This year was just like any other year. 

The Government's taxes continued to increase, stars wives (actresses or otherwise) continued to have babies unmarried stars continued to marry or get engaged film parties continu ed to consume gallons of whisky

Dimple Khanna, Raakhee, Jaya Bhaduri,Moushumi Chatterjee and Babita Kapoor gave birth to a baby each all girls

Mumtaz was married at a simple func tion but the reception was crowded, Waheeda Rehman and Simi Garewal got married (without any hangama) to Kamaljeet and Ravindra Mohan respectively Goldie beamed with happiness when he brought Love leen over to Bombay as his shy bride aher a swilt marriage in Poona. Ha had already retired (partly) from films and he madd Loveleen retire (fully)

Jeetu, who had earlier hit the head- lines when news leaked about his forthcoming marriage to Hema (which didn't take place), got quietly marri ed to Shobha Sippy, his steady date. in October this year. Leena Chanda varkar and Bhavna Bhatt got engaged and announced their decision to quit

As if to compensate, we had a bumper crop of new heroines. The 1973 batch of Institute girls (Shabana, Za rina, Neelam, Rita, Ritu) was specially good But Sulakshana beat Everybody in the race by bagging 40 assignments in just a few months. The top heroines today are Hema, Zeenat and Rekha- in that order. 

Sunil Dutt staged a terrific comeback (notwithstanding his statement. What coming back? I had never gone Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Rajesh Khanna and Jeetendra have also become hot favourites. After "Victoria No. 203". "Dharma" and "Bobby" became big hits the indus- try suddenly developed a lot of res- pect for veterans and Pran and Premnath reached newer heights of stardom Veterans Surendranath, Jalraj and Trilok Kapoor also began to get roies after a long time. But the man of the year was undoubtedly Garam Dharam with 8 successive hits (Jugnu, Yaadon Ki Baaraat, Loafer, Kahani Kismet, Do Chor, Samadhi, Jwar Bhata, Keemat). 

poor The title "India's Greatest