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  There was a news that a  road in Andrews Ganj in south Delhi will soon be named after the late actor  Sushant Singh Rajput  . Naming the streets after Bollywood Celebrities is not new, this is being done from decades. A  few years back a Flyover in Mumbai was named after actress Sridevi. Very recently the Pakistan Govt is thinking of acquiring  the  ancestral houses of  Bollywood heroes Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor to be made as museums.  The museum will feature biographies, photographs and their affiliation with Peshawar, as well as other records of the two artists and their families.  A street in Pakistan, where the poet and lyricist Gulzar lived with his family, was renamed ‘Gulzar Street’.  Mumbai is the city where Bollywood is situated, many streets or crossings are named after many Bollywood celebrities. There is a crossing at Napean Sea Road named after the great singer Mukesh, Mohammed Rafi Chowk, SV Road, Bandra, Mumbai Nam...

  Vijay Anand was a complete Filmmaker. He was a director, producer, editor, screenplay writer, story writer, dialogue writer, actor, and also knew choreography. In an interview, he told that he even wrote Mukhda of his songs. He was nineteen when he wrote the story of Taxi Driver(1954) along with his sister in law (Chetan Anand's wife). He was in college when he had a full screenplay of Nau Do Gyarah was ready. His  cinematic vision was indeed unique and made him stand apart from  other filmmakers. It was his vision to make a movie on a Road Trip. Probably the first Hindi film shot on a road trip from Delhi to Mumbai. He was the first filmmaker who shot a live Film Premiere as a part of his film in Kala Bazar. Music in his films remained a key feature, he was superb in picturizing of songs.  He knew songs are the glue that binds audiences to Hindi films. Close your eyes and you can see Shammi Kapoor with a scarf around his neck, singing “Deewana Mujhsa Nahin” on a c...

  The accordion is an instrument similar to the harmonium but the way it is carried (on the shoulders), makes for a different feeling of joy. There was a time when it was a very popular instrument. It was a part of almost every song in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. It became popular with the 'Sangam' film song in which Raj Kapoor is shown playing this instrument. Well before 'Sangam'(1964), this instrument was in use, in fact, it was Naushad who introduced Accordion in the 1950 film 'Dastan' for the song    'Tara ri Aara ri' and 'Dhadak Dhadak Dil'.  C Ramchandra who used it for the first time in the song  ‘Gore Gore O Banke Chore’ from Samad hi (1951). Shankar Jaikishan used it in the 1951 film 'Awara' for the first time and since then  Shankar-Jaikishan  has utilized the accordion to the maximum. More than 50 %, estimated, of the songs composed by Shankar-Jaikishan have been orchestrated with Accordion. Goody Seervai  Goody Seervai was the pro...