mr . india ( 1961 film )
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mr. india: lyrics and video of songs from the movie mr. india (1961 )
amitabh' s
don
( 1978), double man (1967) & mr. india (1961 )
where are all the child actors of mr. india (a hindi film) now ?
but still i. s. johar' s
mr. india
was the first one as it came in 1961 .
where are all the child actors of mr. india (a hindi film) now? - quora
for javed akhtar, who also wrote the lyrics for mr india, it was also a wonderful coincidence that 26 years before him, his father, poet jan nisar akhtar, wrote the lyrics for another mr india, released in 1961. starring is johar and geeta bali, this mr india was directed by gp sippy, father of ramesh sippy. johar wrote the story, screenplay and dialogues for the film .
mr. india (1987): an inspired mix of kids’ film, social satire and superhero caper, shekhar kapur’s mr. india, about an ordinary man who can turn invisible, has endured as one of the first cinematic memories of a generation of moviegoers .
nice post. i didn’t even realize there was another mr. india until now. i think geeta bali looks a bit like urmila matondkar in the first screen cap as well as in the “jacki is emotionally upset” screen cap, hai na? i believe i will enjoy this mr. india more than the mr. mogambo version. : )
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hi raj, thanks for the additional name. but as mentioned in the article even mr. india released in 1961 only and there were many more films with the similar themes released before don. so we cannot say from which film exactly the inspiration came from. cheers !
hello sir! don (1978) was the remake of salaam memsaab (1961) starring kumkum .
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chak de! india (2007): the shimit amin drama remains the ultimate sports film for india. shah rukh khan memorably played the role of a coach to a women’s hockey team .
shyamchi aai (1953): this legendary marathi film, a mother - son story, was the first movie to win the president’s gold medal for the all india best feature film at the national film awards .
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meanwhile, javed akhtar wrote all the songs for the 1987 film, including hits ‘kate nahi katate' and ‘hawa hawaii’. music composers laxmikant - pyarelal were behind the super - hit music of mr india (1987) .
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but there’s one thing the newspapers have generally danced past, and it happens to be the role that has cast the longest shadow out of a career of thousands: his performance as mr. i. y. yunioshi in the classic 1961 film “breakfast at tiffany’s. ”
gunga jumna (1961): the film produced by actor dilip kumar was possibly the first mainstream indian film to have the lead actor on the wrong side of the law and inspired many good brother - bad brother movies .
harishchandrachi factory (2009): in this marathi film, paresh mokashi imagines the making of india’s first feature film, raja harishchandra, in 1913, by dadasaheb phalke (nandu madhav) .
hi shiraz, it seems that you havent read the write - up completely as there i have mentioned that we have made films in india on the same concept even before
double man
came in 1967. here we made
mr. india
with i. s. johar in 1961 and
china town
with shammi kapoor in 1962. and eveidently both were made years before
double man
.
this tribal tale starring vyjayanthimala was india’s first musical blockbuster. composer hemanta mukherjee’s immortal melodies include
hence, amitabh bachhan' s “don” seems to be influenced by our own “mr. india” ,
china town
or may be
kalicharan
too as it seems. and since there is no info of any other movie released before “mr. india” based on the similar plot, so that clearly indicates that bollywood came up with this original story idea first, which later may have influenced the project of the western film - makers in all possibilites .
aparoopa (1982): set in colonial upper - class assam, the jahnu barua - directed vehicle was the first assamese film produced by the national film development corporation (nfdc) of india .
mere mehboob qayamat hogi (original) - mr. x in bombay - kishore kumars greatest hits - old songs
i haven’t seen duplicate in years, and only once. should watch it again, i remember that i liked it. someone else said above that they were reminded of it by my description of mr. india .
my dear kuttichathan (1984): india’s first 3d film was a malayalam fantasy. a re - edited and dubbed hindi version with additional scenes was released in 1997 .
shekhar kapur’s mr india (1987), starring anil kapoor and sridevi, acquired blockbuster status on its release. it stands out in the careers of everyone involved in the making of the film. from producer boney kapoor to writers salim khan and javed akhtar, they all count the movie as monumental in their lives .
acclaimed poet and occasional lyricist jan nisar akhtar wrote six of mr india’s eight songs with numbers like ‘dekha na jaye’ sung by geeta dutt and ‘kya soch raha matwale’ sung by mohammad rafi. lyricist anjan wrote the remaining two songs while gs kohli composed the music .
the film focuses on the two - week period in 1961 when travers (played by emma thompson), the author of “mary poppins, ” visited disney studios to decide, after being wooed by walt disney (tom hanks) for two decades, whether to hand over the film rights to her beloved books .
india ’67 (1968): s. sukhdev’s documentary, made for films division, is an evocative, wide - ranging look at a day in the life of india, consisting of a silent montage of shots from across the country .
uski roti (1969): the mani kaul film marked a seminal moment in india’s new wave cinema movement. the striking visual design and minimalist approach make for hindi cinema’s equivalent of pather panchali .
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ghatashraddha (1977): the girish kasaravalli - directed film marked the advent of kannada films into india’s new - age cinema movement. the national award winner took on excommunication in an aristocratic brahmin society .
bandit queen (1994): shekhar kapur’s last film in india was also his crowning achievement—a biopic of phoolan devi, starring seema biswas, which remains as disturbing and powerful today as it was back in 1994 .
it was the first film of gs kohli. produced & directed by gp sippy. i. s. johar & geetabali were lead players. kamaljeet hubby of waheeda & hero of many films - son of india, shagun etc. was a villain. it was his first film too .
salaam bombay! (1988): mira nair’s 1988 film about mumbai street kids has lost none of the raw power that saw it win the camera d’or at the cannes film festival and garner an oscar nomination for best foreign language film .
if mahabharat was to be made into a hindi film, what actors would play what characters? who would be the director (preferably from hindi film ...
according to hanks, the cantankerous writer would not have been pleased with “ saving mr. banks, ” just like she wasn’t thrilled with several aspects of “mary poppins. ”
mother india (1957): mehboob khan’s epic was the first indian nominee for an academy award in the best foreign language film category. it also set the template for the portrayal of movie mothers in the coming decades. sixthmads
oooo, feroz khan (and this from someone who’s not fond of him) looks awesome in that screen cap. would like to see mr india just for him – and of course for geeta bali. she’s always so effervescent and bright - eyed (and i love that exaggerated firang accent! – very marilyn !) .
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chek out at: urltoken but quite interestingly a few years before these projects came into existence, there was a so called low budget hindi movie released in 1961 with a title “mr. india”, starring the famous comedian, i. s. johar in the lead. now this movie also had a similar story written around the outline of replacing a well know gangster with his look alike according to a plan made by the local police. i. s. johar himself played the double role in this thriller cum comic movie directed by g. p. sippy
pushpak (1987): kamal haasan’s black comedy was india’s first silent full - length feature film. unnamed characters in a plot that follows a penniless, unemployed youth make for possibly the most subtle, intelligent slapstick comedy there could be .
film :
breakfast at tiffany' s
( 1961) is a hollywood classic that centers on the romance between young new york socialite holly golightly (audrey hepburn) and a man who moves into her building. character' s background: mr. yunioshi is holly' s hot - tempered japanese landlord, who she consistently tries to avoid. actor' s background: mickey rooney was not japanese. in one of the most outlandish displays of yellowface and hollywood stereotyping, the american - born actor of scottish descent had slanted eyelids, buck teeth and a thick accent in the film .
mr india (1961) revolved around gullo (johar), a dandy with his beloved indie dog, charlie. charlie falls in love with jackie, a pure - bred english dog belonging to bambie (geeta bali). the rich rai bahadur’s daughter bambie is dismayed to find jackie associating with a common street dog whose owner happens to be gullo. but, eventually, the two – that is bambie and gullo – are drawn together. the only spanner in the works is the infamous bandit jung bahadur, who looks like gullo, who causes havoc with his presence .
hmmm…it also seems like the inspiration for srk film “duplicate” (98). sounds awesome !
hi raj, saw salaam memsaab as discussed, yes it begins the same way with the exact plot but then goes on a different kind of journey altogether. so i would still consider johar' s mr. india much close to don then sm. but the information was still valuable as its another name added to the list of similar movies. cheers !
lagaan (2001): this 2001 hit, directed by ashutosh gowariker and starring aamir khan, ingeniously married two major indian obsessions, film and cricket, and paved the way for future sports - centric audience - pleasers like chak de! india and dangal .
the enigma of the case has drawn quite a few adaptations of the case into literary texts like indira sinha' s the death of mr love, salman rushdie' s midnight' s children (a chapter) and now akshay kumar' s rutsom, on which the entire film is based .
i’m glad you found a sub - titled version of this. i simply loved geeta bali in it. i don’t think i’ve seen a more adorably pretentious or hilarious potrayal of a memsaab in any hindi before or after mr. india. i read somewhere that geeta was illiterate and had to have the dialogues read out to her which makes her performance even more remarkable .
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after watching the film, which closed the london film festival in october and opened the afi film festival in november, karen dotrice, who played young jane banks in “mary poppins, ” said she now realizes — 50 years after shooting the movie — why walt disney was so affectionate toward her .
yes
kalicharan
was also made on the same concept but so were many other movies after
don
. so here the original idea seems to have adapted by indian film - makers first as you can see comparing the years. however i would love to know that whether there was any movie made in the west on the same subject before 1961 .
chemmeen (1965): this beautifully shot 1965 film, one of the classics of malayalam cinema, tackled the difficult subject of an inter - religious affair. it was screened at the cannes film festival .
wow, helen looks different. she looks 15 or something. i think this movie was probably shot in the late 1950s mainly because helen was rather plump in the late 1950s. she looked skinny in her other movies released in 1961. feroz also looks like a teenager
yes, shammi himself has said that urmila reminds him of geeta. i like both mr. indias (they’re quite different), but would definitely give this one the edge just because of geeta (and the dogs natch) .
at 70, india has come a long way from the country the british exited in 1947, and which they believed (and hoped) would not survive in its then form. india has since evolved into a vibrant constitutional democracy and made rapid strides in several domains (although there is a lot of work still to be done). over the next few days, to mark the 70th anniversary of india’s independence, mint will profile 70 milestones across the years, and across domains—politics, business, entertainment and sport. put together by mint’s reporters and editors, these entirely subjective listings are far from comprehensive, as is only to be expected when one is dealing with the seven - decade - old post - independence history of a country as large and complex as india .
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dev anand established his film production company navketan international films in 1949, and has produced more than 35 memorable motion pictures—all of which have stood the test of time. navketan’s “hum dono”, was india’s entry at the berlin international film festival in 1960. in 1964, he produced “guide” - - a landmark in indian cinema. “guide” went on to win filmfare awards in five categories. he co - produced the english version of “guide” with the late american nobel laureate pearl s. buck (of “the good earth” fame). “guide” was india’s entry for the oscar that year. guide was only recently selected to be screened in the ‘cannes classics’ section at the 61st festival de cannes in may, 2008 making it the first indian feature film ever to be selected for cannes .
arguably raj kapoor’s finest film, this is one of indian cinema’s greatest exports, loved in china, russia and turkey .
rang de basanti (2006): rakeysh omprakash mehra’s multi - starrer introduced india to citizen activism while also making patriotism cool. the debate on its take on social vigilantism may continue but its impact is undeniable .
oh banno, i would love to watch this film with you. and dhanno and teja. it is too much fun .
he is of course known in india also for his hollywood roles – he was part of hollywood way before the likes of kabir bedi and amrish puri. i remember him in lawrence of arabia and death on the nile .
hum aapke hain koun. .! (1994): sooraj barjatya’s romantic musical doubled up as india’s favourite family drama and most successful box - office performer ever, flagging off the feel - good era for years after release .
aadukalam (2011): vetrimaran’s electrifying 2014 film is set in the world of cockfighting and features a standout lead turn from dhanush .
every 1990s youngster is aware of the 1987 film as it had acquired cult status by then. last year, the cast and crew had a reunion of sorts on a panel at the 17th jio mami mumbai film festival where plans for a possible sequel were revealed .
in the decades since the film was released, rooney’s portrayal of yunioshi — taped eyelids, buck teeth, sibilant accent and all — has become one of the persistent icons of ethnic stereotype, brought up whenever conversation turns to the topic of hollywood racism. the depiction has prompted widespread protests whenever the film is screened; paramount, the studio behind “breakfast” has now acknowledged yunioshi as such a toxic caricature that its canonical “centennial collection” dvd release of the film includes a companion documentary, “ mr. yunioshi: an asian perspective, ” which features asian american performers and advocates in conversation about the role’s lasting cultural impact and the broader context of asian and other racial stereotypes in entertainment .
meena’s husband roop k shorey produced and directed the film. i read later that she became quite a rage in lahore and went there to make a movie – a copy of mr. and mrs 55. meena chose to stay back in lahore. roop shorey came back broken hearted. her career in pakistan didn’t really take off, she fell into doing bit roles and during her final years was quite poor .
there is plenty of wacky and hilarious fun in this film, and really good songs. my favorite is the cracktastic “babalu o babalu” :
7. the bombay high court found nanavati guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment. he appealed the sentence in the supreme court, which upheld the decision of the high court in november 1961. meanwhile, a tabloid called blitz was championing nanavati' s cause, and the case caught the public imagination in such a way that 25p copy sold for rs 2 apiece .
om dar - b - dar (1988): the kamal swaroop - directed film married mythology and art with politics and philosophy in a non - linear narrative unlikely to be understood by most bollywood buffs. despite achieving cult status, the film didn’t receive a commercial release until 2014 .
the film' s technical wizardry is extraordinary, especially in the film' s closing scene (a complex, trick composite shot) - the special visual effects of ub iwerks were nominated for an academy award (the film' s sole nomination), but the oscar was lost to cleopatra (1963). hundreds of birds (gulls, ravens, and crows) were trained for use in some of the scenes, while mechanical birds and animations were employed for others .
gangs of wasseypur i, ii (2012): anurag kashyap’s sprawling, violent, endlessly quotable film about gangsters in small - town jharkhand reinvigorated the crime genre .
angamaly diaries (2017): in this malayalam gangster film by lijo jose pellissery, there’s no time to recover from one dazzling set piece before another’s upon you .
audiences sat at burbank’s walt disney studios on dec. 9 to watch the premiere of “saving mr. banks” — a disney movie about the making of a disney movie. as producer alison owen put it best, “i feel like i’m inside a russian doll: there’s dolls inside dolls inside dolls. ” what could be more meta? [ … ]
alam ara (1931): if bollywood is, at its core, song - and - dance cinema, then its starting point is ardeshir irani’s alam ara (1931). india’s first talkie (and a musical), it starred prithviraj kapoor and zubeida, and featured seven songs .
guide (1965): the vijay anand film based on r. k. narayan’s novel fuses love, heartbreak and penance together in a way few could have managed .
the film commences on a white background, as dark black, silhouetted bird - shapes rush through and destroy the robin' s egg - blue credits as they appear, accompanied by upsetting noises of screeching flapping sounds and bird cries. the action of the film occurs over a five - day period, from a friday through a tuesday morning .
kagaz ke phool (1959): guru dutt’s semi - autobiographical film was a commercial failure, but is regarded today as one of the great tragic melodramas of indian cinema .
despite the studio’s reputation for going to great lengths to maintain its squeaky - clean image, director john lee hancock said disney didn’t ask for a single change with the film .
“it’s very unusual for us to do a premiere here on the lot, but we couldn’t resist in this case, inviting you all to a movie studio to watch a movie about making a movie, ” walt disney chairman alan horn said. “this is very special because it was in april of 1961 that our own walt disney escorted p. l. travers around this very lot and the discussions you’re about to see unfold on the screen actually took place. ”
hyderabad blues (1998): nagesh kukunoor’s amiably ramshackle 1998 film, made on a shoestring budget, anticipated the “hindie” movement just before it came to the fore in the 2000s .
film :
the conqueror
( 1956) was a film that chronicled the rise of genghis khan. character' s background: the emperor and legendary conqueror genghis khan was mongol, and born near the border of present - day mongolia and siberia. actor' s background: john wayne had no asian ancestry. he was of mixed - european descent .
stars, including jason segel, wayne knight and paula abdul, later made their way to the after - party at a café on the studio lot. the interior was decorated with kites, umbrellas and photos and sketches from the actual making of “mary poppins. ” revelers snacked on mickey mouse - shaped red jello — a coy reference to a scene in “saving mr. banks. ”
film :
the house of spirits
( 1993) is a film based on chilean writer isabel allende' s bestseller of the same name. it tells the story of a rancher, his wife and their family as they face turbulent times in chile. character' s background: clara del valle trueba is a clairvoyant and the wife of said rancher. much like all of the characters in the film and book, she is chilean. actress' background: streep is not latina or of latin american descent. she is of mixed - european ancestry .
an encounter with faces (1978): vidhu vinod chopra’s short documentary film on children’s homes in dongri and mankhurd in mumbai was nominated for the academy award in the documentary short subject category .
it’s mostly a comedy all - the - way film. sweet and funny romance between motilal and meena shorey. really funny scenes with johar. the script i think was written by johar .
swayamvaram (1974): adoor gopalakrishnan’s directorial debut pioneered the new wave film movement in malayalam cinema and was also one of the first films in the language to use synchronized sound and outdoor locales .
celluloid man (2012): shivendra singh dungarpur’s documentary is a tribute to an unsung hero, film archivist p. k. nair, as well as a love letter to indian cinema itself .
but the film cannot solely be interpreted in a scientific manner, because as the actors in the film discover in the long discussion scene in the tides restaurant, there is no solid, rational reason why the birds are attacking. they are not seeking revenge for nature' s mistreatment, or foreshadowing doomsday, and they don' t represent god' s punishment for humankind' s evil .
heer raanjha (1970): chetan anand’s romantic film played out entirely in verse, including its spoken dialogue. urdu poet kaifi azmi, who wrote the verse dialogue, pulled off a remarkable feat .
audiences sat at burbank’s walt disney studios on dec. 9 to watch the premiere of “ saving mr. banks ” — a disney movie about the making of a disney movie. as producer alison owen put it best, “i feel like i’m inside a russian doll: there’s dolls inside dolls inside dolls. ” what could be more meta? julie andrews and dick van dyke, who starred in “mary poppins” — the subject of the film — and richard sherman, one half of the sherman brothers who scored “poppins, ” were in the audience. sherman was introduced before the screening alongside jason schwartzman, who depicts him in “banks. ”
wow! never knew such a film existed. it is surely the original don! i really loved is johar and tried to get some information on him on the net and found nothing. so sad !
another great i. s. johar comedy. ek thi ladki. starring motilal and meena shorey. this movie has that song rage of the beginning 50s – lara lappa. . watch this film! !
arth (1982): mahesh bhatt’s powerful, semi - autobiographical film was not just the ultimate feminist take but also the perfect ode to the complex web that the husband, wife and other woman narrative demands .
nayakan (1987): even though its narrative is basically that of the godfather, mani ratnam’s nayakan, with kamal haasan in the lead, is a strong contender for the greatest indian gangster film of all time .
parinda (1989): a seminal gangster film from vidhu vinod chopra, celebrated for binod pradhan’s shadowy photography, the razor - sharp editing by renu saluja, and nana patekar’s turn as the psychotic crime boss anna .
film :
21
( 2008) is a film based on true events that follows the story of a brilliant mit student who is trained, along with other students, to become an expert card counter in blackjack. character' s background: the protagonist of the film, ben campbell, is actually based on real - life mit card counter and blackjack player jeffrey ma. ma is an american of chinese descent. in fact, most of the real - life blackjack team was of asian descent but were portrayed in the film by white actors. actor' s background: jim sturgess is a british actor, who required a dialect coach to master an american accent for the role. while sturgess' role in
21
was completely whitewashed, the actor is also known for having worn full - on yellowface for his
cloud atlas
character in 2012 .
the birds (1963) is a modern hitchcock thriller / masterpiece, his first film with universal studios. it is the apocalyptic story of a northern california coastal town filled with an onslaught of seemingly unexplained, arbitrary and chaotic attacks of ordinary birds - not birds of prey. ungrammatical advertising campaigns emphasized :
the birds is coming .
this technicolor feature came after psycho (1960) - another film loaded with' bird' references .
bandini (1963): bimal roy’s film was a dark masterpiece of tangled emotions, with fine performances by nutan and dharmendra, and s. d. burman’s haunting songs including mora gora ang laile and o mere majhi .
ankur (1974): shyam benegal’s directorial debut took on everything from alcoholism to casteism to sexual desire in one powerful narrative. the national award - winning film established lead actor shabana azmi as the face of parallel cinema .
oye lucky! lucky oye! (2008): no one has skewered social - climbing in delhi as incisively as dibakar banerjee does in his second film. abhay deol plays a “superchor” who wants to move up in life .
maya bazaar (1957): the epic fantasy film directed by kadiri venkata reddy, based on the mahabharat, greatly upped the technical quotient for its time and also became the first telugu movie to be remastered and coloured in 2010 .
film :
dragon seed
( 1944) is a film set during the second sino - japanese war. jade is a chinese woman that leads her village to fight against japanese invaders. character' s background: again, jade is a meant to be a chinese woman living in a small village in china. actress' background: katharine hepburn was not chinese, or of asian - descent. the american - born actress was of mixed - european descent .
film :
argo
( 2012) is based on the real - life work of top - level cia operative antonio j. mendez, who helped orchestrate the rescue of six american hostages in iran in 1980. the film won the academy award for best picture. character' s background: antonio j. mendez was born in nevada and is mexican - american. actor' s background: ben affleck is not latino. he is of mixed - european descent .
hi bobbyji, quite interesting information about don and other similar films. i remember one film with more or less same theme which released in late sixties nasihat produced and directed by dara singh and main role was acted by daraji himself. cheers
charlie the third - class dog was a total heartbreaker (and not just for jackie). you are right—he has hunnybunny’s face (border collie? is what i thought might be in there). it’s a fun film, totally recommend it .
the film reminded me of “duplicate” also, and since they share a line of dialogue, in which the hero in disguise complains about the villain’s heavy coat (so unsuitable for the indian climate) i feel it must have been an intentional homage .
dil chahta hai (2001): releasing a year into the new century, farhan akhtar’s 2001 film introduced a new kind of cool to hindi cinema, aided by its naturalistic dialogue, fetching production design and music by newcomers shankar - ehsaan - loy .
3 idiots (2009): rajkumar hirani’s comedy drama set records for box office success on release. the aamir khan - starrer was the first indian film to cross the rs200 crore mark, besides opening up the china market where it made rs16 crore .
film :
the last airbender
( 2010) is based on a nickelodeon cartoon featuring tribes and characters of asian and native american - descent and their journey to stop the fire nation from taking over their tribes. characters' background: katara, her brother sokka and the rest of the water tribe are said to be primarily influenced by the inuit people and culture. aang, the titular character of the film and series, is of asian ancestry. casts' background: the actors who portrayed the three main character mentioned above were all white with no asian or native american ancestry - - noah ringer as aang, nicola peltz as katara, and jackson rathbone as sokka. and the actors of color that were cast in the film? they were all cast as villains .
pather panchali (1955): satyajit ray’s bengali drama changed the face of not just regional but indian cinema. often hailed as the greatest film ever made in the country, it brought in a parallel cinema movement that justified the unmatched international recognition the movie received .
certainly it seems like is johar can be credited with inventing several story lines which became standard! geeta is gorgeous in this, and just so funny. i laughed and laughed, honestly (and not at the film, but with it—big difference !): - )
film :
othello
( 1965) is one of many film adaptations of shakespeare' s tragedy of the same name. character' s background: othello is a general in the venetian army. he is also a christian moor, which means he is generally depicted with a dark - complexion. actor' s background: british actor laurence olivier has no african or arab roots, which is why he wore full - on blackface to portray the jealous moor. that' s right, he painted his skin several shades darker to play othello .
the film' s non - existent musical score is replaced by an electronic soundtrack (including simulated bird cries and wing - flaps), with hitchcock' s favorite composer bernard herrmann serving as a sound consultant. hitchcock introduced a' fascinating new personality' for the film - his successor to grace kelly - a cool, blonde professional model named' tippi' hedren, in her film debut in a leading role. [ hedren reprised her character in a minor supporting role, in an inferior made - for - tv sequel, the birds ii: land' s end (1994), set in the new england fishing town of land' s end. the director was rick rosenthal, although the standard generic pseudonym' alan smithee' is found in the credits. leads rod taylor and tippi hedren are replaced by brad johnson and chelsea field. ]
baahubali 2: the conclusion (2017): with rs1, 500 crore - plus in box - office earnings worldwide, the second part of s. s rajamouli’s epic movie, according to film critic baradwaj rangan, “showed that people would still come to theatres if you gave them a spectacle” .
moondram pirai (1982): balu mahendru’s romantic drama has achieved cult status in tamil cinema for its unique amalgamation of high emotional quotient and film - making style. lead performances by kamal haasan and sridevi (also featured in the hindi remake sadma) are the stuff acting school textbooks are made of .
satya (1998): ram gopal verma’s satya could lay claim to being the most influential hindi film of the last two decades. it broke indian cinema out of the romantic gloss of the 1990s, and gave a platform for new talent including anurag kashyap, manoj bajpayee, vishal bhardwaj and saurabh shukla .
film :
noah
( 2014) is a retelling of the biblical story of a man chosen by god and entrusted with a mission as he purges the earth with an apocalyptic flood. character' s background: noah, much like other biblical figures, is from somewhere in ancient middle east. that means it' s unlikely that he was so fair - skinned. actor' s background: russell crowe was born in new zealand and is of mixed - european descent. he wasn' t the only whitewashed character in the film, fellow cast members included jennifer connelly, ray winstone, anthony hopkins and emma watson .
i am 20 (1967): an astonishing short film made by s. n. s. sastry for films division in 1967, i am 20, which interviews those born on independence day in 1947 to know their hopes, ambitions, fears and frustrations, has been rediscovered in recent years and recognized for the innovative little gem it is .
is johar has a whole chapter dedicated to him in one of khushwant singh’s books (i believe “malicious gossip”, but i could be wrong), but it’s tangent to skills as a film - maker / script - writer, and overall, not very flattering. seems like ks was more into the “gossip”, than interested in writing a critique .
dev anand is the ‘evergreen romantic superstar’ of indian cinema. just the mention of his name conjures up images of youthfulness, romance, style, and extremely good looks in the minds of his millions of fans and admirers the world over. after having played the lead actor for more than eight decades in over 110 motion pictures, the awe - inspiring dev anand continues to bestride indian cinema today. he has given a new dimension to that magical state known as stardom. and for his exemplary work he was recently awarded the padma bhushan - - a title awarded to a person of extraordinary talent for his outstanding contribution and / or achievements in his discipline by the president of india .
film :
the king and i
( 1956) is a musical set in siam (present - day thailand) and centered around a british widow who becomes a live - in governess to the king of siam' s children. character' s background: as the king of siam, he is of southeast asian descent. actor' s background: yul brynner was mainly of russian descent .
when this is understood, the symbolic film' s complex fabric makes more sense, especially if interpreted in freudian terms. it is about three needy women (literally' birds') - and a fourth from a younger generation - each flocking around and vying for varying degrees of affection and attention from the sole, emotionally - cold male lead, and the fragile tensions, anxieties and unpredictable relations between them. the attacks are mysteriously related to the mother and son relationship in the film - anger (and fears of abandonment or being left lonely) of the jealous, initially hostile mother come to the surface surface when her bachelor son brings home an attractive young woman. curiously, the first attack has symbolic phallic undertones - it occurs when the man and woman approach toward each other outside the restaurant in the coastal town .
ha ha! feroz had a five minute or so scene where he did some card tricks, flicked a lit cigarette into his mouth and back out again, and then did some shadow boxing. he was having a ball, and looked really really handsome! i was so happily surprised when he showed up—in the film credits at the beginning he’s only listed as “feeroz - guest artist” and i had no idea it would be him .
“he told me to call him uncle walt; we were really close, ” dotrice said. “one time i got sick with a virus and he came to my house and he was making sure i had all the best doctors. he bought me presents. he brought my mom and my sisters over, which he didn’t have to do, all the way from england. … to be honest, i never understood why. i thought ‘why was he so nice? that wasn’t in the contract. ’ seeing ‘saving mr. banks, ’ i realized when walt was eight — and i was eight when i did ‘mary poppins’ — he worked for his dad under horrible circumstances in the snow, in the rain. his dad sounds like a real taskmaster. so i think he had it in his mind that if he was going to employ an eight - year - old girl, that i was going to have this incredible experience. ”
film :
the lone ranger
( 2013) is a film - adaptation of the hit tv series of the same name. the movie was more centered on native american warrior tonto and his recollection of john reid' s, aka the lone ranger, origin story. character' s background: tonto is a native american warrior. in the 1950s tv series, he is portrayed by first nation actor jay silverheels (also pictured above) who in real - life was a member of the mohawk tribe. actor' s background: johnny depp is not member of any first nation tribe, though he told entertainment weekly he has
some native american somewhere down the line
and that it might be cherokee or creek. if the claim is true, the franchise would still have gone from casting an actual first nation actor in the 1950s to one of mostly european - descent in the 2010s .
john leguizamo has made a name for himself on - stage with autobiographical productions & nbsp; like his one - man show turned hbo special ,
ghetto klown .
but he didn' t just do these projects for fun. during an interview at 2015' s sundance film festival, leguizamo said the projects were < a href =
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when she asks for
the little girl' s name
-
her exact name ,
she is told two conflicting names: alice by the one merchandise - enclosed storekeeper, and lois from another unseen proprietor / storekeeper behind more stacks of products. for her to be certain of the name, the postal clerk directs her to the home of the town' s schoolteacher to verify it - describing locations that will become prominent in later portions of the film :
when she is personally affronted by the sarcastic, denigrating remark, he responds ,
i was merely drawing a parallel ,
and explains to the perplexed lady how he knows her name - from a courtroom appearance after a destructive, expensive practical joke. his own
practical joke
was designed to give her a taste of her own medicine - and to put her
on the other end of a gag
[ a foreshadowing of the film' s plot ] :
film :
the good earth
( 1937) is based on the historical novel of the same name and centers on a family of farmers struggling in china. character' s background: the protagonists of the story wang and o - lan are - - you guessed it - - chinese. actor' s background: wang is portrayed by paul muni and o - lan is portrayed by luise rainer. neither were of asian descent. both wore yellowface for their roles .
film :
prince of persia: sands of time
( 2010) is based on the video game franchise that follows the fugitive fictional prince of persia, dastan, on different adventures. character' s background: unsurprisingly, the prince of persia is meant to be persian. persia is actually what most people recognize as present - day iran. actor' s background: ﻿jake gyllenhall is not iranian. he was born in california and is of mixed - european and jewish descent .
film :
a beautiful mind
( 2001) is a movie based on the life and career of brilliant mathematician john nash. character' s background: alicia (born alicia lardé) is an mit student who would later become john' s wife. the real alicia was salvadorian. actress' background: jennifer connelly is not latina and has no latin american roots. the actress is of mixed - european descent. connelly won the academy award for best supporting actress for the role in 2001 .
when he asks to
see
a canary and outstretches his hand, she obliges him, but accidentally releases the bird into the air - a foreshadowing of the unleashing of birds later in the film. melanie' s (and the salesclerk' s) hands are helplessly extended to the ceiling as the bird flies around the store. when the bird lands in an ashtray, mitch covers it with his hat and slips it back into its cage, remarking that she is a pampered bird that is imprisoned :
film :
the mask of fu manchu
( 1932) is based on the book series that follows the schemes of dr. fu manchu, an evil chinese genius. character' s background: dr. fu manchu is a chinese villain. the character is often viewed as the
yellow peril incarnate
who reflected western fears of china. actor' s background: english actor boris karloff is one of many white actors to portray the character. no actor of asian descent has portrayed dr. fu manchu .
hum dono rangeen was restored and colorized using legend film' s proprietary colorization process. the process has consistently been lauded as the the highest quality color conversion technology in the world and has been used extensively on hollywood feature films over the past 10 years. invented by dr. barry sandrew in 2001, it represents the latest iteration in digital colorization technology which he originally invented in 1987. the process uses an unlimited palette of colors that is applied in the most minute detail. color design is created at the pixel level and carried through in the entire feature film. hum dono rangeen was one of the latest colorization projects using the technology and it is considered light years ahead of mugal e azam in the quality of it' s color artistry and overall design. mugal e azam was colorized several years ago using an antiquated and inferior process. the colorization of hum dono rangeen was executed by jagan mohan at goldstone technologies, a technology licensee of legend films under the collaborative eye of legend films engineers and technicians. it lives as the finest example of bollywood colorization that exists today. legend film' s colorization technology has most recently been adapted for the conversion of 2d feature films to 3d. the process was used on
alice in wonderland
, three feature films for dreamworks and it is currently being used to convert four new hollywood feature films for 2011 releases. the 3d process is currently being considered for the conversion of hum dono rangen, which will further enhance the value of this invaluable bollywood classic, giving it new life for future generations of audiences. padma bhushan dev anand
novelist evan hunter based his screenplay upon the 1952 collection of short stories of the same name by daphne du maurier - hitchcock' s third major film based on the author' s works (after jamaica inn (1939) and rebecca (1940) ). in du maurier' s story, the birds were attacking in the english countryside, rather than in a small town north of san francisco. it was shot on location in the port town of bodega bay (north of san francisco) and in san francisco itself .
films :
batman begins
( 2005) and
the dark knight rises
( 2012) are the first and final films in the dark knight trilogy, which center on the dc comics vigilante batman. character' s background: ra' s al ghul is one the biggest and longest - standing villains in the batman universe. he is said to have been born in arabia and is considered to be of arab descent. actor' s background: liam neeson is just one of many white actors to portray the character on film. he is irish .
film :
the 33
( 2015) recounts the true story of the 33 chilean miners who were trapped underground for 69 days. character' s background: maria segovia was the real - life sister of one of the miner' s trapped underground. above ground she was known for her efforts with
campo esperanza ,
a makeshift tent community in the atacama desert where family members of the miners lived to stay close to their relatives. she is chilean, with a dark brown complexion. actress' background: juliette binoche is a french actress, whose complexion is much fairer compared to the real maria' s complexion.
mr. india is a 1961 film about a naive unemployed youth who is mistaken for a look-alike gangster . i.s. johar stars as gullu , and geeta bali portrays miss bambi . 
mr. india is a 1961 film about a naive unemployed youth who is mistaken for a look-alike gangster. i.s. johar stars as gullu, and geeta bali portrays miss bambi.
mr. india is a 1961 film about a naive unemployed youth who is mistaken for a look-alike gangster. i.s. johar stars as gullu, and geeta bali portrays miss bambi.