Starring Akshay Kumar, Ileana D’Cruz, Esha Gupta, Arjan Bajwa
A picture-perfect naval officer, highly decorated principled patriotic and deeply in love with his wife, comes ashore quicker than expected and catches his wife cheating with his best friend.
Since the husband is played by the remarkably evolved Akshay Kumar we are mercifully spared the hysterical aftermath of an inherently melodramatic crime of passion that shook and stirred Mumbai’s beau monde in the year 1959.
That was the celebrated Nanawati case, known to change the way we look at the laws regarding crimes of passion. Rustom plucks the core of the crime, unplugs the theme of infidelity from its original context and plays deviously around with the facts to create a semi-fiction ‘what-if’ scenario where the characters hurl towards what the film’s writers would like to think of as an unexpectedly shocking ending.
It’s like watching a true-life...
A picture-perfect naval officer, highly decorated principled patriotic and deeply in love with his wife, comes ashore quicker than expected and catches his wife cheating with his best friend.
Since the husband is played by the remarkably evolved Akshay Kumar we are mercifully spared the hysterical aftermath of an inherently melodramatic crime of passion that shook and stirred Mumbai’s beau monde in the year 1959.
That was the celebrated Nanawati case, known to change the way we look at the laws regarding crimes of passion. Rustom plucks the core of the crime, unplugs the theme of infidelity from its original context and plays deviously around with the facts to create a semi-fiction ‘what-if’ scenario where the characters hurl towards what the film’s writers would like to think of as an unexpectedly shocking ending.
It’s like watching a true-life...
- 8/14/2016
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
India’s prestigious and one of Asia’s biggest film festivals, Iffi 2015 will be organising a Special Retrospective of this year’s Dadasaheb Phalke Award Winner Shashi Kapoor. In a career spanning over four decades, Shashi Kapoor has given some spectacular performances and has donned many hats as a producer, director, and actor. He appeared in 160 movies including 12 English and 148 Hindi films out of which he played the solo lead hero in 61 films and played lead hero in 53 multi-star cast films. He has also produced 6 films including Junoon, which won National Awards in 1979.
The ace filmmaker, Shyam Benegal who directed Shashi Kapoor in Kalyug and Junoon remembers the actor to be a “thorough professional. He says, “Though, Shashi was one of the biggest stars of his time, he was always punctual. He never made anyone wait even for a minute. He was always ready with his lines and would always...
The ace filmmaker, Shyam Benegal who directed Shashi Kapoor in Kalyug and Junoon remembers the actor to be a “thorough professional. He says, “Though, Shashi was one of the biggest stars of his time, he was always punctual. He never made anyone wait even for a minute. He was always ready with his lines and would always...
- 10/30/2015
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
It's a well known fact that Freedom Fighters, Prime Ministers, and dignitaries have been honored with postal stamps in India. But now breaking from tradition, six top film actresses from the previous generation have been honored with commemorative postage stamps in their names on Feb 13 (yesterday). Madhubala and Nargis, were the only actresses to have been bestowed with postal stamps in their names in the past. Now legends like Meena Kumari, Nutan, Leela Naidu, Devika Rani, Kanan Devi and Savithri Devi (who was better known as Meena Kumari of South India) have joined the likes of the evergreen beauties.
- 2/14/2011
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
It's a well known fact that Freedom Fighters, Prime Ministers, and dignitaries have been honored with postal stamps in India. But now breaking from tradition, six top film actresses from the previous generation have been honored with commemorative postage stamps in their names on Feb 13 (yesterday). Madhubala and Nargis, were the only actresses to have been bestowed with postal stamps in their names in the past. Now legends like Meena Kumari, Nutan, Leela Naidu, Devika Rani, Kanan Devi and Savithri Devi (who was better known as Meena Kumari of South India) have joined the likes of the evergreen beauties.
- 2/14/2011
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Six legendary actresses like Meena Kumari, Nutan, Kanan Devi, Devika Rani, Leela Naidu and Savitri Devi are being honoured with the issuance of postage stamps to coincide with the week-long Indipex 2011 Philately exhibition in the capital. This makes the total number of stamps on film personalities issues so far to just over twenty, even as the film industry is completing one hundred years of its existence next year.The first postage stamp to honour a film personality was i...
- 2/14/2011
- Bollywood Trade
Six legendary actresses like Meena Kumari, Nutan, Kanan Devi, Devika Rani, Leela Naidu and Savitri Devi are being honoured with the issuance of postage stamps to coincide with the week-long Indipex 2011 Philately exhibition in the capital. This makes the total number of stamps on film personalities issues so far to just over twenty, even as the film industry is completing one hundred years of its existence next year. The first postage stamp to honour a film personality was i...
- 2/12/2011
- GlamSham
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Best Film: Vidhu Vinod Chopra for 3 Idiots</span>Vidhu Vinod Chopra received the Best Film Award for 3 Idiots<span style="font-weight: bold;">Best Director: Rajkumar Hirani for 3 idiots</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" />Rajkumar Hirani, expectedly, won the Best Director Award for 3 Idiots<span style="font-weight: bold;">Best Actor: Amitabh Bachchan for Paa</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" />Amitabh bachchan won the Best Actor Award for Paa. In his absence, Vidya Balan took the award.<span style="font-weight: bold;">Best Actress: Vidya Balan for Paa</span>Sri Devi and Boney kapoor presented the Best Actress Award to Vidya balan for Paa. Vidya Balan said, "From nariyal to this Black lady, it.s been a great journey at the Filmfare. I thank Balki, my parents, Arundhati Nag. Also I would like to add that motherhood is a rewarding feeling, so I am greatly thankful to my son Auro who made me a mother..<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Egg-head Saif</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" />In a gag, Saif had an egg hatched on his head. When he and Shah Rukh went to meet Rekha,...
- 2/27/2010
- Filmicafe
Bollywood fans were united in their mourning today for the death of Irish-Indian actress Leela Naidu who has died in Mumbai after a long illness.
Leela first became a celebrity winning the Miss India beauty contest in 1954 and in the same year was named as one of Vogue's 10 most beautiful women in the world.
Her debut movie was Anuradha, which competed at the Berlin film festival in 1961, but her most famous and dramatic role was as the adulterous wife in Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke in 1963. It was based on the real-life Nanavati case - a classic love triangle involving a naval officer, his English wife and her lover. When the wife confessed to the affair, the husband set off in a rage and killed the lover. The case gripped the nation in 1959, partly because of the Anglo-Indian mix and the clash of cultures, but also the glamour of the...
Leela first became a celebrity winning the Miss India beauty contest in 1954 and in the same year was named as one of Vogue's 10 most beautiful women in the world.
Her debut movie was Anuradha, which competed at the Berlin film festival in 1961, but her most famous and dramatic role was as the adulterous wife in Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke in 1963. It was based on the real-life Nanavati case - a classic love triangle involving a naval officer, his English wife and her lover. When the wife confessed to the affair, the husband set off in a rage and killed the lover. The case gripped the nation in 1959, partly because of the Anglo-Indian mix and the clash of cultures, but also the glamour of the...
- 7/30/2009
- Bollyspice
Bollywood icon Leela Naidu has died at the age of 69.
The actress passed away in Mumbai, India, on Tuesday after suffering lung failure following a prolonged bout of influenza.
Naidu, who was crowned Miss India in 1954, starred in a number of high profile Hindi films.
She was best known for acting in Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke, based on the 1959 Nanavati case - the last jury trial held in India - and in Merchant Ivory Productions' first film The Householder.
Naidu also narrowly missed out on appearing alongside Marlon Brando in Brit film The Journey.
She was last seen on screen in 1992 movie Electric Moon.
The actress passed away in Mumbai, India, on Tuesday after suffering lung failure following a prolonged bout of influenza.
Naidu, who was crowned Miss India in 1954, starred in a number of high profile Hindi films.
She was best known for acting in Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke, based on the 1959 Nanavati case - the last jury trial held in India - and in Merchant Ivory Productions' first film The Householder.
Naidu also narrowly missed out on appearing alongside Marlon Brando in Brit film The Journey.
She was last seen on screen in 1992 movie Electric Moon.
- 7/29/2009
- WENN
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