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The early innocent days of the internet, when stars actually replied. I wrote to Yash Chopra asking about the lady on screen for the song 'aage bhee jaane na too' and he promptly emailed the reply. Shammi Kapoor had a great personal site. And here Sharmila Tagore answers a question about a book she was reading, in the train.
Note: Anirudha Bhattacharjee points out that he was in that group and the email may be fake.
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in Shree Rambhakt Hanuman (1948) and Heer Ranjha (1970)
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I was too young to be taken to the movies when Nagin (1954) came out. I bought the song booklet with my pocket money, memorized all the songs and sang along whenever the songs were played, during festivals, marriages, in the paan shops of Moti Bazar in Malerkotla.
I saw it in 1967-68 in Chandigarh at a Matinee show. Of course, I enjoyed it thoroughly. One scene stuck in memory and puzzled me. I S Johar was a theater owner. He had thick eyebrows, fake mustache, fake glasses, walked in a funny sort of bent way with hands on hips and talked very fast.
The mystery was solved a few years later when I saw my first Marx Brothers film, Duck Soup, in Pittsburgh.
I S Johar was doing an impression of Groucho Marx!
See a clip here
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