Thursday, May 09, 2013

The Dream Merchants!!



On 3rd May, 1903, precisely 100 years back, Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, a small town photographer from Maharashtra, screened his black-and-white silent film Raja Harischandra and that made him the founding father of Indian cinema. This year, on same day Indian film industry celebrate a century of its existence. The film was based on the life of Raja Harischandra, a famous character from Hindu mythology.

Dhundiraj Govind Phalke's better known as  Dadasaheb Phalke, made almost 95 films but never made any money and  he died in penury.

Apart from Hindi film industry India also have many regional film industry with some great name.

Hindi Film Industry also known as Bollywood. As per my current status I can proudly declare that am not at all a movie buff. However, during my school and college day things was different. During my early working years I was greatly exposed to the Hollywood but once I returned back to India once again I gone back to the Hindi movies.  On Indian cinema’s centenary, the blog is a tribute to the world’s largest Film industry.

It is difficult to handpick a few but listing my top ten films, top three actor and actress.

My Top 10 Indian Movie

  1. Pather Pachali [1955]

8/10 - IMDB

Director: Satyajit Ray
Story by: Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
Cast: Karuna Banerjee, Chunibala Devi, Uma Dasgupta, More

  1. Sholay [1975]

8/10 - IMDb

Director : Ramesh Sippy
Cast : Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini,
Jaya Bhaduri and Amjad Khan

  1. Mother India [1957]

7/10 - IMDB

Director: Mehboob Khan
Cast : Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, and Raaj Kumar.

  1. Mugle Azam [1960]

7.7/10 - IMDB

Director :  K. Asif
Cast :  Prithviraj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Madhubala and Durga Khote

  1. Awara

7.6/10 - IMDB

Directed :     Raj Kapoor
Cast : Prithviraj Kapoor, Nargis, Raj Kapoor, Leela Chitnis
  1. Pyasa

7.7/10 - IMDB

Director: Guru Dutt
Cast : Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Mala Sinha


  1. 3 Idiots

8.3/10 - IMDB

Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Cast :  Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Sharman, R. Madhavan


  1. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

7.8/10-IMDb

Director : Aditya Chopra
Cast : Shahrukh Khan and Kajol

  1. Do Bigha Zameen


7.4/10 - IMDb

Director : Bimal Roy
Cast : Balraj Sahni and Nirupa Roy.


  1. Gol Maal

7.7/10 - IMDb
Directer:  Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
Cast : Amol Palekar, Utpal Dutt, Bindiya Goswami

Top Three Actor and Actress

Amitabh Bachchan
Aamir Khan
Uttam Kumar

Waheeda Rehman
Madhubala
Kajol

Indian cinema can not go without music and my top three :

Music Director

R. D. Burman
S. D. Burman
Naushad

Singer

Kishore Kumar
Mohd. Rafi
Yeshudas

Lata Mangeshkar
Asha Bhosle
Sunidhi Chouhan


!!!Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. - Ingmar Bergman!!!

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