Samna / Encounter
Language : Marathi (the film submission form doesn’t list this language. Could someone possibly add it?)
Dir : Jabbar Patel
Cast : Mohan Agashe, Shreeram Lagoo, Nilu Phule, Smita Patil
India 1974
Nominated for the 25th Berlin International Film Festival
Waheeda Rehman (Hindi: वहीदा रहमान), born on 14 May 1936 is a famous Indian film actress who appears in Bollywood movies, most notably C.I.D. (1956) and Guru Dutt classics such as Pyaasa (1957), Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) and Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962).
One of the most prominent actresses of the golden era, Waheeda Rehman was born into a traditional Muslim family in Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu, India. She and her sister learnt Bharatnatyam at Mumbai’s Sri Rajarajeswari Bharata Natya Kala Mandir, where Guru T. K. Mahalingam Pillai, doyen among nattuvanars taught and performed on stage together. Her father, who was a District Commissioner, died while she still in her teens.
Many people believe that Rehman was born in Hyderabad. “It’s a long story,” she says, “When I was in Chennai, I did three to four Telugu movies. In the first one, Rojulu Maraayi, I did only a folk dance number. However, it went on to become a hit! I was in Hyderabad celebrating its success and Guru Dutt happened to be there. He was on a lookout for new faces and heard that I could speak in Urdu. It is because he spotted me in Hyderabad that people assume I was born there.”
Her dream was to become a doctor but, due to circumstances and illness, she abandoned this goal. Instead helped by her supportive parents, she hit the silver screen with the Telugu film Jayasimha (1955), followed by Rojulu Marayi (1955).
Waheeda Rehman was discovered by Guru Dutt in a film and was brought to Bombay (now Mumbai) and cast as a vamp in his production C.I.D. (1956), directed by Raj Khosla. A few years after joining the Hindi film industry, she lost her mother. After the success of C.I.D., Dutt gave her a leading role in Pyaasa (1957). Their next venture together, Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959), depicted the story of a successful director’s decline after he falls for his leading lady. Dutt’s existing marriage and her film successes with other directors caused them to drift apart personally and professionally, although they continued to work together into the 1960s Chaudhvin Ka Chand. She completed Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962) under some strain. They broke away from each other after the film’s indifferent reception at the Berlin Film Festival in 1963. Soon afterward, Guru Dutt died on 10 October 1964 in Mumbai reportedly from an overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol. Rahman was cast as “Gulabi” in Satyajit Ray’s Bengali film Abhijan in 1962.
Her career continued throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. She won the Filmfare Best Actress Award for her roles in Guide (1965), where she hit the peak of her career and Neel Kamal (1968), but despite excellent offbeat roles in subsequent films, including a National award winning performance in Reshma Aur Shera (1971), some of the films failed at the box office. At around this time, Kamaljit who starred opposite her in Shagun (1964) proposed. She accepted and they were married on 27 April 1974. After her marriage, she shifted to a farmhouse in Bangalore. She bore two children named Sohail and Kashvi. After her appearance in Lamhe (1991) she retired from the film industry for 12 years. On 21 November 2000, her husband died following a prolonged illness. She moved back to her ocean view bungalow in Bandra, Bombay where she lives currently.
In recent years she made a comeback playing elderly mother and grandmother roles in Om Jai Jagadish (2002), Water (2005) and Rang De Basanti (2006) and Delhi 6 (2009) which were all critically acclaimed.
In October 2004, a Waheeda Rehman film retrospective was held at the Seattle Art Museum and the University of Washington where Waheeda participated in spirited panel and audience discussions on her most memorable films — Pyaasa, Teesri Kasam and Guide — although her most successful film is still considered to be Khamoshi, with costar Rajesh Khanna.
Johnny Walker (15 May 1923 – 29 July 2003) is the screen name of an Indian movie comedian, who acted in over 300 movies. He was born as Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi in Indore, India, the son of a mill worker. The family shifted to Mumbai (Bombay) when the textile mill his father worked in closed. Looking after his 15-member family was tough for the father; five of the family members died young. Badruddin tried his hand at different occupations, including the job of a conductor in Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (B.E.S.T) buses. (He was posted mainly at Dadar bus depot, but worked on several routes.)
While issuing tickets as a B.E.S.T. bus conductor, Badruddin used to entertain passengers aboard with some antics. These antics caught the attention of actor and script-writer Balraj Sahni in 1950 while he was once traveling in a B.E.S.T. bus on which Badruddin, then 27, was working as a conductor. Sahni was penning at that time the script for the movie, Baazi (1951), and introduced Badruddin to Guru Dutt as a candidate for the role of a comedian. Badruddin’s screen test consisted of acting as a drunk, and he did it so well that Guru Dutt gave him the screen name, “Johnny Walker”, after the famous Scotch whisky brand. (Walker was always a teetotaler.) Later Johnny was cast as the hero in a movie, Johnny-Walker (1957), which was named after himself.
He had a close friendship with Guru Dutt, who would often change scripts of his movies to accommodate a role for Johnny. The untimely death of Guru Dutt in 1964 deeply impacted him.
During the 1970s through the ‘90s, he had a few small roles in movies. His role in Anand showed that he could excel in a serious role even if it was for only a few minutes. His last performance was in actor/director Kamal Hasan’s Chachi 420 in 1998; he had performed at the request of poet/director/writer Gulzar who had scripted that movie.He also starred in the Punjabi film Teri meri ek jindari.
Johnny Walker married Noor (short for Noorjehan), a sister of Shakila (actress). He met Noor in 1955 on the sets of Guru Dutt’s film Mr. and Mrs. 55. Johnny and Noor had three daughters: Kausar, Tasneem, and Firdaus; and three sons: Nazim, Kazim, and Nasir. Nasir is a well-known movie and TV actor.
Johnny Walker was a humble man, who kept a low profile even at the peak of his career.
John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk
Miles Davis
Charles Mingus
Lee Morgan
Duke Ellington Band
Art Tatum
Horace Silver
Eric Dolphy
Bill Evans
Cannonball Adderley
Lester Young
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Wes Montgomery
Grant Green
Paul Chambers
I haven’t heard those artists. The only Indian jazz fusion I have heard is Shakti with McLaughlin and Prasanna. I will definately try your recommendations. I mainly listen to classic jazz though.
Prasanna is a carnatic jazz guitarist and has no relation to the band Shakti with John McLaughlin. I haven’t been able to digest Andrew Hill yet but I will definately try Abbasi.
Hehe…I will check out both of them. The thing is that I haven’t been able to digest avant garde pianists like Andrew Hill and Cecil Taylor yet so anything synonymous to their music is scary :P
You can start Prasanna with Electric Ganesha Land though it is more carnatic rock than jazz. Try out some of his works with Victor Wooten for more of jazz fusion.
btw talking about jazz fusion, I wonder if there are any Grateful Dead fans here. Jerry Garcia had a very boppy style of playing his solos which I simply adore.
Try their live albums Europe 72, Skull and Roses, Live or Dead to get a feel of the extended solos.
Talking about jazz themes, cant think of a better soundtrack than Anatomy of a Murder by Duke Ellington.
Well…to be frank with you even I watched the movie for the soundtrack but its a lovely film as well. James Stewart even sits beside Ellington in the movie possibly hoping that he would be blessed by the genius :P
This thread is a good place for me to get some recommendations on contemporary jazz. First of all is there enough innovation that is taking place in the genre since I believe that the foundation of jazz is the innovation that took place over the years. Also are there enough exciting performers who abide by this genre? Need some enlightenment on this topic.
Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Cercle Rouge which I watched on my DVD player. I was stunned by the sincerity and sheer meticulousness of the film maker. After this experience I just couldn’t help but take movies seriously!
Movies on Directors over 2 years ago
I would like people to list out their favorite films on Directors (Film and Theater).
I will mention a few of the movies that I have seen :
1>Eight and a Half
2>Paper Flowers
3>Synecdoche, New York
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Movies on Directors over 2 years ago
Thanks for your inputs guys, really appreciate it. I hope to watch some of these.
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RIP Hideko Takamine over 2 years ago
R.i.P. One of the the most gorgeous actresses ever.
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Film Database Submission January 2011 over 2 years ago
BAAZI / A GAME OF CHANCE
Dir : Guru Dutt
Music : S.D. Burman
India 1951
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C.I.D
Dir : Raj Khosla
Produced by : Guru Dutt
Music : O.P. Nayyar
India 1956
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Khamoshi / Silence
Dir: Asit Sen
Music : Hemant Kumar
India 1969
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Jagte Raho / Stay Awake
Dir : Amit Mitra, Sombhu Mitra
Produced by : Raj Kapoor
Music : Salil Choudhury
India 1956
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Film Database Submission January 2011 over 2 years ago
Ek Ruka Hua Faisla/ A Pending Verdict
Dir: Basu Chatterjee
India 1986
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Film Database Submission January 2011 over 2 years ago
Samna / Encounter
Language : Marathi (the film submission form doesn’t list this language. Could someone possibly add it?)
Dir : Jabbar Patel
Cast : Mohan Agashe, Shreeram Lagoo, Nilu Phule, Smita Patil
India 1974
Nominated for the 25th Berlin International Film Festival
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Film Database Submission January 2011 over 2 years ago
Festival Express
Dir : Bob Smeaton, Frank Cvitanovich
Cast: Janis Joplin, The Band, Buddy Guy, Grateful Dead.
2003
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Film Database Submission January 2011 over 2 years ago
Festival Express
Dir : Bob Smeaton, Frank Cvitanovich
Cast: Janis Joplin, The Band, Buddy Guy, Grateful Dead.
2003
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Film Database Submission January 2011 over 2 years ago
Chaudhvin Ka Chand / The Full Moon
Dir: M. Sadiq
Prod : Guru Dutt
Cast : Guru Dutt, Rehman, Waheeda Rehman, Johnny Walker
India 1960
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Film Database Submission January 2011 over 2 years ago
Aar Paar / This or That
Dir: Guru Dutt
India 1954
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The Auteurs Film & Cast Member Database over 2 years ago
Waheeda Rehman
Cast
Waheeda Rehman (Hindi: वहीदा रहमान), born on 14 May 1936 is a famous Indian film actress who appears in Bollywood movies, most notably C.I.D. (1956) and Guru Dutt classics such as Pyaasa (1957), Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) and Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962).
One of the most prominent actresses of the golden era, Waheeda Rehman was born into a traditional Muslim family in Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu, India. She and her sister learnt Bharatnatyam at Mumbai’s Sri Rajarajeswari Bharata Natya Kala Mandir, where Guru T. K. Mahalingam Pillai, doyen among nattuvanars taught and performed on stage together. Her father, who was a District Commissioner, died while she still in her teens.
Many people believe that Rehman was born in Hyderabad. “It’s a long story,” she says, “When I was in Chennai, I did three to four Telugu movies. In the first one, Rojulu Maraayi, I did only a folk dance number. However, it went on to become a hit! I was in Hyderabad celebrating its success and Guru Dutt happened to be there. He was on a lookout for new faces and heard that I could speak in Urdu. It is because he spotted me in Hyderabad that people assume I was born there.”
Her dream was to become a doctor but, due to circumstances and illness, she abandoned this goal. Instead helped by her supportive parents, she hit the silver screen with the Telugu film Jayasimha (1955), followed by Rojulu Marayi (1955).
Waheeda Rehman was discovered by Guru Dutt in a film and was brought to Bombay (now Mumbai) and cast as a vamp in his production C.I.D. (1956), directed by Raj Khosla. A few years after joining the Hindi film industry, she lost her mother. After the success of C.I.D., Dutt gave her a leading role in Pyaasa (1957). Their next venture together, Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959), depicted the story of a successful director’s decline after he falls for his leading lady. Dutt’s existing marriage and her film successes with other directors caused them to drift apart personally and professionally, although they continued to work together into the 1960s Chaudhvin Ka Chand. She completed Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962) under some strain. They broke away from each other after the film’s indifferent reception at the Berlin Film Festival in 1963. Soon afterward, Guru Dutt died on 10 October 1964 in Mumbai reportedly from an overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol. Rahman was cast as “Gulabi” in Satyajit Ray’s Bengali film Abhijan in 1962.
Her career continued throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. She won the Filmfare Best Actress Award for her roles in Guide (1965), where she hit the peak of her career and Neel Kamal (1968), but despite excellent offbeat roles in subsequent films, including a National award winning performance in Reshma Aur Shera (1971), some of the films failed at the box office. At around this time, Kamaljit who starred opposite her in Shagun (1964) proposed. She accepted and they were married on 27 April 1974. After her marriage, she shifted to a farmhouse in Bangalore. She bore two children named Sohail and Kashvi. After her appearance in Lamhe (1991) she retired from the film industry for 12 years. On 21 November 2000, her husband died following a prolonged illness. She moved back to her ocean view bungalow in Bandra, Bombay where she lives currently.
In recent years she made a comeback playing elderly mother and grandmother roles in Om Jai Jagadish (2002), Water (2005) and Rang De Basanti (2006) and Delhi 6 (2009) which were all critically acclaimed.
In October 2004, a Waheeda Rehman film retrospective was held at the Seattle Art Museum and the University of Washington where Waheeda participated in spirited panel and audience discussions on her most memorable films — Pyaasa, Teesri Kasam and Guide — although her most successful film is still considered to be Khamoshi, with costar Rajesh Khanna.
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The Auteurs Film & Cast Member Database over 2 years ago
Johnny Walker
Cast
Johnny Walker (15 May 1923 – 29 July 2003) is the screen name of an Indian movie comedian, who acted in over 300 movies. He was born as Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi in Indore, India, the son of a mill worker. The family shifted to Mumbai (Bombay) when the textile mill his father worked in closed. Looking after his 15-member family was tough for the father; five of the family members died young. Badruddin tried his hand at different occupations, including the job of a conductor in Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (B.E.S.T) buses. (He was posted mainly at Dadar bus depot, but worked on several routes.)
While issuing tickets as a B.E.S.T. bus conductor, Badruddin used to entertain passengers aboard with some antics. These antics caught the attention of actor and script-writer Balraj Sahni in 1950 while he was once traveling in a B.E.S.T. bus on which Badruddin, then 27, was working as a conductor. Sahni was penning at that time the script for the movie, Baazi (1951), and introduced Badruddin to Guru Dutt as a candidate for the role of a comedian. Badruddin’s screen test consisted of acting as a drunk, and he did it so well that Guru Dutt gave him the screen name, “Johnny Walker”, after the famous Scotch whisky brand. (Walker was always a teetotaler.) Later Johnny was cast as the hero in a movie, Johnny-Walker (1957), which was named after himself.
He had a close friendship with Guru Dutt, who would often change scripts of his movies to accommodate a role for Johnny. The untimely death of Guru Dutt in 1964 deeply impacted him.
During the 1970s through the ‘90s, he had a few small roles in movies. His role in Anand showed that he could excel in a serious role even if it was for only a few minutes. His last performance was in actor/director Kamal Hasan’s Chachi 420 in 1998; he had performed at the request of poet/director/writer Gulzar who had scripted that movie.He also starred in the Punjabi film Teri meri ek jindari.
Johnny Walker married Noor (short for Noorjehan), a sister of Shakila (actress). He met Noor in 1955 on the sets of Guru Dutt’s film Mr. and Mrs. 55. Johnny and Noor had three daughters: Kausar, Tasneem, and Firdaus; and three sons: Nazim, Kazim, and Nasir. Nasir is a well-known movie and TV actor.
Johnny Walker was a humble man, who kept a low profile even at the peak of his career.
wikipedia.org
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Jazz Anyone? over 2 years ago
Greetings everyone! Good see fellow jazz fans here :)
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Jazz Anyone? over 2 years ago
Some of my favorite artists are…
John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk
Miles Davis
Charles Mingus
Lee Morgan
Duke Ellington Band
Art Tatum
Horace Silver
Eric Dolphy
Bill Evans
Cannonball Adderley
Lester Young
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Wes Montgomery
Grant Green
Paul Chambers
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Jazz Anyone? over 2 years ago
@Jazzaloha
Hey! I am a big Dolphy fan. I love his solo albums as well as his contributions on albums by Booker Little, Coltrane and Oliver Nelson
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Jazz Anyone? over 2 years ago
I haven’t heard those artists. The only Indian jazz fusion I have heard is Shakti with McLaughlin and Prasanna. I will definately try your recommendations. I mainly listen to classic jazz though.
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Jazz Anyone? over 2 years ago
Prasanna is a carnatic jazz guitarist and has no relation to the band Shakti with John McLaughlin. I haven’t been able to digest Andrew Hill yet but I will definately try Abbasi.
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Jazz Anyone? over 2 years ago
@Jazzaloha
Hehe…I will check out both of them. The thing is that I haven’t been able to digest avant garde pianists like Andrew Hill and Cecil Taylor yet so anything synonymous to their music is scary :P
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Jazz Anyone? over 2 years ago
Also…you must try out Shakti if you haven’t. Try the album Natural Elements.
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Jazz Anyone? over 2 years ago
You can start Prasanna with Electric Ganesha Land though it is more carnatic rock than jazz. Try out some of his works with Victor Wooten for more of jazz fusion.
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Jazz Anyone? over 2 years ago
I haven’t heard any album just some songs on youtube. You will have to google to find out.
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Jazz Anyone? over 2 years ago
btw talking about jazz fusion, I wonder if there are any Grateful Dead fans here. Jerry Garcia had a very boppy style of playing his solos which I simply adore.
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Jazz Anyone? over 2 years ago
Try their live albums Europe 72, Skull and Roses, Live or Dead to get a feel of the extended solos.
Talking about jazz themes, cant think of a better soundtrack than Anatomy of a Murder by Duke Ellington.
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Jazz Anyone? over 2 years ago
Well…to be frank with you even I watched the movie for the soundtrack but its a lovely film as well. James Stewart even sits beside Ellington in the movie possibly hoping that he would be blessed by the genius :P
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Jazz Anyone? over 2 years ago
This thread is a good place for me to get some recommendations on contemporary jazz. First of all is there enough innovation that is taking place in the genre since I believe that the foundation of jazz is the innovation that took place over the years. Also are there enough exciting performers who abide by this genre? Need some enlightenment on this topic.
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Jazz Anyone? over 2 years ago
I am looking for recommendations over the last two decades(90’s and 2000’s)
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The first movie that made you love movies over 2 years ago
Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Cercle Rouge which I watched on my DVD player. I was stunned by the sincerity and sheer meticulousness of the film maker. After this experience I just couldn’t help but take movies seriously!
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