Amol Palekar

Hindi Cinema is more concentrated towards commercial prospects rather than its content, filmmaker Amol Palekar said on Sunday. "Soon after a movie is released, everyone speaks of box office collection. Nobody is bothered about the quality of the content," the director told reporters after his movie DHOOSAR (BLURRED) was premiered at the on-going International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2010. The director lamented that when people speak of Indian Cinema; they sideline oth...

The era of the seventies, where mostly action oriented films worked and just one name, Amitabh Bachchan, the angry young man ruled the roost, also saw actor par excellence, Amol Palekar winning the hearts of the audience with his middle class, common man act. The continuous struggle with life, its ups and downs and fight against the system to achieve a simple objective, survival, was portrayed perfectly by Amol, sometimes through hard hitting films like GHARONDA and at times in a...

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Surprisingly, the winner of three Filmfare and six state awards for Best Actor said he had "butterflies in his stomach right till the last day" of the films shoot.

After directing three super-flop Bollywood films, Amol Shegte too has headed towards Bhojpuri films.In the film, Ravi Kishan plays a double role of identical twins, Ravi and Kishan, who demonstrate different traits inspite of a similar face.

By Seema Mumbai, Sept.27 : India has selected the Hindi film "Paheli" (Puzzle), a folklore on women empowerment, to represent the country at the 2006 Academy Awards. The film will would vie for top honours at the Best Foreign Film category.

Amol Palekar, the talented actor turned director is excited about his forthcoming film ‘Quest’. Base...

The prolific actor-director talks about his latest Marathi film, his take on co-actor Sharmila Tagore and how hes glad that regional cinema seems to be going places.

Palekars film Maati Maay gets raves at the festival.