA RANI She is considered to be the 'First Lady' of the Indian cinema.Grand niece of Rabindranath Tagore she was truly a great beauty..........discovered by Himanshu Rai, who she later married . They together set up the Famous" Bombay Talkies Studio " beginning with a murder mystery 'Jawani ki hawa' in which Devika Rani played the lead.........thus began a successful film career... Some of her most memorable films were Karma Jawani ki hawa Achoot kanya( with Ashok kumar considered to be a classic and a landmark in the history of Indian cinema) Izzat Jeevan naiyya Durga Savitri Anjaan Hamari Baat Himanshu Rai died in 1940,after which she took control of Bomabay Talkies and kept the banner flying high with hits such as Kangan, Bandhan Jhoola, Kismet, Punarmilan... In 1945 she quit films to marry the noted Russian painter Dr Svetoslav Roerich and retired to a life of domesticity, in their sprwaling estate 'thatguni' in Bangalore, where she lived till her death in 1994,but maintained her link with the film industry... She was honoured with the " Padmashri" in 1958, and she became the first film personality to be awarded he Dada Sahab Palkhe Award in 1969. Devika rani photographed a few years before her death.... Attached image(s) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind -William James |
Reeth |
Apr 19 2007, 06:14 PM
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So far I have been able to see Mirza Ghalib with Bharat Bushan. She was very impressive as was Bharat Bushan as Ghalib. Great songs by Suraiya, talat, and Rafi saab. I have seen a few songs from Mirza Ghalib ......Anmol ghadi is the only film i have seen and to be frank i found her much more charming than Noor Jehan. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind -William James |
nasir |
Apr 22 2007, 09:02 PM
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So far I have been able to see Mirza Ghalib with Bharat Bushan. She was very impressive as was Bharat Bushan as Ghalib. Great songs by Suraiya, talat, and Rafi saab. I have seen a few songs from Mirza Ghalib ......Anmol ghadi is the only film i have seen and to be frank i found her much more charming than Noor Jehan. Reeth, excellent pictures and info. Just a slight correction, probably an oversight: In Rustom aur Sohrab it was Premnath and not Pradeep Kumar who acted as the unfortunate Sohrab who is unwittingly killed by his own father, Rustom (Prithviraj Kapoor). Suraiyya played the mother of Premnath. The romantic angle was provided by beautiful lass called Mumtaz. Here, I would like to mention a news item that I had read in a daily many many years ago which would explain the craze for Suraiyya. It appears that a person actually robbed Suraiyya in her flat. No, not the money, but all her songs' records. The police finally nabbed the thief in Khandala. He was enjoying Suraiyya's songs, oblivious of the attendent risks. NASIR. NASIR. NASIR
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