At The Edge

Came across it in 'A Pictorial History of Indian Cinema'  by Firoze Rangoonwalla (1979). -0-

"Do cheezon ke liye main banoo musalmaan. Ek seekh kabab aur doosra Waheeda Rahman" ~ Tom Alter in Kashmir -0-

Vyjayanthimala in Amrapali inserted into a comic panel based on story of Hamsavali from Somadeva's Kathasaritsagara. -0-

When Ashok Kumar famously took up chicken farming. Ashok Kumar at his farm in Karla near Poona. Filmfare December 1, 1972 Photographs: Balkrishan -0-

Unidentified Indian model on cover of Jimmy Smith's Any Number Can Win (1963). -0-

'Muslim Social' directed by K. Asif at the age of 23. Story by Kamal Amrohi. -0-

Aaao baby tumhay estar banaye. Lo yeh Bandh Gobi...aur imagine karo yeh tumhara dil hai. Thoda Emotion  dalo. Aur thoda sara pout.  From December 1, 1972 issue of Filmfare, this is Jaya Bhaduri in possibly one of Bollywood's freakiest photoshoot ever. Interestingly this was the issue that had Amitabh Bachchan on cover, it was his first ever Filmfare cover. -0-

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Fimfare 1-15 Oct 1981 Topic of discussion was Kalpana Iyer's bare back scene in Armaan(1981), a film about 'Liberation of Goa' (you see, I wasn't kidding, there is a co-relation between skin show in Indian Cinema and Goan liberation ). The article talked about what a 'bare back' meant generally in greater context of Indian culture and in lesser context to censorship in India. 2012-04-19 The news is about some bright people in Calcutta coloring posters in blue ink to cover a 'bare back' so that it becomes less obscene and less provocative . April 17, 2012 Good old Khushwant Singh wants to know  Why sexy films are ‘blue’… not red, yellow or green? and recounts catching one with Good old R.K. Narayan. The reason: "Comparing this notion of prudisness to the expression blue movie (i.e., pornographic films). the later one seems to entail quite an opposite meaning, but it is a metonymy as well, just having gone into a different direction...

Close on heels of  Sharmila Tagore's August Bikini cover , November issue of Filmfare had Mumtaz as beach babe on cover. 1966 was probably the hottest year in India or that was the year Indians profusely thanked Sardar Patel and Nehru, or either one of them, whoever it was, for bringing in Goa into India. -0-

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Zaheera and Shabana are asked in Star & Syle, October 22, 1976

Memsaab in a recent post about film Jaal (1967) asks: Is Biswajeet finally Cool? I think he always tried a bit too hard to be cool. The post made me reach out for my trash can  trash can and digg up this monstrosity. -0- The story goes like this: During the shooting of a film called Anjana Safar (1969) a newcomer named Rekha was slyly kissed by Biswajeet. The scene was captured on camera The film ran into censor troubles, took almost ten years to complete and was finally released as Do Shikari (1979). Meanwhile, the 'kiss scene' was apparently already famous because it made it to the cover of year 1969 Asian edition of Life Magazine, probably for the story 'India's Kissing Crisis' based on hysteria brought forth by release of Khosla Committee Report that claimed "kissing or nudity can't be banned unless a court of law judges it obscene." [ Outlook article from 2001 ]. “No court of law will hold that a kiss by itself, irrespective o...

with the proverbial 'jol-bat'.  just hanging around Jack Wilkes and Indian Women Dress-up, 1945  Life Magazine Archive -0- J J Valaya's Decoded Paradox, 2011 -0- A Sikh Indian door-to-door salesman selling silk ties and cloth to a woman.  U.K. 1930. -0-

The famous Cherry Blossom Ad from late 70s, early 80s featuring model Nandini Sen. Shot by Adrian Steven

Yes, I am still not over it [ in case you missed ]. I read an old reviewer praise her unbelievably 'elastic'  kamar  and bemoan her puffiness prone eyes. -0- -0-

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Famous bed talk. Sharmila Tagore and Soumitra Chatterjee in Apur Sansar (1959) -0- "The wife of popular Bollywood movie star Amitabh Bachhan, Joya Vaduri, before marriage. The image on the cover of Film Fare magazine is of Sharmila Thakur. This image was taken while Joya Vaduri and her friend Sharmila Thakur were shooting in Satyajit Ray's movie ‘Mahanagar’ at Studio No l. The beard and moustache was painted on the face of Sharmila Thakur with pen. The Headline reads “The way I would like to see you.” – Joya. 1963." above image via:  Where Three Dreams Cross:150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan & Bangladesh ,  ( Kashmir too ),  more stuff from this 2010 exhibit . -0-

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