Veteran Actor

By - Ali Peter John They called him Shashi baba, even whether they were big star, junior artists or dancers everyone loved him, like they never loved any other star. His smile they said could kill. According to a survey, he was ranked…

ALI PETER JOHN Those days, I think it was in the early eighties when every second Hindi film was being shot in Hyderabad or in some other places in Andhra Pradesh. Jeetendra was the ruling star and it was who decided who his co-stars would…

Ali Peter John These days no newspaper, magazine, TV Channel or any other social media cannot exist without having something or the other about Amitabh Bachchan and writers, reporters and even editors have to look for new ways of having…

Ali Peter John. Every festival gives me many more reasons than the world has to celebrate them because I celebrate festivals as a Dev Anand festival because for me there is no festival or Celebration beyond the life and times of Dev Anand,…

BY ALI PETER JOHN He says he has no story to tell about himself, but if he doesn’t, then who has? Amitabh Bachchan, a living legend who has gone beyond all description. What can one say about a man and an actor who has defied all…

Ali Peter John It was the year 1994, it must have been- the very first time I met Amitabh Bachchan. It was at an event of the World Chess Championship in Hyderabad, he had come there to inaugurate it and apparently, this was the time. He…

Legendary actor of Hindi films Viju Khote died today i.e. on 30 September. He was 78 years old. Viju Khote was ill for a long time. This morning he breathed his last at his Mumbai home. The news of Viju Khote's demise has caused a wave of…

To commemorate the 91st birth anniversary of DEV ANAND today on September 26 this year, we are reproducing an interview by JYOTHI VENKATESH that appeared for the first time 40 years ago in Free Press Bulletin dated August 4, 1979. The…

Ali Peter John During the last 10 years of his life, Devanand had any number of writers from India and abroad who were willing to write the biography about his life and career but Dev was not willing to give anyone the authority to write…

It seems like eternity words and words, millions and billions of waves of words have been flowing anxiously, restlessly, breathlessly and relentlessly in their attempts to describe an enigma, am individual, a dream, the world knows as Dev…