CLASSIC REEL: REAR WINDOW Another Alfred Hitchcock mystery thriller to find a place in all-time classic films, Rear Window is based on the short story, It Had To be Murder written by Cornell Woolritch. The ...
AMAR PREM The iconic film, based on the Bengali short story Hinger Kochuri, tells the story of a young boy who befriends his lovely, kind neighbour who is a prostitute (Tagore). Khanna stars as a ...
GUIDE A romantic drama based on R K Narayan’s The Guide, the runaway box-office hit also had memorable music by the legendary S D Burman. The film tells the love story of the married Rosy ...
GONE WITH THE WIND Gone With the Wind by Victor Fleming, regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, was adapted from Margaret Mitchell’s book of the same name. Set in the southern ...
SHOLAY Who can talk of classic films and miss out on this epic blockbuster, which was a heady concoction of action, drama and some gutwrenching romance? The heart-warming friendship of Veeru and Jai, immortalized in ...
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA The multiple-Oscar winning war drama tells the story of T E Lawrence who got together the warring Arab tribes to fight against the Turks in World War I. Nominated for 10 Oscars ...
Awara The Raj Kapoor-directed film, in which he also acted in the lead role, tells the story of a vagabond (Kapoor) and the wealthy Rita (played commendably by Nargis). Awāra was a hit not just ...
Love, and Its Constraints Kamal Amrohi’s Pakeezah is a paean to his love for his wife and the lead actress of the film, Meena Kumari. The film tells the heartwrenching story of a courtesan who ...
The Original Screwball Comedy It Happened One Night, directed by Frank Capra, took the industry by storm when it released in 1934, with its quirky characters of the rich, spoilt heiress (Claudette Colbert) and the ...