On actor Tanuja's 80th birthday, we dig deep into the life and work of Indian cinema's one of the finest actors, who has never been a conformist. She did not become an actor by choice but because of circumstances.
Inspired plots or films based on borrowed story ideas from the west have been associated with Hindi cinema since the early decades post-independence. There have been court cases related to plagiarism, with the films getting banned and the prints destroyed, but the trend continues even in the present. With the world getting connected through the internet.
There has been a prominent presence of lovable Christian characters in our secular Hindi cinema right from the 1950s, following a set format. But despite films like Anari, Mem Didi, Mera Naam Joker, Anand, Bobby, Julie, and more, the one character that rose to the level of a cult heroic figure is Anthony Gonsalves from Manmohan Desai’s Amar Akbar Anthony (1977).
Post the trend of biographical movies, the latest buzz in Hindi cinema is of spin-off films based on the famous characters of hit movies/series of the past. A few weeks back, we had the web series Special Ops 1.5: The Himmat Story based on the key character Himmat Singh (Kay Kay Menon) of Special Ops (2020). And this week, we have the digital release of Bob Biswas featuring Abhishek Bachchan.