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In his memoir One Train Later, Andy Summers, the guitarist for the legendary rock band The Police, recounts how he was mesmerised by Piya Tose Naina Lage Naa, sung by Lata Mangeshkar in the 1965 classic movie, Guide.

Summers, who published his brilliantly written, it is entirely in the present tense, and filled with wit, humour, and admirable grasp of the nuances of storytelling, memoir two years ago, describes how he heard the song at the end of the sixties on acid.

He described that Lata’s voice as incomparable, and notes that he was so enamoured with the song, composed by Sachin Dev Burman, that he recorded it with British Asian singer Najma Akhtar later in his career.
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Bollywood great actor Amrish Puri could never live down his Mogambo image in Mr. India (1987). This is his evil priest role in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was simply another exaggerated and more grotesque Mogambo.

Mogambo khush hua was eccentric evil incarnate in colourful Bollywood cinema. In this movie, he wore outlandish clothes, made his eyes as big as saucers, threatened hapless victims into submission and then chortled out loud Mogambo khush hua.
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The quintessential long suffering, patient and gentle mother of Bollywood cinema Nirupama Roy, became immortalized as the ‘ma’ whom Amitabh could not win over with his gari, bari and bungalow.

That single stark statement was brilliantly juxtaposed against Amitabh’s rantings about his material possessions. MERE PAS MA HAI summed up the entire gamut of moral issues that were at stake in the movie.
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This memorable scene is from the classic 1949 film Mahal, which was the debut of Madhubala, one of the legendary actresses of Bollywood .

Madhubala and playback singer Lata Mangeshkar have started her career from the film Mahal (1949). Ashok Kumar was in the lead role of a lawyer Hari Shankar, who was suffering from a nervous breakdown. Hari decides to retire to the abandoned ancestral old Moghul palace known as the Shabnam Mahal.
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