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  Veteran journalist  Vinod  Mehta wrote the biography of Meena Kumari in 1972. In this book, he wrote about the exploitation of Meena Kumari whoever came close to her. She was first exploited by her family. She   started out as Baby Meena, a child artist and a breadwinner of the family.  As a child, she wasn't interested in a film career, and would rather attend school.  In spite of this, her parents started peddling four-year-old Mahjabeen(Real Name of Meena Kumari) to film studios for work opportunities so she was deprived of her childhood. One of the major blows in Meena Kumari's life was the death of her mother. She was only 14 then. In the film Industry also she struggled initially, though she was getting work but paid poorly.It was only after Baiju Bawra in 1952 she got recognition. On May 21, 1951, Meena Kumari was involved in a motor car accident while returning from  Mahabaleshwar  to  Bombay .  She was admitted to Sasoon Hospi...

  Pran, the  greatest villain ever in the history of Indian cinema  played hero roles from 1940–47.  In the 1940s, romantic duets featuring him, like the songs "Tere Naaz Uthane Ko Jee Chahta Hai" from  Grihasti , opposite Shardha, and 'Ud Ja Ud Ja Panchhi' from  Khandaan  (1942), with Noor Jehan, became very popular. He   got his first role in  Dalsukh M. Pancholi 's  Punjabi  film  Yamla Jat  (1940).  The film featured baby  Noor Jehan . as a child artist, Both appeared in Khandan(1942) as romantic leads. It was Noorjehan's first film as an adult. The film was a great success, Noorjehan shifted to Bombay.  She shared melodies with  Shanta Apte  in  Duhai  (1943). Pran was working in Lahore,  acted in 22 films from 1942 to 1946 in  Lahore ; 18 were released by 1947. Due to  India's partition in 1947 , his career had a brief break. His films from 1944 to 1947 were made in u...

  O P Nayyar and Asha Bhonsle gave us some of the most memorable songs of Hindi Cinema. S ongs like ‘Jaayiye aap kahan’ (Mere Sanam), ‘Raaton ko chori chori’ (Yeh Raat Phir Na Aayegi), ‘Zara haule haule’, ‘Meri jaan tumse sadke’ and ‘Aaj koi pyar se’ (all in Sawan Ki Ghata), ‘Aayiye Meherbaan’ (Howrah Bridge) and ‘Aankhon se jo utri hai dil mein’ (Phir Wohi Dil Laya Hoon) to sense the profound wavelength the two worked on.   Born on 16th Jan 1926, he came to Bombay for giving music for films. initially, he was offered  the background score for  Kaneez  (1949), and 1952's  Aasmaan (produced by  Dalsukh M. Pancholi ), was his first film as music director. His real break came with Guru Dutt's Aar Paar in 1954. After that, he gave music for    Mr. & Mrs. '55  (1955) and  C.I.D.  (1956). The songs of all these three films established him among the top composers of that time. The two met in 1952 at the music recording of a song f...

  I think that there has been no great  ghazal  singer who hasn’t sung Ghalib’s work, be it, Mehdi Hasan or Jagjit Singh, most of them have sung his ghazals.  He is said to have written his first poem at the age of 11, and by 19, was writing verses that became increasingly incomprehensible to even his contemporaries.   Ghalib's life was the subject of hundreds of plays regularly performed in Northern India and Pakistan. These plays were based on his life and his personal and professional relationships s tarting from the  Parsi Theatre  and  Hindustani Theatre  days.   He remains  the topmost poet whose poems are used as songs in Hindi films but he was not shown much on screen. The first time a full feature film was made in 1954 by V Shantaram  named  Mirza Ghalib  (1954) in which  Bharat Bhushan  plays Ghalib and  Suraiya  plays his courtesan lover, Chaudvin.  Gulzar  produced a...