The party goes on

The film industry has found new ways to to mark Indian cinemas centenary.

The film industry has found new ways to to mark Indian cinemas centenary. The recent event was a fundraiser for cancer patients,titled Uff Yoo Maa,at the Taj Mahal Palace,Colaba. The Taj Group of Hotels along with the Tata Medical Centre hosted a musical evening where Bollywood stars shared some of their most memorable behind-the-scenes moments.

Veteran film artistes including Waheeda Rahman,Asha Parekh,Shabana Azmi,Javed Akhtar and Amin Sayani walked the ramp as did Rekha and Vishal Bhardwaj,Usha Uthup,Aditi Rao Hydari and Sonam Kapoor. A song from every decade was performed and dialogues from landmark movies such as Naaz,Barsaat,Mughal-e-Azam,and Devdas,apart from recent films such as Kaminey were screened.

Azmi,whose father Kaifi Azmi wrote the lyrics for the movie Kagaz Ke Phool,revealed how her father would first compose a tune,and hed have to fit in the lyrics later. It was like digging a grave beforehand,and then trying to fit the corpse in; sometimes an odd limb would stick out,but theyd make it work, she recounted.

Akhtar admitted he was amused by the fact that dialogues from Sholay became iconic. I read a thesis by a student on the metaphorical socio-cultural significance of the 70s through the dialogues of Sholay. I thought to myself,What significance? Salim (Khan) and I were really just writing dialogues for a movie,thats all there was to it, he said.

Akhtars comment on the current working of the industry summed up the mood of the evening. People are far more committed to cinema today with more corporate and production houses,but it lacks the madness and the heartbeat that there was in the 60s and 70s, he said.

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The party goes on

The film industry has found new ways to to mark Indian cinemas centenary.

The film industry has found new ways to to mark Indian cinemas centenary.