Posted by: Atul on: November 24, 2011
“Narsinh Avtaar” (1949) was a Minerva Movietone presentation. It was directed by Sohrab Modi. The movie had names like Mahipal, Laxman, Hari Shivdasani, Tiwari, Niranjan Sharma, Shobhana Samarth, Madan Mohan, Kamal etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: November 24, 2011
“Khidki” (1948) is a movie which was produced by Arvind and Anand, and it was directed by P L Santoshi. The star cast included names like Rehana, Jawahar Kaul, V. H. Desai, Kalpana, Radha Krishnan, Leela Misra, Ramsingh, Mumtaz Ali, Tiwari etc.
Posted by: Atul on: November 23, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Gulzar, a name that will bring to mind poems and songs of unsullied beauty and edifying simplicity. A play on words that sound commonplace, and yet the meaning and the message they carry are so [...]
Posted by: Atul on: November 23, 2011
“Midnight” (1972) is a movie that apparently never got completed. Not much is known about this movie today. A few songs of this movie were already recorded before the movie was shelved midway. Fortunately, some of these songs have reached the public domain and we have access to these songs.
Posted by: Atul on: November 23, 2011
“Mr X” (1957) is a movie which was a Sippy Films presentation and it was directed by Nanabhai Bhatt. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaiwant, Pran, Nishi, Rajen Kapoor, Leela Misra, Sheela Vaz, Amirbai Karnataki, Hari Shivdasani, Helen, Johnny Walker etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: November 23, 2011
“Anarkali” (1953) is a musical blockbuster which has great songs following one after another. The music of this movie is composed by C Ramchandra.
Posted by: Atul on: November 23, 2011
Raj Kapoor and Nargis formed one of the most memorable pairs in the history of Hindi movies. This pairing began in late 1940s, and lasted for just under one decade, when Nargis married Sunil Dutt and settled into a life of domestic bliss.
Posted by: Atul on: November 23, 2011
“Hamaari Beti” (1950) was a Shobhana Samarth Production movie. She had produced and directed this movie as a launching pad for her eldest daughter, viz Nutan.
Posted by: Atul on: November 23, 2011
“Zevrat”(1949) was a Habib Productions movie. It was produced and directed by Habib Sarhadi. The movie had Shanta Pawar, Masood, Meena, Yakub, Jayant etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: November 22, 2011
There are some songs that I heard in my younger days and liked them without having much clue about their details. with time, these songs were forgotten. I have become reacquainted with several of these songs again after a passage of three decades or so. And I am not the only one. Several readers of [...]
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