Posted by: Atul on: April 20, 2011
I am aware of the better known songs of “Rani Roopmati” (1959), but this movie had other nice songs in it too, as I have been discovering these days.
Posted by: Atul on: April 18, 2011
I have discussed three of the better known songs from this movie. Now I have become aware of a few other songs of this movie too thanks to nahm.
Posted by: Atul on: April 18, 2011
“Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan” (1959) is a Mythological/historical movie which had actors like Jairaj,Anita Guha,Ulhas,Sapru,B M Vyas, Chand Usmani,Sundar etc in it. Topicwise/ budgetwise, it was a B grade movie. So naturally it follows that the music of this movie must be A grade.
Posted by: Atul on: April 18, 2011
The B grade movie “Rani Roopmati” (1959), and especially its music had managed to get over its B grade tag and had managed to catch the eyes and ears of the movie goers and the music lovers. A few songs of this movie captured the imagination of the public.
Posted by: Atul on: April 18, 2011
“Oonchi Haweli” (1955) is an obscure movie by now. Few information seems to be available about this movie except that this movie had actors like Karan Dewan,,Nirupa Roy,Bhagwan,Lalita Pawar, B M Vyas etc in it. This movie was produced by Sharad Production and it was directed by Dhirubai Desai.
Posted by: Atul on: April 18, 2011
“Narsimha Avtaar” (1949), as the name suggests, was a religious/ mythological movie. This movie was produced by Minerva Movietone. It was directed by Sohrab Modi and it had actors like Laxman, Niranjan Sharma, Shobhana Samarth,Mahipal,Tiwari,Madan Mohan,Hari Shivdasani,Kamal etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 17, 2011
We often read about real life following reel life and vice versa. I am not talking about movie actors playing roles based on some other real life people. I am talking of the actors playing their own real life stories on the silver screen.There have been quite a few cases where actors enacted their own [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 17, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog. Here is another gem of a song from the 1964 movie Hameer Hatth. This is a semi classical composition, rendered so well by Manna Dey. The composoition is by Sanmukh Babu Upadhyaya, and the beautiful [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 17, 2011
“Kavi Kalidas” (1959) is a movie in which Bharat Bhushan played the title role of Kalidas, the great Saskrit poet of the middle ages.
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