Haathi Mere Saathi combined the magic of the marquee with the charisma of a circus. Ramu, the elephant, went that one step ahead of his performing circus counterpart by also weeping, smiling and ...

With each film of his becoming a bigger hit than the one preceding it, [Rajesh] Khanna started believing that he was a king of sorts. But, deep within, he seemed to know that factors unseen and ...

Ram Chander was a likeable man. Inexplicably, he seemed unimaginably old. Every morning, he would bring his cycle-rickshaw, covered from all sides, to take me and a dozen other kids to school. We were ...

Trinity Films, a franchise company tied to Eros Entertainment, helmed by the eminently enterprising Ajit Thakur, is all set to remake the 1971 mega-blockbuster Haathi Mere Saathi. Said to be the ...

The year is 1971, and an unlikely cinematic pair has caught the public’s fancy. Actor Rajesh Khanna and… an elephant. Haathi Mere Saathi (and its catchy title song, ‘Chal, chal, chal, mere haathi, O ...

Oct. 1: Remember Rajesh Khanna crooning Chal chal chal mere haathi to his pet elephant in the seventies’ flick Haathi Mere Saathi? Real life imitated the screen when man and elephant walked in harmony ...