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By many accounts, director Saran’s 2005 release Idhayathirudan (“The One Who Steals the Heart”) was not a success. Part of the problem might be the heroine...

“A love story between husband and wife” is how the DVD cover describes this 1997 Kannada movie. Talking about this film, the female lead, the actress...


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Music from the incredibly prolific Ilaiyaraaja here. Ilaiyaraaja has composed music for well over 800 films, and his enviable fluency is evident in every measure. This...

The three films that furnished the songs for this release all date from 1963 and 1964. Two of the three were available for review research (...

Although not a box office smash when it was released in 2002, director Kundan Shah’s Dil Hai Tumhaara (“My Heart Is Yours”) attracted attention because of...

Two Tamil films of the 1960s appear together here. They make an apt coupling, as the stories of both films concern the interface between humans and...


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Aap Ke Kassam (1974) and Raja Rani (1973) are films with serious undertones. However, in true Indian fashion, the darker dramatic elements don’t totally dominate, but...