After Bimal Roy's death Gulzar took to writing at full strength writing all kinds of movies from emotional ones like Anand, Safar, Aashirwad to comedies like Chupke-chupke, Bawarchi, Golmaal etc. However while he kept himself busy writing, he also made his inroads into directing movies. Gulzar's foray into film-making began in early 70's with Mere Apne the movies that introduced an array of young graduates from Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii), which had just began...
- 8/23/2013
- GlamSham
Seasoned actress Sarika, who started her career as a child artist in the late 1960s, says in over four decades there has been no marked improvement in the condition of young ones on movie sets and it can still be called 'child labour'. <p /><p>'Basic problems are still the same. It is said they have teachers coming on sets and proper time is given for homework, but nothing of that sort happens. It never used to happen then and things are still the same,' the 48-year-old, who is a mother of two daughters, told Ians in an interview. </p><p>'It's more glamourised now, but it can still be termed as child labour. Children are smarter now and that's why they are easier to work with,' said the actress who was seen as a child actor in films like 'Aashirwad', 'Satyakam', 'Jyoti' and 'Haar Jeet'.
- 2/17/2011
- Filmicafe
He broke all the rules of stardom and yet was a star, a romantic hero and an all-rounder par excellence. 47 was no age for one of Hindi cinema's brightest talents to go, but on November 6, 1985, Sanjeev Kumar passed away, leaving fans, friends and the Hindi film shell-shocked. Gulzar remembers Sanjeev Kumar "For me, he was the complete actor. I have always said that I had two anchors - one was Sanjeev Kumar, and the other was R.D.Burman. What most people do not know is that I knew Haribhai (as I called him) from the late 1950s. We were both with the Indian National Theatre where I would write for the plays and he was a stage actor. Sanjeev was a student of P.D.Shenoy, who was also teaching at the Filmalaya School of Acting and later turned film director. Sanjeev was just over 20 years old, and he was playing a father!
- 11/4/2010
- by Rajiv Vijayakar (Screen Weekly)
- BollywoodHungama
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