"With a little probing, another angle cropped up — women of course."The problem was the applause I was getting for my performances," he said shortly.An extract from the chapter Rocky And Rock-steady Friendships from the book Anything But Khamosh: The Shatrughan Sinha Biography by columnist, critic and author Bharathi S. I had matured. It was like a man who knew that popularity was his birthright. At the height of his popularity as a villain, SS had done Heera and Sultan Ahmed had been grateful that despite his escalating stardom, when the film got delayed, he was the only star who didn’t hike his price. To strengthen their position, they would be by Amitabh’s side. But my secretary, Pawanji, said, ‘The set of Shaan is ready and waiting. "During Shaan, I had my first experience of dealing with the death of someone close to me when my father passed away. PradhanPeople say that Amitabh and I made a dynamic pair on screen but if he did not wish to work with me, if he felt that in Naseeb, Shaan, Dostana or Kaala Patthar Shatrughan Sinha bhari pad gaya, it didn’t affect me," he said nonchalantly. Such things can never be hidden in our world."The stand-off spilled over to the sets. I found it all very strange and wondered why this was happening because I never had any complaints against him." Only a few people know that Amitabh Bachchan (along with Mehmood’s brother Anwar Ali with whom he used to stay), Anil Dhawan, Asrani, Subhash Ghai and Shatrughan were all great buddies at one time, and spent several evenings together in Devdoot, the Bandstand apartment.

For me, once my fee was decided, I’d squirm to revise it," he revealed. So I came back to Bombay and was having lunch when Jarnail Singh, my late friend who used to rehabilitate drug addicts, came to tell me that my father was no more Baba passed away on April 10, 1979. SS had a simplistic explanation for what went wrong between Amitabh Bachchan and him when they had so much going between them. I’ve seen him as a friend, we’ve worked together as colleagues, we’ve sailed together in good times and bad, I have good memories also. If I like a performance, I will praise him. We’d be heading from the location towards the same hotel but he’d sit in his car and never say, ‘Let’s go together’. For that reason, though people say she is short-tempered, you’d never hear me say a word against Jaya Bachchan."Subhash Ghai’s sharp assessment of SS — the warmth, the warts and the wars — presented the other side of the story. In showbiz, everybody knew who was visiting whom. Subhash Ghai recalled, "There was a diploma film of his in which he hits a guy and checks his watch to see if it had stopped. I would praise him for his courage in doing a role like Paa, for sitting for hours to get his make-up done, for carrying off such a role.

"But along with fight master Shetty who is no more, it was changed to Amitabh beating the hell out of me, beating me constantly until Shashi Kapoor separated us."By the time Kaala Patthar happened, there was barely any semblance of the friendship that once was.. so many films that I gave up without a backward glance because of Amitabh Bachchan. He’d shown signs of it at FTII itself."According to SS, tweaking a scene was not a new trait in Amitabh. My best friend had died but I didn’t shed a tear. But when the camel morphed into a saleable box-office draw, Sultan Ahmed brazenly signed Amitabh Bachchan to topline Ganga Ki Saugandh — a film he had promised SS Unfortunately, things did go amiss between Amitabh Bachchan and SS. "There were so many films that I dropped out of and returned the signing amount. For instance, I wouldn’t praise his acting in Paa. I went home to Patna, I cried a lot.. There was a film called Patthar Ke Log — one of Prakash Mehra’s — written by Salim-Javed. It had happened even during Dostana.". I had recommended him to Late Sultan Ahmed," SS said. "It is true that I also recommended Amitabh for films."At FTII, there was a staircase near the sound department. Even when my mother died on April 22, 2002, I didn’t cry as much as I did that day When Sanjeev Kumar died, I was standing for nine hours by his gate. "Maybe they didn’t like something about me and they said something to Amitabh Bachchan, or maybe they said things about me because I knew a lot about them.. One day, I was standing there when I looked up and saw a guy coming down the Wholesale Custom Color letter Signs stairs, a tall guy with a very dominating voice talking to the students This guy walked up to me and said, ‘Subhash Ghaisaab, hum Shatrughan Sinha hain aur hame khushi hai ki aap hame marg darshan denge film industry mein kaise pravesh karna hai,’" Ghai laughed. "Once, Amitabh had wanted the scene done in a particular way and Raj Khosla, the director, didn’t oblige him. ‘I don’t think I’ve cried as much as I did at my father’s funeral. On the other hand I thought he was superb in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Black.’

It was a scene with Raakhee, where there’s firing on a bridge. Besides, my clashes with Amitabh have always been issue-based. On this point I had to put my foot down and protest that this was not what had been narrated to me I had to argue this out and shooting was stopped for three to four hours which irked Amitabh. " What all of them did see was a strange confidence that none of them ever possessed."He didn’t question it but even in his grief he had noted that Amitabh had not paid him a condolence visit when his father had passed on during the shooting of Shaan. Maybe it was his unique style of improvisation that fetched him notice The rest of us were a bit insecure and slightly naive... Being a senior, I used to give them tips on how to conduct themselves in the film world," Ghai mentally visited the fabulous days on the campus.. It still seems like yesterday."People say that Zeenat Aman or Rekha also contributed a little to the rift," SS dropped their names slowly. That’s why he didn’t want me in some of his films. The media would immediately know if Reena was in my make-up room. But I don’t indulge in empty flattery; I’m not in awe of him. He became instantly popular because of that shot. "Amitabh could see the response I was getting. I was in Delhi and that particular day I was really keen to go to Patna to see him, he had been ailing.. "I would often go to Poona to meet my beloved Rehana and I used to go to the Institute to meet the junior students who were very insecure about what would happen to them in the film industry. "There was a fight sequence in Kaala Patthar which I had been told would be an equal fight," SS explained. She would come during Dostana also but not once would he bring her out and introduce her to any of us. His confidence made us laugh, it made us suspicious, aur achcha bhi lagta tha. During Kaala Patthar, a heroine who was known to be very friendly with him, would visit him.But that doesn’t mean I don’t respect his personality. Rajji couldn’t believe that he could be talked to in such a manner by an actor.During Heera, Sultan Ahmed would ask SS, "Where are you roaming around with this camel " referring to his buddy, Amitabh. "On the sets of Kaala Patthar, the chair next to Amitabh would not be offered to me, nor would his umbrella be ever trained to cover any of us. "The other actors tend to follow the maxim, ‘Different times, different rates’.. Amitabh had hit out so belligerently, almost abusively, that a senior like Raj Khosla was reduced to tears. But it didn’t require a great actor; it required a great personality which he could impart to the role

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The Indian government has not publicly disclosed what weapons were used in the strike.Another senior government official told reporters on the same day that about 300 militants had been killed. "If the strike had been successful, given the information we have about what kind of munitions were used, I would expect to see signs that the buildings had been damaged," Lewis added.India’s Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said on the Galvanized stainless steel letter Signs day of the strike that "a very large number of Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists, trainers, senior commanders, and groups of jihadis who were being trained for Fidayeen action were eliminated" in the attack.

The images cast further doubt on statements made over the last eight days by the Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the raids, early on Feb. "There has been no damage to any infrastructure or human life as a result of Indian incursion," Major General Asif Ghafoor, the director general of the Pakistan military’s press wing, in a statement to Reuters."At a time when our army is engaged in crushing terrorism, inside the country and outside, there are some people within the country who are trying to break their morale, which is cheering our enemy," Modi said at an election rally on Sunday.

But the images from Planet Labs, which show details as small as 72 cm (28 inches), offer a clearer look at the structures the Indian government said it attacked.Modi has accused the opposition Congress party, and other opponents such as Banerjee, of helping India’s enemies by demanding evidence of the attacks.The image is virtually unchanged from an April 2018 satellite photo of the facility."We want to know how many people actually died," said Mamata Banerjee, the firebrand chief minister of West Bengal state, in a video published by her All India Trinamool Congress party in a tweet on Feb.He said there weren’t any human casualties: "No one died.Lewis and Dave Schmerler, a senior research associate at the James Martin Centre for Nonproliferation studies who also analyses satellite images, said weapons that large would have caused obvious damage to the structures visible in the picture."Bomb CratersIn two visits to the Balakot area in Pakistan by Reuters reporters last Tuesday and Thursday, and extensive interviews with people in the surrounding area, there was no evidence found of a destroyed camp or of anyone being killed. 14. 26.Political FireIndia must hold a general election by May, and pollsters say Modi and his Hindu nationalist party stand to benefit from his aggressive response to a suicide bomb attack that killed 40 Indian paramilitary police in the disputed Kashmir region on Feb.New Delhi: High-resolution satellite images reviewed by Reuters show that a religious school run by Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in northeastern Pakistan appears to be still standing days after India claimed its warplanes had hit the Islamist group’s training camp on the site and killed a large number of militants.."Pakistan has disputed India’s account, saying the operation was a failure that saw Indian jets, under pressure from Pakistani planes, drop their bombs on a largely empty hillside. On Tuesday, a defence official said the aircraft used the 2,000-lb Israeli-made SPICE 2000 glide bomb in the strike. There are no discernible holes in the roofs of buildings, no signs of scorching, blown-out walls, displaced trees around the madrasa or other signs of an aerial attack. Only some pine trees died, they were cut down.

"The high-resolution images don’t show any evidence of bomb damage," he said.The Indian government has not produced evidence that a camp was destroyed or that any militants were killed in the raid."Mohammad Saddique from Jaba Basic Health Unit and Zia Ul Haq, senior medical officer at Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Balakot said they had seen no casualties.A warhead of that size is meant to destroy hardened targets such as concrete shelters. On Sunday the president of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Amit Shah, put the number killed at more than 250. Fidayeen is a term used to describe Islamist militants on suicide missions.

That has prompted some opposition politicians to push for more details. "We don’t want a war for political reasons, to win an election," she said.India’s foreign and defence ministries did not reply to emailed questions sent in the past few days seeking comment on what is shown in the satellite images and whether they undermine its official statements on the airstrikes. 26, had hit all the intended targets at the madrasa site near Jaba village and the town of Balakot in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. "Where did the bombs fall? Did they actually fall in the right place?"Banerjee, who is seen as a potential prime ministerial candidate, said that she stood behind the Indian Armed Forces, but that they should be given a chance to speak the truth.On the wooded slopes above Jaba, they pointed to four craters and some splintered pine trees, but noted little other impact from the blasts that jolted them awake about 3 am on Feb. "This has been vindicated by both domestic and international media after visiting the site. A crow also died.Missed the target?Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Project at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, who has 15 years’ experience in analysing satellite images of weapons sites and systems, confirmed that the high-resolution satellite picture showed the structures in question.Until now, no high-resolution satellite images were publicly available."It shook everything," said Abdur Rasheed, a van driver who works in the area.The images produced by Planet Labs Inc, a San Francisco-based private satellite operator, show at least six buildings on the madrasa site on March 4, six days after the airstrike.Villagers said there had been a series of huge explosions but the bombs appeared to have landed among trees. Lewis viewed three other high-resolution Planet Labs pictures of the site taken within hours of the image provided to Reuters. "I just don’t see that here.Government sources told Reuters last week that 12 Mirage 2000 jets carrying 1,000 kg (2,200 lbs) bombs carried out the attack

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Here dullness is omnipresent — it’s there in the tedious heist, in the acting, in the characters that actors are supposed to pose as, in the film’s pace and especially in the desi-fication of the heist which acquires a revenge-for-daddy’s-death goal to be attempted by do-gooder but duffer chors..

It was about what Mr Kashyap can get away with and that indulgence is really annoying. A tall order!6. He likes to hop from one country to another — Afghanistan, Russia, Riga, Somalia, Pakistan — to bash up the bad guys and try to locate a deadly bomb which is meant for India. was expecting us to get excited about Mithun and Ranjeeta being back together on screen after decades.

Usually I have really low expectations of Vikram Bhatt, and yet he managed to shock me with this punar janam-revenge torture. That the film is directed by Aanandbalraj (one word), the guy who played Debu in the Anil Kapoor-Madhuri Dixit starrer Ram Lakhan, and whose only memorable line in the film was, "India is great" is warning enough. They tried to weave some nonsensical story about an undercover cop using a porn star to get to a don with putrid dialogues that included the words sitaron and maang. Others kill all future prospects in one go.. Perhaps looking for a place to hide and wait for this calamity to pass. It’s an imbecility. The original story was heart-warming — about an ageing man who loses his beloved wife to alzheimer’s everyday. DepartmentThe experience of watching Department is akin to being dragged by one ankle through the mucky and nauseating innards of Ram Gopal Varma. Agent VinodAgent Vinod is a film about a vaulting spy on a mission to save Bharat Mata, except that this son of India is an idiot. It takes a special kind of fuzzy love for oneself to make a film that is meant only to delight and impress the director and the Gangs of Anurag Kashyap. So they signed her and created a story around her two titties and two titty-crazy men. It’s just a camera following several idiots doing their special idiotic things around Veena Malik and a suitcase full of money. It’s like a mid-life crisis, like going back to an old lover for some self-love. 4. and some of the worst actors in the history of B-grade cinema.

That Kashyap is a master filmmaker is apparent in some almost casual strokes of brilliance in GoW. It was anti-climatic... But only some, like Sridevi, do it sensibly. His Godfather-goes-to-Dhanbad saga has some good performances, interesting characters and scenes, but nothing makes up for the fact that Gangs of Wasseypur is not operatic, it’s soporific. Director Ashu Trikha has copied the Hollywood film scene by scene, ventriloquising lines and expressions, thus crushing any soul or sense the film may have had. 3. That’s a stretch, even for Bollywood. 5. But that’s not the point of this film. And it doesn't help that throughout the film, the camera skitters about, trying to creep up someone’s pyjama, jeans, lungi. In this cop-goonda absurdity which is very loosely based on Infernal Affairs, women suck on kulfi and prance around in panties while men are either shooting or getting shot. Zindagi Tere NaamZindagi Tere Naam is not inspired by The Notebook. That this nonsense was directed by Gaddaar Sriram Raghavan was doubly depressing.7. But Mr Bhandarkar has the uncanny ability to turn whatever he touches tacky, including his incessant moralising. GoW 1& 2 was never about its story or its telling. 8.. It matched mine.

This required Ms Leone to do more than just pant and ride men, and the men to more than just graze. Gangs of WasseypurThe world is divided between people who loved Gangs of Wasseypur 1&2 and those who hated it. Huh 10. Obviously upset that he had a mother of two for a heroine, his film sulks, throughout, in 3D. In various get-ups, one janam after another, it doesn’t drop the sulking.9. Dangerous IshqqFormer female film stars, when they get bored playing ghar-ghar, decide to return to the celluloid.. Daal Mein Kuch. After part 1, I sat twiddling my thumbs on the fence, wondering, waiting But when part 2 arrived, after a gap of seven weeks, my boredom tipped me on the side of haters. Gary Gary’s 2003 The Italian Job, is strictly for the dim-witted. The gaps in this one long chase to get to a bomb are filled by such poppycock that I can only quote what someone on Twitter said very succinctly: "Agent Vinod should be called Travel Agent Vinod".He managed to get Bollywood’s Custom Brass Letters Signs Manufacturers most glamorous star and Kareena looked really good. The Bhatts should have kept the film raunchy, semi-pornographic even. They didn’t. Mein kahan jaaon " Bhaad mein, I’d say. But here we go into flashback, to Chandigarh, where we meet young, annoying lovers. Jism 2Jism 2 is the story of the opportunistic Bhatts — father Mahesh and daughter Pooja — who saw money in the bank the moment they spotted angel-face desi porn star Sunny Leone on Bigg Boss. PlayersAbbas-Mastan’s retelling of F. Karisma Kapoor, apart from being entombed in a foolish fancy-dress fantasy with kilos of makeup, scarves and jackets, skulks through this film with one expression: harried. The other warning is what Ms Malik repeatedly says in this film: "Uff! Ek taraf bhoot, doosri taraf goonde log. The highlight of the film was a chase that involved three adorable Mini Coopers trying to dodge hovering helicopters. All the action, all the gore, the abuses, jokes and caricature characters stand apart and alone, making little sense. Everyone does it.Daal Mein Kuch Kaala Hai! cannot be called a film. This thing doesn’t have a single coherent thought, forget a full story. Zindagi

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