Flashback: Why Amar Prem is one of Hindi cinema's most enduring classics
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Flashback: Why Amar Prem is one of Hindi cinema's most enduring classics

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If I had to pick one Hindi film as my all-time favourite it would have to be Shakti Samanta’s Amar Prem. From its opening montage of a young rustic girl watching her callous husband bring home another wife, to the dying moments when the woman, now in her twilight years, is taken away to the relative comfort of her foster son’s home as the festivities of Durga Puja break out on the streets of Kolkata… Amar Prem is a glorious homage to that favourite Bollywood archetype: the golden-hearted prostitute. At a time when Rajesh Khanna after the dream launch in Shakti’s Aradhana two years earlier, was the movie monarch the director cast Khanna as the third lead of Amar Prem. Shakti Samanta’s son Ashim speaks on Amar Prem: “My two all-time favourite films are Amar Prem and Anand.

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Amar Prem at 50: Film that was cut out for Sharmila Tagore and yet Rajesh Khanna went out of way to be part of it
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Amar Prem at 50: Film that was cut out for Sharmila Tagore and yet Rajesh Khanna went out of way to be part of it

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There is a strange connection between the French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine and Shakti Samanta’s Amar Prem, which turns fifty this year. For the film that gave the superstar his trademark line, “Pushpa, I hate tears”, Khanna nearly didn’t feature in Amar Prem as Samanta felt that Khanna’s busy schedule might not allow him to play. Samanta wasn’t entirely …

Flashback | Sharmila Tagore opens up on success after marriage: 'I was never a victim of stardom'
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Flashback | Sharmila Tagore opens up on success after marriage: 'I was never a victim of stardom'

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“I think it is believed that a certain section of the audience doesn’t like to see an actress when she’s married. A favourite of mine, Sharmila Tagore ruled millions of hearts with her glamour and talent in the films of Satyajit Ray ’s Apur Sansar and Devi, then Shakti Samanta’a Aradhana and Amar Prem, and Basu Bhattacharya’s Aavishkar and Grihapravesh. …

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