Candy is dandy

All I can think of when I look at Filmindia magazines, especially the covers and color plates inside, is candy.

Glorious, gLoRiOus CANDY!

I’ll bet this movie swings more towards tears than laughter, although having Kishore in there is a good sign.

Nutan looking very…unlike Nutan.

Here she is in Baarish:

I haven’t seen that much of Anita Guha, mostly because I don’t really love mythologicals, I guess, but—

CANDY!

Baburao’s snark only adds to the fun. LOL at “the Glaxo Food look”.

He is always kind of mean to poor Shammi, but I think she looks beautiful here!

And this caption made me guffaw, although I do feel Baburao lacks the proper appreciation for elegant capri pants and slim-fitting sweaters. Also his talk of chopping and bandaging made me cringe a wee bit.

CANDY!

Images from the May and June 1956 issues of Filmindia.

Posted on April 27, 2012 at 3:48 pm in Baburao Patel's Poisonous Pen, Hindi movies | RSS feed You can skip to the end and leave a reply.

Tags: Anita Guha, Baarish, Baburao Patel, Bhai Bhai, candy glorious candy, Chitra, Filmindia magazine, Minoo Mumtaz, Nutan, Shammi, Shashikala

33 Comments to “Candy is dandy”

yves
April 27, 2012 at 5:40 pm

Hi Greta,
When you unearth unknown pictures of Nutan, you MUST send me a message! Wow, amazing! And the caption “Youth has some excitingly buxom angles, and Nutan has quite a few of them”: How can anyone write such trashy comments?! Where do you find these pictures? Are there dedicated sites for Filmindia posters? I have a whole book of B’wood posters, and not one shows Nutan.
Thanks for the candy. Now I’ll have to go and brush my teeth again.

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- memsaab
  April 27, 2012 at 7:19 pm
  
  Filmindia was a magazine published from the mid-30s to the early 60s…the editor was Baburao Patel, and he didn’t much hold back his thoughts however prurient :D
  
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Joelette
April 27, 2012 at 6:02 pm

Whoa, I am swooning over that Nutan photo!

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- memsaab
  April 27, 2012 at 7:21 pm
  
  She’s a babe, there is no doubt about it! She was probably all of 17 years old or something too.
  
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siva parvati
April 27, 2012 at 8:18 pm

very cool, thanks for sharing..interesting about that whole “Mother India” angle with Nehru’s name thrown in, although Nehru lived very “western” at home, something baburao probably wanted to ignore..

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- memsaab
  April 28, 2012 at 11:19 am
  
  Baburao loved to go on and on and on about politics, for which he seemed largely disdainful (well, he was disdainful of most things bless him). I also find it difficult to know when he’s being sarcastic or not. But he is always funny.
  
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Karan Bali
April 27, 2012 at 10:15 pm

Brilliant as always, memsaab! Nutan would have been around 20 then. Incidentally, I have some lovely lobby cards of Baarish.

Oh and here is a little background to Filmindia for those interested. http://www.upperstall.com/blogs/punjab-da-puttar/thus-wrote-filmindia/

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- memsaab
  April 28, 2012 at 11:19 am
  
  I still love that post Karan :) Great quotes.
  
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sidharthbhatia
April 28, 2012 at 1:29 am

Many of the paintings were executed by an artist called Pandit. The colors are glorious and the actresses nice and buxom

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- memsaab
  April 28, 2012 at 11:21 am
  
  Pandit and DB Neroy as well, who did calendar art that was beautiful too…(re: actresses—precursors for Photoshop, would you say?) :D
  
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kenjn60
April 28, 2012 at 8:54 am

Thanks so much for sharing these lovely and intriguing pictures… was just listening to the songs from “Bhai-Bhai” yesterday

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- memsaab
  April 28, 2012 at 11:22 am
  
  Do they swing between tears and laughter? :D
  
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mettemk
April 29, 2012 at 11:47 am

I love those old-school pictures! Thanks for sharing.

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- memsaab
  April 29, 2012 at 12:08 pm
  
  You are most welcome :)
  
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A.R
April 29, 2012 at 4:22 pm

Ey..these are great! Baburao was a right poison pen…I’d hate to have had to work with him in the office! These colour magazine’s must have cost yonks in them days – I most certainely would have bought them though! ;-)

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Shampa
April 29, 2012 at 5:00 pm

Bhai bhai had a lot of laughter as well. Shyama starred in it and lip synched to geeta dutt’s “aye dil mujhe bata de”. nirupa of course shed her usual quota of tears but the rest of the movie was pretty entertaining!

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Shashi
April 30, 2012 at 6:20 am

Just now got to know Achala Sachdev passed away today. May her soul RIP….

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- memsaab
  April 30, 2012 at 10:25 am
  
  Awwwww :(
  
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- Gaby
  April 30, 2012 at 1:38 pm
  
  I remember seeing her for the first time in Raj Kapoor’s Sangam and then in several Yash Chopra films of the 80’s and 90’s…she had a long and graceful career which will never fade as long as her films remain in print…she shall be sadly missed always…RIP
  
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Shalini
April 30, 2012 at 7:31 am

Oh, the pretty! Excellent start for the work week. :-)

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- memsaab
  April 30, 2012 at 10:25 am
  
  :) Yes indeed!
  
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Ollie H.
April 30, 2012 at 11:38 am

Indian culture has always been colorful, it shows in their films, fashion and other crafts they do which makes it very interesting.

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Gaby
April 30, 2012 at 1:45 pm

Bhai Bhai is easily one of my favourite films simply because the music was scored by my favourite composer, Madan Mohan saheb…
…i wonder what was Baburao Patel thinking when he penned such an acidic comment about poor Shashikala…i really wonder how did his poison pen react to the 2-piece bikini worn by Sharmila Tagore more than a decade later… =P

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Ranjana
May 6, 2012 at 12:20 pm

Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful pictures! :) Baburao’s comments are interesting in some bits and infuriating in some others….and that chopping and bandaging bit honestly made me want to mummify him in a saree!

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- memsaab
  May 6, 2012 at 12:48 pm
  
  Yes, well he was a man of his time :D
  
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bademiyuu
May 7, 2012 at 8:43 pm

How come Baarish is mentioned in May 1956 in that Nutan photo? I thought it was released in 1957? Isn’t that weird?

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- memsaab
  May 8, 2012 at 9:51 am
  
  The same ads run for months in these magazines, I would imagine it was pre-publicity :)
  
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vasishtgopalka
August 5, 2012 at 1:55 pm

hey , i was suprised to see that someone still has these magazines,by any chance would you be able to have access to the filmindia issue of 1935 to 1937?

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- memsaab
  August 5, 2012 at 2:05 pm
  
  No, I have some from the 40s/50s but that’s it. They are very hard to find.
  
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  - vasishtgopalka
    August 5, 2012 at 2:17 pm
    
    thank you .would you know of where even the content would be available even if not the original magazine ?
    
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shreya
April 24, 2013 at 1:26 pm

from where did you get these magazines?How can I get access to them?I really want them or any other old issues of filmfare magazines.Please help me out.

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Ashok Sridharan
October 21, 2013 at 8:37 am

Interesting to see a mention of Dev Anand’s Baarish here. I chanced upon a print of the movie on piratebay a couple of years ago. I’ve uploaded it on youtube- you can check it out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGBZJIS2H_I

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Anonymous
February 16, 2014 at 4:30 am

Great pictures… Any chance that you have the December 1950 issue!? Would love to see that. It has a picture of a beautiful actress called Meena Shorey. Keep up the great work Mem.

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