By Aprajita Mishra The Music Industry Operates Independent of the Films! We can trace it back to 2002, when Bohemia (Regarded as the first ever Punjabi rapper) released his first ever album “Vich Pardesan De“. Bohemia’s independent debut album, reached the Top 10 […]
DD Punjabi (Punjabi: ਡੀ.ਡੀ. ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) is a state-owned Punjabi language TV channel, started in 1998, which is produced and telecasted from Doordarshan Kendra Jalandhar in Indian Punjab. DD Punjabi Channel was launched in 1998, and it became a 24-hour service […]
Raj Kapoor in Awara (1951) Ishtiaq Ahmed on the ties that connect Prithviraj Kapoor and Raj Kapoor to a small town in Pakistani Punjab One day in 1986, I had gone to rent video-films from the Bhatti Brothers in our […]
Lyrical genius Raja Mehdi Ali joined forces with musical maestro Madan Mohan to produce some memorable songs By Ishtiaq Ahmed In this instalment of my series on the Punjabi contribution to cinema, we highlight the achievements of two Punjabis belonging […]
An illustration of the legendary Hussaini Brahmins at Karbala By Ishtiaq Ahmed In this instalment of my series of articles, we will discuss two outstanding personalities in cinema, hailing from pre-Partition northern Punjab. One is the longest living Punjabi now […]
By Ishtiaq Ahmed In I.S. Johar’s 1954 film ‘Nastik’, the protagonist witnesses the horrific violence of 1947 and begins to lose his faith in the Divine As we proceed further in exploring the contribution of Punjabis to cinema, my friend […]
Actor Shyam died a very young man, at 31 By Ishtiaq Ahmed Two towering personalities of the Bombay film industry hailed from Rawalpindi: Shyam and Balraj Sahni, Others from Rawalpindi who contributed to the Calcutta, Bombay and Lahore film industries […]
Author and B. R. Chopra in Mumbai, 1997 By Ishtiaq Ahmed We resume the series on the Punjabi contribution to cinema with the presentation of directors and filmmakers from Punjab, especially Lahore, who made a big name for themselves […]
Majrooh Sultanpuri By Ishtiaq Ahmed With their skill in Urdu, Punjabi story and script writers were prominent in Calcutta and Bombay and, of course, Lahore. We have already discussed in previous articles the genius of Kidar Sharma (born Narowal […]
Noor Jehan, the queen of melody By Ishtiaq Ahmed It would not be wrong to say that without the singer doing justice to the tune composed by the music director and written by the lyricist, a song rarely catches the […]
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