Amidst a starry ensemble, young Reena Roy cast a spell on audiences with her serpentine turn in and as Nagin. Passion and poison; hers was serious sensuousness… Tere sang pyaar main being the siren call. The fact that the film spawned a series of icchadari nagin protagonists, including Sridevi’s Nagina, …

Tridev (1989) witnessed an unlikely alliance: the paragon of parallel cinema, Naseeruddin Shah, jived with teen sensation Sonam on the now-cult song Oye oye tirchi topiwale song. Inspired by Gloria Estefan’s Rhythm is gonna get you, the number made the unsuspecting Sonam a star overnight. Decades later, the ditty continues …

Few have the privilege of spending their formative years with Lata Mangeshkar. Of the joy of eating food cooked out of her hands. Waking up to her morning ragas along with the choir of the birds. Or even being gifted an idol of Lord Shiva. But Pyarelal of the famed …