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Legendary actor and Tragedy King Dilip Kumar passed away.

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23235) 8 Jul 21

Legendary actor Dilip Kumar sahab who was called Tragedy King passed away at the age of 99 years. He played tragic oriented roles in films like Devdas, Madhumati, Mughal I Azam was a great romantic hero. David Lynx offered him a...

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Which is more interesting comedy or tragedy?

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23235) 26 May 16

People say comedy enriches one's mind. Tragedy becomes one feel dull. Human life is full of tragedy. So they dont want any more. But it has been seen, that during 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, the 2 biggest Indian film icons were Raj...

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Is the combination of Dilip Kumar, Naushad Ali, Rafisahab grand?

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23235) 8 May 16

Dilip Kumar, Naushad Ali, Mohammad Rafi and Shakeel Badayani worked together in more than 18 films together. Dilip Kumar's films had very high quality music. Naushad Ali was a badshaah of hindustani classical music. Shakeel was a...

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Manoj Kumar truly deserved the Dada Saheb Phalke Award.

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23235) 7 May 16

This year veteran actor Manoj Kumar won the Dada Saheb Phalke Award, the highest award for film actors. In the past stalwarts like Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar won this award. Harikishan Goswami was the original name of Manoj Kumar....

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Which pair was better Raj Kapoor Nargis or Dilip Kumar Vaijayantimala?

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23235) 3 May 16

Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar were two tycoons of bollywood industry of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Very interestingly they acted in very few films, Raj Kapoor in only 67 films and Dilip Kumar in 62 films. Raj Kapoor concentrated a...

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Who is more beautiful Vaijayantimala or Meena Kumari?

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23235) 3 May 16

Vaijayantimala dominated bollywood films between 1950s and 1960s. Right from Dilip Kumar's Madhumati in 1958 to Raj Kapoor's Sangam in 1964, to Rajender Kumar's Suraj in 1966, Vaijayantimala was unparallel. She was probably one of...

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Who is more beautiful Nargis or Madhubala?

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23235) 3 May 16

In the 1950s and 1960, the bollywood queens who ruled the industry in addition to excellent acting skills were really beautiful. While Nargis Dutt was involved in romantic acting with Raj Kapoor in films like Barsaat, Awaara and...

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M Sadiq and K Asif did much better historical films in the past.

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23235) 26 Apr 16

There are many historical films made in the past in Bollywood. M Sadiq made the film Taj Mahal in 1963 with Pradip Kumar playing Shahjahan and Bina Rai playing Mumtaz Mahal. For getting appreciation M Sadiq was not required to...

Was Dilip Kumar the greatest bollywood actor ever.

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23235) 24 Apr 16

Amitabh Bacchan, one of India's greatest actors recently said in an interview, Indian films can be divided into the era, before Dilip Kumar and after Dilip Kumar. He considered him his idol. Dilip Kumar, the tragedy king, acted in...

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Is Mohammad Rafi the greatest Indian playback singer ever?

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23235) 24 Apr 16

Mohammad Rafi had been the greatest playback singer India had produced ever. He sang more than 5500 songs between 1944 to 1980. He sang for all the leading actors of bollywood like Dilip Kumar, Pradip Kumar, Rajender Kumar, Guru...

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Retired from life but never retired from work

DoctorDidi @DoctorDidi (7018) • India 5 Dec 11

Just yesterday I posted a discussion describing my sweet memories of Shammi Kapoor. Yesterday I had no opportunity to sit before my television as it is still now completely out of order for a couple of days and the television...

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20031969 @20031969 (932) • India 29 Jan 07

Known as Tragedy King of Indian Hindi Film. i had started watching movie of him from the age of 16 and Mashal was my first film. after watching this movie i was really impressed with him what he actor is. powerful performance...

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