Posted by: Atul on: May 25, 2012
“Dharti Kahe Pukaar Ke” (1969) was a Vaishaali Pictures presentation. It was directed by Dulal Guha. The movie had Nanda, Jeetendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Nivedita, Abhi Bhattacharya, Kanhaiyalal, Tarun Bose, Asit Sen, Leela Misra, A. K. Hangal, Manmohan, Tiwari, Durga Khote, Jagdev etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 27, 2012
“Footpath”(1953) was a Ranjit Movie Company Production. It was directed by Zia Sarhadi. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari, Anwar Hussein, Ramesh Thapar, Achla Sachdev, Ramesh Thakur, Kuldip Kaur, Akhtar Farooqui, P. Kailash, Jankidas, Maruti, Sumati Lajmi etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 20, 2012
“Amar” (1954) was a Mehboob Productions movie. It was produced and directed by Mehboob Khan. The movie had Nimmi, Dilip Kumar, Madhubala, Jayant, Ulhas, Mukri, Amar, Shakeel Nomani, Husn Banu, Murad etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 9, 2012
There have been several movies titled “Laila Majnu”. The movie of this name released in 1953 had very young Nutan and Shammi Kapoor in title roles. This movie also had some nice songs in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 6, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. In my native place in Mangalore district (and perhaps other places in India specially in villages), it was a tradition in almost every house that all family members would assemble in the Pooja Room [...]
Posted by: Atul on: March 31, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. I was not aware of the film MERA SALAAM (1957) until few days back when I came across while searching for some songs on a website. This was a period film produced under the [...]
Posted by: Atul on: March 30, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. The past two three weeks have been somehow overtly busy and a run around for me, and I must apologize that I have not been very regular in writing and posting. Just too many things [...]
Posted by: Atul on: March 19, 2012
I am aware of the movie “Laila Majnu” (1976) but I was not aware that a movie called “Daastaan e Laila Majnu” was released two years prior to that. This movie, viz. “Daastaan e Laila Majnu” (1974) was obviously a B grade movie.It was produced and directed by R L Desai. Starcast of the movie [...]
Posted by: Atul on: March 14, 2012
I have discussed as many as six songs from “Shree 420″ (1955) but it seems that a few songs from this movie are yet to be discussed.
Posted by: Atul on: January 30, 2012
“Dulaari” (1949) is today mainly rememebered as the movie which calapulted Rafi to the big league with his by now iconic song Suhaani raat dhal chuki. This movie had other nice songs in it as well. As many as five songs from this movie have been discussed in the blog.
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