Posted by: Atul on: January 31, 2012
“King Kong” (1962) was a Santosh Productions movie. It was produced by Devi Sharma and directed by Babubhai Mistry. This B grade movie had Dara Singh and Kumkum in lead roles, with Parveen Choudhary, Leela Misra, Kamal Mehra, Uma Dutt, King Kong, Chandrashekhar etc also figuring in the movie.
Posted by: Atul on: January 31, 2012
“Laal Kunwar” (1952) , by now a forgotten movie, was an N V M Productions movie. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. Starcast of the movie included names like Nasir Khan, Suraiyya, Jairaj, Usha Kiran, Agha, Durga Khote etc.
Posted by: Atul on: January 31, 2012
“Ek Dil Sau Afsaane” (1963) was a Talwar pictures presentation. It was produced and directed by R C Talwar. Starcast of the movie included names like Raj Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Lalita Pawar, Mridula, Sulochana Chatterji, Sadhana Choudhry, Vishwa Mehra etc.
Posted by: Atul on: January 31, 2012
It is not just I, but the regulars of this blog too keep coming across rare musical gems from Hindi movies. Here is what Khyati Bhatt, a regular contributor to this blog, discovered recently. Like her, I too believe that this song has to be one of the most remarkable songs that Talat Mehmood has [...]
Posted by: Atul on: January 31, 2012
This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Since Jan 31st, 2012 is the 7th death anniversary of Suraiya (Suraiya Jamal Sheikh), here is a song to remember a beautiful actress.
Posted by: Atul on: January 31, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Janaury 31st is the death anniversary of Suraiyya who was India’s greatest female singer-actor of the post-partition period. While reading her profile and biography, I felt that her life had twists and tales worthy [...]
Posted by: Atul on: January 30, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. A wonderful gem of a song from Mukesh ji. The film is ‘Holiday in Bombay’, a 1963 production from the banner of Yug Chhaayaa, Bombay, and is directed by PL Santoshi. The actor credits includes [...]
Posted by: Atul on: January 30, 2012
Hindi movies has one genre of song that I call Villain’s den song. In this song, hero or his accomplices enter villain’s hideout in disguise while singing a song. Another genre of song related to villain’s den song is “diversion” song. In this a female accomplices sings and dances and the villains minnows are easily [...]
Posted by: Atul on: January 30, 2012
“Ganga Ki Saugandh” (1978) is a Sultan Productions movie. It was produced and directed by Sultan Ahmad. Starcast of the movie included names like Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Amjad Khan, Farida Jalal,Bindu, I.S.Johar, Anwar Hussain, Ifthekar, Jagdeep, Anju Mahendru, Master Shetty, Tabrez, Shetty, Mukhri, Pran,Jeevan, Nana Palshikar, Achala Sachdev, Sulochana Latkar, Satyen Kappu, ParoDevi, Reddy, Fazloo,Nazir [...]
Posted by: Atul on: January 30, 2012
When I look at the lyrics of this song, I feel that I have come across the lyrics of this song, and perhaps this song was among one of the guest posts by Sudhir jee. But when I check up with the list of songs that have been posted, I am unable to find this [...]
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