This weekend also, I am continuing with Filmfare Awards, and this time I am writing about Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Male & Female). These awards were started from the year 1954, one year later than the earlier mentioned awards 1954 : David (M) in Boot Polish & Usha Kiran(F) in Baadban. 1955 : Abhi…
Jet Airways
What has happened to Jet Airways ? It seems that India’s oldest privately owned airline is on the verge of total collapse, and it’s flight operations are at the minimum level. As per latest position of yesterday, only 5 of its aircrafts were in operation yesterday. The domestic side of Mumbai’s T2 terminal looks deserted,…
Tuesday Titbits
Some Tit bit news on this Tuesday of April 2019. Yesterday, I wrote about Biopic film on PM. Now Supreme Court (SC) has asked Election Commission (EC) to watch this film and give its decision in a sealed cover by April 22, on whether the film could be released during the polls. The film…
Monday Thoughts
As the election fever is getting hot day by day, few stray thoughts on this Monday of April 2019 So pseudo seculars are back in action again, 700 + writers, film artist, drama artist , play writers etc have come together, and formed a brigade which is appealing to people to vote against Modi….
Weekend
Continuing with Filmfare Awards, this weekend I am covering Best Actor Male (M) & Best Actor Female (F). 1953- Dilip Kumar (M) for Daag & Meena Kumari (F) for Baiju Bawra 1954- Bharat Bhushan (M) for Chaitanya Mahaprabhu & Meena Kumari (F) for Parineeta 1955- Dilip Kumar(M) for Azaad & Kamini Kaushal (F) for…
Thursday Thoughts
So General Election fever is slowly picking up. Daily you read about accusations and counter accusations between Ruling party and opposition parties, and even the smallest of the thing is being blown into gigantic proportions. This will keep on going till the last day of campaigning. So few thoughts on this Thursday of April 2019….
100 Years
Today I am going back to history, almost 100 years back. To be precise, I am referring to an incident which happened on 13th Apr 1919 in Amritsar during British Raj. The incident is known in history as JALIANWALA BAGH MASSACRE From the day World War 1 started, there had been an increasing civil…
Weekend
On Today’s weekend blog, I am again back to Bollywood and this time , writing on awards. In the Bollywood Filmfare Awards are considered to be the most prestigious Awards. In this blog, I will be covering about Best Picture (P) & Best Director(D) Awards. The awards were started for first time , for the…
Thursday Post
In continuation of yesterday’s blog about some interesting news items in last few days. In today’s blog I am elaborating on one more news item, and this news items is regarding: PC Chidambaram – He is a Congressmen and staunch Modi critic, who has always blasted the economic and financial policies of Modi’s govt. In…
Wednesday Post
In the last few days, few of the political stories which caught my attention, and are worth pondering over and one of them have been described below, others may be in my future blogs Shatrughan Sinha- he is a Bollywood actor, who started from a bit role in 1970 and then later turned to villain…