Blogs about: Mehboob Khan

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Revival of the masters

utpalb21 wrote 2 months ago: By Utpal Borpujari In India, cinema means big budgets, multiplexes, foreign locations, et al., espec … more →

Tags: Cinema, Indian Cinema, media, Literature, English Literature, Hindi Cinema / Bollywood, Tamil cinema, Bengali Cinema, Deccan Herald

Mother India

udaywords wrote 3 months ago: Mother India is one of India’s greatest films. It was released in 1957 but is still in Indian … more →

Tags: Nargis, Naushad, filmfare, Oscar, Indian FIlm In Oscar Nomination, Raj Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Dutt

Amar (1954)1 comment

dustedoff wrote 7 months ago: Mehboob Khan, who directed Aan, Andaz and Mother India, also made this unusual film. It explores the … more →

Tags: Bollywood, amar, Dilip Kumar, jayant, Madhubala, Mukri, Nimmi

The story of Indian cinema, past forward

utpalb21 wrote 9 months ago: A new series of handbooks on greats of Indian cinema seeks to make our cinematic past easily accessi … more →

Tags: Cinema, Indian Cinema, Film History, media, Sakaal Times, Literature, English Literature, India, Hindi Cinema / Bollywood

Seduced by the Familiar: An incisive look at mainstream Hindi cinema

utpalb21 wrote 9 months ago: Raghavendra’s book makes great reading if you are believe there is more to Hindi cinema than just mi … more →

Tags: Cinema, Indian Cinema, Film History, media, Sakaal Times, Literature, English Literature, India, Hindi Cinema / Bollywood

REELING THE REAL: A look at the technique of Realism in Indian Cinema.

viperskunk wrote 11 months ago: Have you ever seen on-screen, in a movie, the sight of someone defecating near the railway tracks in … more →

Tags: Articles, essays, Opinion, Bimal Roy, Dharti ke Laal, Do Bigha Zameen, eroticism, Halla Bol, Indian Cinema

Mother India – The Cinema of Mehboob Khan 3 comments

shakila wrote 11 months ago: Would it be true to say that the song sequence as a narrative convention of popular Indian cinema ca … more →

Tags: film, India, hindi cinema, British, Soviet Union, Nargis, Raj Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar

Those were the days of 'Mother India'...

Pavan Gupta wrote 1 year ago: ‘Mother India’, the film was released on October 25, 1957. I was only 9 years old. It wa … more →

Tags: Bollywood, filmfare, India, Mother India, October 25th 1957, Producer-Director, Gone with the Wind, Aurat, Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Humayun (1945)18 comments

memsaab wrote 1 year ago: This bloodthirsty Mughal historical directed by Mehboob Khan is replete with bristling mustaches, g … more →

Tags: Hindi Movies, Ashok Kumar, Chandra Mohan, Ghulam Haider, good Hindi movie, KN Singh, Mughal epic, Nargis


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