Homages

Legendary Suchitra Sen

A short Homage to Legendary Suchitra Sen

Super star of Bengali films and actress in Hindi films, the name itself spelled magic. Folks don’t go by the negative grapevines of her days as Super star in Bengali films with many escapades and misadventures with the then other male super stars (top name was of Uttam Kumar) in Bengal. The positive attributes and talents the Late Suchitra Sen possessed as a person were admirable.

A Tribute/Homage to legendary actor Pran - 12 February, 1920 - 12 July, 2013

This writer was in Rome on 12 July2013 when he heard of Pran saabs sad demise. Asap, I wrote the following ribute/homage to this great actor -gentelman

and published it on Facebook .Same is reproduced here :

About Author

Mohan Siroya - the owner, editor and writer of shadowplayindia.com,

MR. MOHAN SIROYA, academically a double post graduate, has been freelancing as a FILM JOURNALIST / CRITIC for last 40 years. He has been a prolific writer, having written critical articles, features, reviews etc. on Films, Music and TV in numerous English periodicals in India like The Indian Express, Film Fare, Film World, Picture Post, Cine Advance, Screen, The Hitavada, Lokmat Times, The Twin City Times, Film Industry Journal, Day After, Femina, Eve’s Weekly, Free Press Journal, Blitz etc.

Presently he is a regular columnist for a couple of journals and the Founder, Editor, Writer, Critic of the journal SHADOW PLAY. So far Mr. Siroya has written about 7000 articles on films. He is the founder president of FREELANCE FILM JOURNALISTS COMBINE (FFJC), a registered association of Freelance film journalists all over India.