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ses in the contract was that no work on a cinematic adaptation could begin until the west end production had been closed for at least six months and the play continues to be performed at west end but that it seems didn t stop film makers in other countries from using the story and making their own versions of it the bengali film chupi chupi aashey he comes stealthily is an adaptation of the mousetrap and was supposedly the first indian film to be based on a book by agatha christie continue reading share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin more share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp like loading posted in dusted off tagged agatha christie asha debi bengali cinema chupi chupi aashey film review jahar ganguly mystery namita debi prabir kumar premendra mitra robin majumdar sandhya mukherjee sushama ghoshal tapati ghosh tarun kumar chatterjee the mousetrap tulsi chakraborty shahu modak manhar desai and secularism in old hindi cinema posted on june 30 2026 by dustedoff 33 some time back i was standing at the gate of our housing society waiting for my daughter s school bus to arrive a neighbour the mother of one of my daughter s classmates began complaining about the poor standard according to her of teaching in the school which is christian mission run her contention was that teachers who aren t qualified or don t really excel are allowed to stay on in the school simply because they re christian you see them in the school photos she said all converts you can see by their faces i pointed out gently that most christians in india or actually across the world have been converted at some time or the other either in their own lifetimes or through their ancestors no no that s not what i mean she said i mean people who have been given incentives by missionaries to convert i have lived in south india i have seen a lot of this she must have seen the look on my face and she hurried to clarify you can tell they re converts because of their mixed names i have a mixed name i said madhulika liddle and then i think the penny dropped so far she had forgotten perhaps that i am christian she blustered of course of course but not you i mean people who look perfectly normal but are christian normal so christians are not normal by which time the school bus had arrived and i think both of us were relieved to have an end to what had become an awkward conversation continue reading share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin more share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp like loading posted in uncategorized tagged bollywood classic bollywood hindi cinema manhar desai old bollywood old hindi cinema secularism in cinema shahu modak amardeep 1958 posted on june 21 2026 by dustedoff 12 given that i am a fan of mid 1950s early 1960s dev anand and that this film also stars vyjyanthimala whom i like a lot it should come as no surprise that i ve had this film bookmarked for several years now somehow it kept getting ignored until some weeks back when i discovered that amardeep was a remake of the 1956 tamil film amara deepam starring shivaji ganesan savitri and padmini and that amara deepam was based on random harvest continue reading share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin more share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp like loading posted in dusted off tagged amara deepam amardeep anwar hussain bipin gupta bollywood c ramachandra david abraham dev anand film review hindi cinema johnny walker mukri om prakash padmini pran ragini rajendra krishan randhir random harvest shivraj t prakash rao vyjyanthimala thank you jeeves 1936 posted on june 14 2026 by dustedoff 8 what i didn t like about this film yes i am breaking with tradition this is not going to be the usual type of blog post format i use for film reviews on dustedoff for the simple reason that this travesty of a film doesn t deserve that much time and effort so what i didn t like the mockery they ve made of a wodehouse story writers joseph hoffman and stephen gross and director arthur greville collins give credit to wodehouse but all that remains in the film that is even vaguely connected to wodehouse and his style are the two main characters bertie wooster david niven and his gentleman s gentleman jeeves arthur treacher nothing else not the elements of the story not the language not the story is anything like the jeeves and wooster stories the characters are insipid wooster isn t a chump jeeves is in fact jeeves is such a moron he doesn t even realize he s literally on the edge of something big he is distinguished only by that stiff upper lip no brilliant brains no coming up with genius schemes to haul the young master out of the mulligatawny in fact when jeeves eventually does come to bertie s help it s with fists flying it s jeeves s fighting skills not his brainpower that comes in use here continue reading share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin more share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp like loading posted in uncategorized tagged arthur greville collins arthur treacher david niven film review hollywood joseph hoffman pg wodehouse stephen gross thank you jeeves virginia field willy best ten of my favourite suman kalyanpur songs posted on june 6 2026 by dustedoff 45 in may i posted a tribute to asha bhonsle and anu remarked that with her passing an era has ended a comment i agreed with but to which blog reader pratick mukherjee replied by saying that we still have suman kalyanpur and sudha malhotra and sadly we do not have suman kalyanpur any more she passed away on may 31 2026 at the age of 89 an immensely talented singer and one who proved her worth in one song after the other but who remains underrated often unfairly compared to lata mangeshkar even though their voices i think were very similar but lata was a colossus no one could really beat that however is a debate for elsewhere and for another time for now i want to focus on suman kalyanpur and to celebrate her work in ten songs i had dithered over whether i should focus on ten duets or ten solos and then decided to not restrict myself because my favourite suman kalyanpur songs include both duets as well as solos continue reading share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin more share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp like loading posted in ten of my favourite tagged aajkal tere mere pyaar ke charche ajhun na aaye baalma baat ek raat ki barsaat ki raat bollywood music brahmachari bujha diye hain khud apne haathon garjat barsat saawan aayo re hindi film music mere mehboob na jaa modern girl mohabbat isko kehte hain na na na re na na haath na lagaana na tum humein jaano na hum tumhe jaanein noor mahal noorjehan saanjh aur savera shagoon sharaabi sharaabi yeh saawan ka mausam suman kalyanpur taj mahal thehariye hosh mein aa loon yeh mausam rangeen sama aarzoo 1965 posted on may 28 2026 by dustedoff 32 a couple of months back my sister swapna was invited to head a quiz team at a pub quiz jai arjun singh who was also there wrote about it here telling me about the quiz later swapna mentioned that there was one question that even jai didn t know in aarzoo which place in delhi does rajendra kumar s character say he belongs to nobody could answer that question but the answer is okhla village which sort of struck a chord with me because till we shifted from delhi to noida my husband and i had spent many years living very close to okhla and noida in case you weren t aware of this is actually an acronym for new okhla industrial development authority okhla follows us around or we refuse to really move away from okhla this incident reminded me though that i have never reviewed aarzoo on this blog though i ve watched the film at least twice time to amend that i decided newly minted medical graduate gopal rajendra kumar and his neighbour ramesh feroze khan have been best friends since their childhood gopal s younger sister sarla nazima and his widowed mother achla sachdev regard ramesh pretty much the same as gopal a member of the family a brother son just as gopal is continue reading share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin more share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp like loading posted in uncategorized tagged aarzoo achla sachdev bhanu athaiya bollywood brahm bhardwaj dhumal feroz khan film review hari shivdasani hasrat jaipuri hindi cinema malika mehmood nazima nazir hussain praveen paul rajendra kumar ramanand sagar sadhana shankar jaikishan asha bhonsle ten duets ten co singers part 2 posted on may 16 2026 by dustedoff 42 when i posted this list of ten asha duets last week the plan had not been to post a follow up list as well but then blog readers began commenting on the post and several of them posted songs that i really like with playback singers i hadn t mentioned after all when you re doing a list of just ten songs the tendency and i admit i succumbed to this temptation is to include your favourite songs all the duets with rafi kishore mukesh et al featured there and those songs with these singers that didn t actually get listed i at least made it a point to mention even when i d posted that list i was ruing the fact that i had still not got around to writing about asha s songs with say her sister usha mangeshkar there were in addition a few rare songs with relatively little known singers too that i had had in mind but hadn t written about so many good songs on the back burner i decided a part 2 was in order so here it is ten duets sung by asha bhonsle with a fellow singer who wasn t listed in the earlier post as always these songs are all from pre 1970s hindi films that i ve seen these are in no particular order continue reading share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin more share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp like loading posted in dusted off ten of my favourite tagged anaadi hai shikaari dekho dillagi asha bhonsle asha bhonsle duets asha bhonsle songs assalam aleikum babu kaho kaisa haal hai baawre nain bahaaron ke sapne bollywood music dadi amma dadi amma maan jaao dekho maane nahin roothi haseena 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