Posted by: Atul on: April 24, 2012
“Ghar Ki Laaj” (1960) is quite an obscure movie. This movie was a Navkala Niketal Production. It was directed by V M Vyas. The movie had Sohrab Modi, Feroz Khan, Nirupa Roy, Kumkum, Sheela Kashmiri, Johnny Walker etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 13, 2012
“Taqdeer” (1967) was a Rajshree Productions movie about a family that gets separated from its sole breadwinner (Bharat Bhushan) and lives without him. Bharat Bhushan, presumed dead comes back many years later and finds himself a stranger in his own home. It was a moving tale which was nicelty picturised. The songs of this movie [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 11, 2012
“Raakhi” (1962) was a Prabhuiram Pictures production. It was directed by A Bhimsingh.The movie had Ashok Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Pradeep Kumar, Raj Mehra, Randhir, Shivraj, Mohan Choti, Ameeta, Mehmood,Malika, Lalita Pawar etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: March 9, 2012
“Waqt” (1965) was a movie that like most B R Chopra movies rewrote the rules of the game. This movie was a multistarrer movie at a time when this term was not even coined. This term as well as the concept would be made use of in Hindi movies ten years later in “Sholay” (1975) [...]
Posted by: Atul on: February 21, 2012
Om Prakash Chhibber, known only by his first name, viz Om Prakash was born on 19 december 1919 and he died on 21 february 1998. In his four decades long career, he worked in some 307 movies.
Posted by: Atul on: February 8, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. The film “Mere Armaan Mere Sapne” is a 1963 release by Lalit Kala Mandir, Bombay. This film is directed by Arbind Soni. The main star cast includes Pradeep Kumar, Kumari Naaz, Aeem Kumar, Jayshree Gadkar, [...]
Posted by: Atul on: December 16, 2011
Here is a song that should have made it to the blog long time back but somehow it did not. It is a song from my days (viz 1970s) and it was quite an iconic songs of those days.
Posted by: Atul on: November 21, 2011
“Saanjh Aur Sawera” (1964) is a S J Films presentation. It was produced by Sevanti Lal Shah and the movie was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The sar cast included Meena Kumari, Gurudutt, Mehmood, Shubha Khote, Manmohan krishna, Ruby Paul (aka Praveen paul), Padmadevi,Preethi Bala(aka Zeb Rehman),Jagdev,Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Kanu Roy, Rashid Khan etc.
Posted by: Atul on: November 20, 2011
Different people may have different ways of judging movies. I read an old joke in this connection some three decades ago. A Pathan from Afghanistan came to India and looked at a poster of a movie . He was very impressed with the title of the poster and he went to watch that movie. after [...]
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