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11 Gems from Manna De on his 98th Birth Anniversary

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11 Gems from Manna De on his 98th Birth Anniversary

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Born as Prabodh Chandra Dey on 1 May, 1919, and later nicknamed Manna Dey, he was one of those rare singers who sang in a number of languages.His career as a playback singer started with the movie Tamanna in the year 1943. He has sung over 3,500 songs. He has sung with singers of every generation in Indian films from 1940-2005. He has

Remembering DADA SAHEB PHALKE on his 147th Birth Anniversary

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Remembering DADA SAHEB PHALKE on his 147th Birth Anniversary

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 Born on April 30, 1870 at Tryambakeshwar, Maharashtra,The Father of Indian Cinema Dada Saheb Phalke  was artistic in nature and displayed great interest in the creative arts. He pursued arts for completing his graduation and later took up various jobs such as that of a photographer and a draftsman. He also tried setting up his printing business but closed it

Remembering LALITA PAWAR-The Leading Actress of Silent Era of Bollywood

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Remembering LALITA PAWAR-The Leading Actress of Silent Era of Bollywood

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Born Amba Laxman Rao Sagun on 18 April 1916, into an orthodox family in Yeola in Nashik,Lalita Pawar started her acting career at age nine in the film, Raja Harishchandra (1928), and later went on to play lead roles in silent era and 1940's films.She changed her name to Lalita and in the 1930s acted in a series of successful daredevil silent films like

Happy 75th Birthday Jeetendra -The Jumping Jack

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Happy 75th Birthday Jeetendra -The Jumping Jack

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Jeetendra was born Ravi Kapoor in Amritsar, Punjab in 1942.His father was in Immitation Jwellery business and used to supply jwellery to film industry. While supplying jewellery to V. Shantaram, he was cast as Sandhya's double in the 1959 movie "Navrang."He got his first big break when Shantaram cast him as hero in Geet Gaya Pattharon Ne (1964). Since then,

Remembering SUCHITRA SEN-The Golden Queen of Bengali Cinema on her Birth Anniversary

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Remembering SUCHITRA SEN-The Golden Queen of Bengali Cinema on her Birth Anniversary

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The first Indian actress to be awarded at an international film festival (Best Actress award for Saat Paake Bandha in the 1963 Moscow film festival). The reigning queen of Bengali Cinema for several decades started with Shesh Kothaay in 1952, but the film never got released. Her first release was Saat Number Kayedi.  Her pair with Uttam Kumar became so successful that the