Made in just Rs 25 lakh, this film became Bollywood’s most profitable film ever, beating RRR, Sholay, Mughal-e-Azam, Pathaan, and Dangal In the 1970s, Hindi cinema was discovering angst and violence in a western manner for the first time. The emergence of Amitabh Bachchan as the Angry Young Man as well as the rising fame…
This Bollywood classic earned Rs 3650 crore when adjusted for inflation and sold more tickets than RRR and Jawan combined It has not been even 20 years since the term 100-crore club was coined as a measure of successful Indian films. This club was meant for films that were able to earn Rs 100 crore…
This actress was Bollywood’s leading star while just a teenager, but her personal life remained tragic As India was flexing itself as a newly-independent nation, its biggest film industry – Hindi cinema – was also throwing up new stars as aspirational figures for the audiences. Over the next two decades, the triumvirate of Dilip Kumar,…
This singer sang only two Hindi film songs but commanded a fees 100 times as much as Mohammed Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar It’s hard to imagine but there was a time when playback singers in Indian film industry were no particularly well paid. In today’s times, when big names like AR Rahman can charge up…
60 साल पहले रिलीज हुई इस फिल्म ने उस वक्त 11 करोड़ रुपये की कमाई की थी, जो आज के हिसाब से 3650 करोड़ रुपये होती है। यह बहुत समय पहले की बात नहीं है जब 100 करोड़ रुपये की घरेलू कमाई को सफल फिल्मों के लिए एक मानक माना जाता था। अब दुनिया भर…
