The national award winning composer, known at the Father of Indian film music, also received the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award in 1979 for his...

A voracious reader, Guru Dutt enjoyed watching jatras and films, and dancing. Bengal had a seminal influence on his life, with him growing up amidst...

I was 10, when I heard the song, 'Seeney mein sulgatey hain armaan, ankhon me udasi chayyi hai'. At that age I couldn't comprehend the meaning of the...

Isn't it a sheer coincidence that five young men came to the city of their dreams to become an actor? Some were outright rejected and some did cameos...

The year was 1905. The partition of Bengal had engulfed the states in an unprecedented political turbulence, ushering in an era of intellectual...