LIVING LEGENDS OF THE CENTURY

It's never easy to pick the heroes of a century. Yet pick them we must. Even at the risk of ruffling feathers, of tearing off ceaseless debate. SCREEN relies on popular mandate, entirely in shortlisting the big four-- enduring appeal and success percentage being the sole yardsticks... The trinity of Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand ruled the box-office in tandem for almost two decades.

RAKHI TANDON
Riding High

Sometimes destiny works in strange ways. Not even in her wildest dream did Rakhi Tandon imagine that she will face the camera one day, leave alone becoming a television star. Nor did she dream that she will end up marrying a veteran producer-director’s son. And eventually become a television producer herself.
 

BUMPER CROP OF DIRECTORS

Everyone agrees that a film director is the captain of his ship, that is the film. Any film is moulded according to the visualisation and concept of the director. Filmmaking may be a team work with each craft contributing to the whole. But it is the director who finally gives shape to the narrative and presentation. As they say film is not solely a medium of music or dialogue, or cinematography or screenplay or editing or sound or even the visuals but it is a proportionate combination of all these contributions.

Milestones from a musical Millennium

With the advent of the first talkie Alam Ara in 1931, film music began its glorious innings, providing thousands of songs for every conceivable situation and of every possible genre or mood. As Javed Akhtar puts it, “The best of film songs have now transcended the barrier and will go down in history as timeless folk songs.”