Conversations Over Chai

Romance and Shammi Kapoor go hand in hand. Once he broke through to the big league with Tumsa Nahin Dekha, Shammi didn’t look back. It help...

When listing songs for my post on Rafi’s love songs , I found that my initial list had so many songs picturised on Shammi Kapoor. I had to ...

There’s a romance associated with train journeys. There’s a certain nostalgia for the days of my youth when we travelled regularly by train,...

The Waltz (Camille Claudel) Source: Wikipedia I have been in a bit of a bind lately, as is evidenced by the neglect of my blog. So, when ...

01.10.1919 - 24-05.2000 My love for poetry, specifically Hindi poetry, was influenced by the Karnataka SSC Board, which had decided to ma...

I was mindlessly trawling YouTube to take my mind off the spectre of a global pandemic, when I came across this song from Sarfarosh . It ...

The late Shammi Kapoor loved to narrate an anecdote of how incensed he was with director Shakti Samanta because the latter had recorde...

Literature and cinema are filled with tales of lookalike twins - so identical in their looks and even their mannerisms that their nearest ...

Photo credit: Indianexpress.com Three years ago, I wrote an unexpected (and posthumous) tribute to Shammi Kapoor, a man who, in dark ...

No, I do not mean the songs are masquerading as something else (what?); it's just that it made for a catchy title. On the other ha...

Directed by: Shakti Samanta Music: Ravi Starring: Shammi Kapoor, Shakila, Helen,  Kanu Roy, Madan Puri, Shetty Idle question No.1: W...

Shamsher Raj Kapoor 21-10-1931 - 14-08-2011 I h ad meant to do this post some time, but never thought that I would be writing it ...

Now comes a far more difficult, though still delightful task. Sifting through Helen's dance numbers to separate the 'night-club...