Room 02 · 3 pieces
The cinema room.
Pieces from the cinema room. Guru Dutt, Bimal Roy, Ramesh Sippy — the directors and the films that built Hindi cinema's golden eras. Pyaasa, Bandini, Sholay.
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Piece CI-005
Cinema room
Best Guru Dutt Films Ranked and Explained
Guru Dutt directed 8 films before his death at 39 in 1964. Two of them — Pyaasa (1957) and Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) — sit on Time magazine's l…
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Piece CI-006
Cinema room
Why Sholay (1975) Still Matters, 50 Years Later
Sholay released in August 1975. By the end of 1975 it was tanking. By mid-1976 it had become — and remained — the single most successful Hin…
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Piece CI-007
Cinema room
Bimal Roy Films: Complete List and Why to Watch
Bimal Roy made socially conscious cinema before the term existed. Do Bigha Zamin (1953) won at Cannes. Devdas (1955) defined the tragic-hero…