# Rekha's Marriage

In the ongoing series of posting interesting and nostalgic articles from old filmy magazines here is presented a article which appeared in Filmfare magazine of 1990 on Rekha marriage with Mukesh Agarwal,owner of Hotline Appliances.This tongue teaser,hyped and surprise marriage ended tragically with the suicide of Mukesh in mysterious circumstances,which only added mysterious flavor to Rekha's personality.

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# Nandan

Yesterday while fiddling through some old magazines of my collection i came across with some early issues of Nandan,a children magazine,which i hope many of you must be remembering to have had read in your childhood as do i.
Nandan was a Hindustan Times publication which was started in November 1964 in fond memory of India's very first prime minister Mr.Jawaharlal Nehru and hence its very first issue was dedicated to this late prime minister.

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Naveen Nischol

Few days back veteran actor Naveen Nischol passed away due to heart attack when he was traveling with his friend Randhir Kapoor from Mumbai to Pune.A lot of have been printed and said about him as obituary in print media,so instead of repeating what have already been said about him i am posting a interview of him which appeared in a magazine after success of his very first movie 'Sawan Bhadon'(1970).

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# Marvellous Madhubala

If its asked that who was the most beautiful actress of Hindi cinema then the name of Madhubala would come up arguably.I know few may not agree with it but most of them will be probably from the post Madhubala era,though i also got born after Madhubala's demise(1971) but this didn't prevented me from getting smitten by her beauty bug.

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# Disco Dancer:A Book Review

Few days back when i came to know about the three books published in Film Series by Harper Collins from a friend Arun,i was eager to have them in my collection as all three were written upon the movies which are among my best favorites,i.e,'Deewar,Disco Dancer & Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron'.

The very same day i placed a order on Flipkart for all the three books and today evening i received one of these which was 'Disco Dancer-A comedy in Five Acts' authored by Anuvab Pal. 

 

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# Winner Of Anniversary Quiz

Friends the time limit for quiz of 4th Anniversary post has ended yesterday and its time now to declare the name of winner along with answers but before that let me put up the Hindi covers of Volume 20 of Indrajal comics which were supposed to be posted in previous post but were left behind due to shortage of time.

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# 4th Anniversary Post

Friends,4th February this year Comic World completes four year of its journey which commenced on 4th of Feb.2007,which indeed is a long time for a blog and specially for a comic blog as its quite difficult to maintain the same enthusiasm and pace of posting with comics throughout the year(s).

Though this blog was brought into picture primarily to share Indrajal comics and memories related with comics with other fellow comic lovers but with due course of time it managed to share information about comics,movies and other interesting topics and prolonged its life.

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# The Biggest Mistake

Friends though its a comic blog but it doesn't mean that we can't discuss something serious  over here,in fact we can occasionally when a need arises to do so and today there is something which is not comical,i wish to share and discuss with all of you.
Well friends i have heard a lot of about partition that it was a biggest mistake committed ever till now,i have also heard that millions of peoples suffered a lot as they were forced to be uprooted from their base,they were forced to leave their relatives,friends
and their homeland because of a sheer nonsense and scary drama(unfortunately which was real) which took place only because of few power centers(rather peoples) who were not ready to budge a single millimeter from their positions of greed,who were not
ready to accept a second place in greedy power politics.

 

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# एक डायरेक्टर की मौत!

दोस्तों मौत दो तरह की होती है,एक जिस्म की और दूसरी कला की.जिस्म की मौत के बाद भी इन्सान अपनी कला के ज़रिये हमेशा जी सकता है लेकिन कला की मौत के बाद वो सिर्फ सांस लेता हुआ मामूली इन्सान की तरह जीता रह जाता है.

इस श्रृंखला की पहली पोस्ट में हम बात करेंगे कुछ ऐसे निर्देशकों की जिनका शरीर तो जिंदा है लेकिन उनकी कला पता नहीं कहाँ खो गई है,वो ज़िंदा भी है या नहीं इसकी भी अब तक कोई ख़बर नहीं.
इस चर्चा में पहला नाम है मशहूर लेखक-निर्देशक गुलज़ार के सहायक रह चुके चंद्रशेखर नार्वेकर उर्फ़ 'एन.चन्द्रा' का जिन्होंने सिल्वर स्क्रीन पर अपनी धमाकेदार उपस्थिति का ऐलान किया था 1986 में फिल्म 'अंकुश' के द्वारा जिसमे उन्होंने लेखक,संपादक और सह-निर्माता की तिहरी भूमिका निभाई थी.

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# Highlights of 4th Anniversary Post

Friends as you all know that Comic World is going to complete four years of blogging and will enter into 5th year of its existence on February 4th,to celebrate this occasion a special post is being prepared which will contain loads of rare comics(as expected) and many other features such as articles supported by in depth analysis of comic,brain storming quizzes,vintage ads from vintage and rare magazines and much much more.
At this point of time i only wish to announce that 4th anniversary post will also containing the famous Inspector Azad strip,'Daud',by Abid Surti and Pratab Mulick.
Well,friends 'Daud' is that particular strip by which showman Rajkapoor was very much impressed and decided to make a movie on it but unfortunately due to some unavoidable circumstance the movie couldn't be canned of. 
The scan posted below is a part of 'Daud' which was been published serially by The Illustrated Weekly Of India,have a look.

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