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Before TV show ‘Pehredaar Piya Ki’, a similar ‘rare bonding’ in Telugu movie ‘Moodu Mulla Bandham’

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In Sony Pictures Television’s controversial show Pehredaar Piya Ki, nine-year-old Ratan marries 18-year-old Diya – a union that violates the law on child marriage. The show carries a disclaimer that its makers do not promote child marriage. In an interview with Scroll.in, producer Sumeet Mittal said that the objective was to show “a rare bonding between a little boy and a woman”. Ratan’s life is in danger.
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How legendary singer KJ Yesudas cast a spell on Hindi film music

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By Archana Nathan
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KJ Yesudas’s first Hindi film song appears in a film within a film. Jaaneman Jaaneman, from Basu Chatterji’s Chhoti Si Baat (1976), plays in a film that Arun (Amol Palekar) is watching in a theatre. Dharmendra and Hema Malini – among the biggest stars at the time – play lovers romancing in a park. It is a situation that Arun can only dream of because his own love life is depressingly the opposite. Arun adores Prabha (Vidya Sinha) but is tongue-tied in her presence.
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Flashback: When Dilip Kumar chose to play a character who commits an unpardonable crime

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By Archana Nathan
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Mehboob Khan’s Amar didn’t do well at the box office when it was released in 1954. That’s hardly surprising: it had a morally depraved hero who does something unthinkable and very un-herolike. Amarnath (Dilip Kumar) is a reputed lawyer who is engaged to Anju Devi (Madhubala). Amar’s passion for justice is the strongest, we are told – you cannot imagine Amar doing anything unlawful.
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