Veteran actor Deb Mukherjee, father of director Ayan Mukerji, has passed away at 83. He had been feeling unwell for the past couple of months. Deb’s spokesperson confirmed the news to Zoom that the actor died due to age-related ailments on Friday morning.
Dev Anand was forever on our TV screens. My mother and aunts were huge fans. But my mother also had bundles of Filmfare magazines, and large black discs of gramophones with beautiful covers of Indian actors and actresses.
Was 1957 (exactly 60 years ago) the greatest year in Bollywood? When critics and cinema lovers talk about the Golden Age of Bollywood, they unfailingly point to the 1950s. You ought to merely look at the number of library classics of that year to realise 1957’s extraordinary contribution in making the 1950s a watershed decade in Hindi cinema. Many of the Bollywood classics we fondly and casually throw into our day to day conversations and pop culture references come from that year.
