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#MothersDay: Durga Khote, Leela Chitnis, Sulochana, Nirupa Roy.

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Sadhna (1958) | dir. B. R. Chopra

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Time for another round of pre-partition posters

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Leela Chitnis plays an “elegant thief dressed in male costume” (Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema) in the lost Gentleman Daku (1937)

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INDIES TOP 136 ACTORS & ACTRESSES OF I-N-D-I-A-N  CINEMA !

NOTE: Encompasses all traditional Indian film industries.

NOTE: Again, due to a difference of 20 spots btwn last name herein & next one eligible (& ever exponentially increasing with every subsequent candidate btw), ethics dictated the possibility of no more than the 136 cut-off number arrived at, for this most hallowed of Indian film honor lists.

Position  

Name

Eg. of Work                                                                            

1

Rajesh Khanna

Anand

2

Ashok Kumar

Mahal

3

Dilip Kumar

Gunga Jumna

4

Dev Anand

Kala Bazar

5

Meena Kumari

Kaajal

6

Suchitra Sen

Aandhi

7

Shashi Kapoor

Deewaar

8

Shammi Kapoor

Vidhaata

9

Uttam Kumar

Chiriyakhana

10

Prem Nazir

Pancha Thanthram

11

Madhavi Mukherjee

Diba Ratrir Kabya

12

N.T. Rama Rao

Daana Veera Soora Karna

13

Rajendra Kumar Tuli

Jurrat

14

Madhubala

Mughal-E-Azam

15

Vanisri

Kathanayika Molla

16

Sowcar Janaki

Iru Kodugal

17

C.R. Vijayakumari

Kadhal Sadugudu

18

Rajasulochana

Piya Milan

19

Varalakshmi S.

Chakravarthi Thirumagal

20

T.R. Rajakumari

Thangamalai Rahasyam

21

Pandari Bai

Namma Makkalu

22

Sujatha

Guppedu Manasu

23

Jayamala

Purana Purush

24

Sharada

Samaj Ko Badal Dalo

25

Jayabharathi

Marupakkam

26

Arathi

Dharmasere

27

Urvashi

Soorarai Pottru

28

K.R. Savithri

Yaathra

29

Dharmendra

Sholay

30

K.P.A.C. Lalitha

Godfather

31

Sreeleela

PellisandaD

32

Aachi Manorama

Puthiya Pathai

33

Usharani

Hitler

34

Shanvi Srivastava

Tarak

35

Shreeram Lagoo

Gharaonda

36

Kavita Srinivasan

P.S. Zindagi

37

Nargis

Mother India

38

Kamini Kaushal

Kabir Singh

39

Nutan

Seema

40

Mala Sinha

Jahan Ara

41

Waheeda Rehman

Guide

42

Mumtaz Askari

Khilona

43

Rekha

Koi... Mil Gaya

44

Rakhee Gulzar

Daag: A Poem of Love

45

Ruby Mayer

Talash

46

Rose

Hamari Betiyan

47

Anita Guha

Kan Kan Men Bhagwan

48

Bibbo

Manmohan

49

Nimmi

Arpan

50

Nalini Jaywant

Kala Pani

51

Bina Rai

Taj Mahal

52

Sushila Devi

Kalidas

53

Chandraprabha

Jawani Ki Hawa

54

Sushila

Hatimtai

55

Gulab

Janjir Ne Jankare

56

Paro

Ustad 420

57

Madhuri

Thokar

58

Sakina

Sukanya Savitri

59

Vanamala

Parbat Pe Apna Dera

60

Mandakini Phalke

Kaliya Mardan

61

Sabita Devi

Grama Kanya

62

Ranjana

Didi

63

Meera

Aurat

64

Sardar Akhtar

Hulchul

65

Umasashi

Anath Ashram

66

Mohini

Anun Naam Te Bairi

67

Maya Banerjee

Seva Samaj

68

Nanda Karnataki

Mohabbat Isko Kahete Hain

69

Indrani Mukherjee

Bharat Milap

70

Ansuya

Delhi Ka Thug

71

Miss Feroze

Bharat Ka Lal

72

Swaroop Rani

Kamroo Desh Ki Kamini

73

Chand Usmani

Pehchan

74

Miss Devangana

Bharat Ka Lal

75

Sumitra Devi

Raja Harishchandra

76

Kanan Devi

Haar Jeet

77

Sophia

Neel Kamal

78

Sushilabala

Bilet Ferat

79

Patience Cooper

Nala Damayanti

80

Rattan Bai

Bhikharan

81

Gohar K. Mamajiwala

Akeli Mat Jaiyo

82

Rani Bala

Hasrat

83

Sharifa

Shirin Farhad

84

Bimla Kumari

Baghban

85

Pramila

Bhikharan

86

Snehprabha

Khilona

87

Asha Parekh

Sajan

88

Sulakshana Pandit

Sankalp

89

Moti

Kulin Kanta

90

Laxmi

Radha Krishna

91

Chanda

Suhaag

92

Leela Chitnis

Kangan

93

Zubeida

Heer Ranjha

94

Jehanara Kajjan

Shirin Farhad

95

Hansa Wadkar

Nav Jeevan

96

Moushumi Chatterjee

Bollywood/Hollywood

97

Baby Mayuri

Lal-e-Yaman

98

Lola

The Arcadians

99

Sultana

Bhola Shikar

100

Balraj Sahni

Baazi

101

Tripti Mitra

Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo

102

Gemini Ganesan

Naan Avanillai

103

Shivaji Ganesan

Deiva Magan

104

M.G. Ramachandran

Kudiyiruntha Koyil

105

Rati Agnihotri

Ek Duuje Ke Liye

106

Chandini

Celluloid

107

Jaishankar

Nilagiri Express

108

Charan Raj

Athadu

109

Bhagyaraj

Oru Kai Osai

110

Pallavi

Urimai Geetham 1988

111

Lakshmi

Chattakkari

112

Anil Chatterjee

Sagina Mahato

113

Subhendu Chatterjee

Aranyer Din Ratri

114

Anjana Bhowmik

Diba Ratrir Kabya

115

Pradeep Kumar

Do Dilon Ki Dastaan

116

Kamal Mitra

Parineeta

117

Biswajeet Chatterjee

Do Dil

118

Bobita

Poka Makorer Ghar Bosoti

119

Sandhya

Navrang

120

Savitri Chatterjee

Kal Tumi Aleya

121

Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre

Do Ankhen Barah Haath

122

Khatun

Pagal

123

Ravichandran

Majunu

124

R. Muthuraman

Karnan

125

Suryakant

Irsha

126

Shanta Apte

Duniya Na Mane

127

Kishore Kumar

Sholay

128

Santosh Dutta

Teen Kanya

129

Sathyaraj

Bãhubali: The Beginning

130

Lily Chakravarty

Sanjhbati

131

Dilip Roy

Amrita Kumbher Sandhaney

132

Varada Jishin

Vasthavam

133

Sundari Nirada

Barer Bazar

134

Master Vinayak

Brahmachari

135

Khurshid Begum

Tansen

136

Rituparna Sengupta

Ahaa Re

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Tera Mera Pyar Amar | Asli Naqli (1963) | Dev Anand, Sadhana | Lata Mangeshkar | Evergreen Songs

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Tera Mera Pyar Amar | Asli Naqli (1963) | Dev Anand, Sadhana | Lata Mangeshkar | Evergreen Songs

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Vote for Devika Rani, one of the pioneering ladies of Indian cinema, who defied so many social conventions of her time. In an era when ladies from respectable families in India didn't opt for a career on the screen, she boldly decided to be a film star.

She's called the First Lady of Indian cinema for a reason!

I mean just look at how stunning she looks. A true Indian beauty of the era. Those eyes and 30s eyebrow game!!!

She's serving some serious looks in every film she's been in.

Just look how radiant and stunning she looks in this shot below from Nirmala (1938).

Also, she holds the record for the longest kiss in Bollywood from Karma (1933). That's a pretty serious record considering it stands even today.

Here's she looking like a dream on celluloid in a still from Nirmala.

Please do not let this incredible woman lose!

This part's for the facts lovers: She co-founded one of the best studios of the era, Bombay Talkies, that made some of the best social films of 1930s Hindi cinema. She acted, produced, designed sets, designed costumes, did hair and make up and even sang and danced on screen. She even mentored and introduced new stars through the Bombay Talkies banner, including big names like Dilip Kumar, Madhubala, Ashok Kumar and propelled existing stars like Leela Chitnis to the peak of stardom. Bombay Talkied introduced Saraswati Devi, one of the first female music directors in Indian cinema.

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Deborah Kerr (Bonjour Tristesse, An Affair to Remember, The King and I)— For several decades she held the record for most Oscar nominations without a win (6 in total), and she was a prolific leading lady throughout the 40s and 50s. She's best known today for the romance An Affair to Remember with Cary Grant, and as the governess in The King and I. Many people have this erroneous perception of her as extremely prim, proper, and virginal, but this could not be further from the truth. When she first came to Hollywood under MGM she was typecast into boring decorative roles, but broke sexual boundaries for herself and Hollywood generally in From Here to Eternity, when she made out (horizontally!) with Burt Lancaster (on top of him!) in the famous Beach Scene. She went on to play many sexually conflicted women, a character type that would define most of her post- Eternity work. She continued to break Hays Code boundaries with Tea and Sympathy, which addresses homosexuality/homophobia head-on, and even did a topless scene in The Gypsy Moths 1969!! One of the only classic stars to do so. She deserves a more nuanced and frankly a hotter legacy than she currently has!!!

Devika Rani (Achhut Kanya)—She was grandniece of Rabindranath Tagore (laureate). She was sent to boarding school in England at age nine and grew up there. After completing her schooling, she joined the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and the Royal Academy of Music to study acting and music, at a time when aristocratic women did not enter showbiz. She studied filmmaking in Berlin. It is well known that she underwent training at the UFA Studios in the art and technique of acting under Eric Pommer, and other aspects of film production including costume and set designing and make-up, under eminent directors like GW Pabst, Fritz Lang, Emil Jannings and Josef von Sternberg. She is also reported to have worked with Marlene Dietrich. She had a multi-faceted personality and took on many responsibilities of film production at Bombay Talkies, a studio that she co-founded with Himanshu Rai in Mumbai in 1934. She often took care of hair and make up, supervised set design and editing, scouted for new talent and mentored them. She was the face of Bombay Talkies, and also the reason behind the political and financial backing the studio received, at a time when even women from red light districts refused to work as actresses. She was the first recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, when it was instituted in 1970.

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Deborah Kerr:

I think she was one of my first crushes before I realised I was bi in The King and I when I watched it as a kid honestly. The kissing scene in From Here to Eternity is iconic for a reason. Actually tried to learn the accents for the characters she was playing if they weren't English which is more than pretty much anyone else was doing then. Played very restrained characters who frequently seemed to be desperate not to be so restrained. Did horror movies without venturing into hagsploitation tropes. Gave Marni Nixon the credit she deserved for her share of the singing in The King and I.

Anne Larsen is a peak late 1950s bisexual with big MILF energy. Have you seen the behind the scenes pics of her wearing a suit?? Have you????? Vote Deb as Anne Larsen.

Nominated for an Oscar six (6) times and never won, but besides her having actual talent (hot), and besides her looking Like That (very hot, also beautiful), she was always playing women who are, like, crazy repressed. Which makes it fun and easy for me to read these characters as queer. Icon!!!! You know what's hot? Playing ambiguously gay in vintage Hollywood.

Her face and talent and body, yes, ofc, duh. But also!!! Her HANDS!!!! I may be but a simple lesbian, but she is the best hactor (hand actor) that ever lived and that's HOT! For propriety's sake I feel I must redact a large portion of my commentary on this subject. Anyway. She's hot in her most famous roles (mentioned above), and also some of her sexiest hacting is on display in An Affair to Remember (her hand on the bannister when Cary Grant kisses her off-screen??? HELLO???), Tea and Sympathy (when she's trying to persuade Tom not to go out and she keeps flexing her hands like she wants to reach out to him but can't??? ALLY BEHAVIOR! WE STAN!), and The Innocents (which opens and closes with extended shots of her hands bc director Jack Clayton was also an ally and he did that for ME). Much of her appeal also lies in the fact that she often played deeply repressed characters and you know what's hot? When those uptight characters finally unravel. It's sexy. It's cathartic. It's erotic. Plus, she's beautiful to look at in both black & white and technicolor, and the more of her films you see, the more you can't help but fall in love!

Literally is in thee most famously sexy scene of all time (or maybe just during the hays code era which is what we're talking about HELLO), which is the beach scene with Burt Lancaster in from here to eternity. To quote a tumblr post of a screen capture of a tweet of a video of joy behar on the view: "y'know, there used to be movies where they were kissing on the beach... From Here to Eternity. They're kissing-- Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr are Kissing on the Beach and then the WAVES crash!! You know exactly what they did!"

She might have a reputation of being chaste and virginal or whatever, but we all know it's the quiet ones who are certifiable FREAKS

Devika Rani:

Achhut Kanya (1936) is the only one of hers I've seen but hot DAMN

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BOLLYWOOD'S 36 MOST TALENTED ACTORS & 36 MOST TALENTED ACTRESSES OF ALL TIME (@INDIES) !

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THE TOP 400  GREATEST MALE PERFORMANCES IN BOLLYWOOD HISTORY!

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THE TOP 400 GREATEST FEMALE PERFORMANCES IN BOLLYWOOD HISTORY!)

Full List in Written Form -

Male List-

.Rajesh Khanna

.Dilip Kumar

.Guru Dutt

.Prithviraj Kapoor

.Dev Anand

.Shammi Kapoor

.K. L. Saigal

.Pradeep Kumar

.Sanjeev Kumar

.Bharat Bhushan

.Govinda

.Manoj Kumar

.Ashok Kumar

.Rajendra Kumar

.Amitabh Bachchan

.Balraj Sahni

.Sachin

.Dharmendra

.Vinod Khanna

.Raaj Kumar

.Naseeruddin Shah

.Vinod Mehra

.Sohrab Modi

.Farooq Shaikh

.Salman Khan

.Abhi Bhattacharya

.R. Madhavan

.Karan Dewan

.Akshaye Khanna

.Mithun Chakraborty

.Kishore Kumar

.I. S. Johar

.Shashi Kapoor

.Sunil Dutt

.Sailesh Kumar

.Harindranath Chattopadhyay .

Female List-

.Meena Kumari

.Vidya Sinha

.Khursheed

.Sadhana

.Hansa Wadkar

.Zeenat Aman

.Asha Parekh

.Nalini Jaywant

.Rekha

.Anita Guha

.Meena Shorey

.Sulakshana Pandit

.Pooja Bhatt

.Kalpana Mohan

.Waheeda Rehman

.Madhubala

.Bina Rai

.Patience Cooper

.Jehanara Kajjan

.Suchitra Sen

.Nutan

.Nanda

.Moushumi Chatterjee

.Indrani Mukherjee

.Kamini Kaushal

.Nargis

.Saira Banu

.Leela Chitnis

.Shyama

.Ayesha Jhulka

.Rati Agnihotri

.Hema Malini

.Jaya Prada

.Kanan Kaushal

.Rehana Sultan

.Raakhee .

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Tribute to Saraswati Devi, the first woman music director in Hindi films, on her 44th death anniversary (09/08/1980).

Born in a Parsi family in 1912, Saraswati Devi was a trained classical singer and rose to become India’s first woman music director of Bollywood.

A musical rage in the 30s and early 40s, Saraswati Devi's musical career was mostly confined to films produced by Bombay Talkies. Starting with 'Jawani Ki Hawa' in 1935, she went on to compose highly popular music for hit films like Achhut Kanya, Kangan, Bandhan and jhoola.

She was born as Khursheed Manchersher Minocher – Homji.

She changed her name to escape the wrath of the conservative elements of her community as they could never stand that a lady from their clan would enter the film world.

Once when at a gathering the Bombay Talkies owner Himanshu Rai heard her, he instantly invited her to join his concern as a music director. She was reluctant at first, not knowing how she would adjust herself to the needs of the film industry. But finally she accepted the offer.

She was the first woman music director no doubt. But the biggest challenge she faced was to groom non-singers into singers. That was a very, very big challenge in view of the competition from New Theatres as she didn’t have a Saigal or a Kanan to sing her compositions. That is why one should say that she had a formidable task to perform unlike her counterparts like R.C.Boral, Tamir Baran and others in Calcutta.

The biggest contribution by Saraswati Devi, therefore, was to produce hit songs through the lips of non-singers like Ashok Kumar, Devika Rani and Leela Chitnis.. Right from Achchut Kanya till Jhoola, Saraswati Devi went on rampage, so to speak, producing one hit after another. Leela Chitnis could sing hit songs like, ‘Meera ke jeevan ki sooni parri re sitar’ (Kangan), ‘Man bhavan lo sawan aya re’(Bandhan) and ‘Jhoole ke sang jhoolo jhoolo mere man’.(Jhoola) Imagine Saraswati Devi producing a golden jubilee hit in the voices of Ashok Kumar and Devika Rani in film ‘Achhut Kanya’ (a film that Nehru saw and appreciated)-‘Main ban ki chirriya ban ke ban ban bolun re’. The biggest hit by her was the marching song of Bandhan, ‘Chal chal re nau jawan’ sung in solo by Ashok Kumar, sung in chorus by Ashok Kumar and sung as a duet by him with Leela Chitnis. She used a non-singer like Sneh Prabha to sing the Puner Milan song, ‘Nacho nacho pyare man ke mor’. The male singer she had was Arun Kumar, who sung for Kishore Sahu in Punermilan, for Mumtaz Ali in ‘Jhoola’ (Main to Dilli se dulhan laya re he babuji) and others. Incidentally, it was she who gave break to Kavi Pradeep as a singer though he was writing lyrics for the concern since 1939 from film ‘Kangan’. She first used him in that immortal song of ‘Bandhan’ which is played in the back ground: ��Piyu piyu bol praan papeehe piyu piyu bol’ Pradeep did sing subsequently some big hits after leaving Bombay Talkies. But in ‘Jhoola’ he has left behind a memorable song too tuned by Saraswati Devi: ‘Mere bichade hue saathi teri yaad sataye, baar baar teri chavi aye birha agan jaraae’

After she left Bombay Talkies, she shot into limelight again in the early fifties when she tuned two non-film ghazals for Habib Wali Mohammad. These were: ‘Lagta nahin hai dil mera ujjarre dayar mein’ and ‘Yeh na thi hamari kismet ke visaal-e-yaar hota’. When you listen to her compositions, specially the indigenously-flavored background music, you are transported into the environment of the India of the early 20th century.

During the later years of her life, the bad and selfish film world turned apathetic towards the doyenne. Not even a single person visited her when she fractured her hip bone after falling from a private bus. The legendary singer and India’s first female music director left for a better world in 1980 with no one to mourn her death. Even the media did not find her worthy of an obituary. Image: Saraswati Devi, Lata Mangeshkar, Madan Mohan, Jaikishan, Anil Biswas and Naushad

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Leela Chitnis in Wahan (1937)

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LEELA CHITNIS IN MOVIE KANGAN

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Classic posters from Bollywood just after independence (1948-1951)

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Male List-

.Rajesh Khanna

.Dilip Kumar

.Guru Dutt

.Prithviraj Kapoor

.Dev Anand

.Shammi Kapoor

.K. L. Saigal

.Pradeep Kumar

.Sanjeev Kumar

.Bharat Bhushan

.Govinda

.Manoj Kumar

.Ashok Kumar

.Rajendra Kumar

.Amitabh Bachchan

.Balraj Sahni

.Sachin

.Dharmendra

.Vinod Khanna

.Raaj Kumar

.Naseeruddin Shah

.Vinod Mehra

.Sohrab Modi

.Farooq Shaikh

.Salman Khan

.Abhi Bhattacharya

.R. Madhavan

.Karan Dewan

.Akshaye Khanna

.Mithun Chakraborty

.Kishore Kumar

.I. S. Johar

.Shashi Kapoor

.Sunil Dutt

.Sailesh Kumar

.Harindranath Chattopadhyay .

Female List-

.Meena Kumari

.Vidya Sinha

.Khursheed

.Sadhana

.Hansa Wadkar

.Zeenat Aman

.Asha Parekh

.Nalini Jaywant

.Rekha

.Anita Guha

.Meena Shorey

.Sulakshana Pandit

.Pooja Bhatt

.Kalpana Mohan

.Waheeda Rehman

.Madhubala

.Bina Rai

.Patience Cooper

.Jehanara Kajjan

.Suchitra Sen

.Nutan

.Nanda

.Moushumi Chatterjee

.Indrani Mukherjee

.Kamini Kaushal

.Nargis

.Saira Banu

.Leela Chitnis

.Shyama

.Ayesha Jhulka

.Rati Agnihotri

.Hema Malini

.Jaya Prada

.Kanan Kaushal

.Rehana Sultan

.Raakhee .