Posted by: Atul on: May 27, 2012
“Hamsaaya”(1968) was produced and directed by Joy Mukherji. This movie had Joy Mukherjee, Sharmila Tagore, Mala Sinha, Rehman, Gajanan Jagirdar, D. K. Sapru, Malika, Madan Puri, Jankidas, Jagdish Kamal, Polson etc in it. This movie had seven songs in it. As many as five of these songs have been discussed in this blog. Here is [...]
Posted by: Atul on: May 8, 2012
“Navratri”(1955) was a Bhagyaudai Pictures Production. it was directed by Raman B Desai. The B grade religious/mythological movie had Manhar Desai, Nirupa Roy, Lalita Pawar, S. N. Tripathi, Sapru, Niranjan Sharma, Babu Raje, Kumkum etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: May 7, 2012
“Kaala Paani” (1958) was a Navketan International Production movie. It was directed by Raj Khosla. the movie had Dev Anand, Madhubala, Nalini Jaywant, Sapru, Agha, Nazir Hussain, Krishan Dhawan, Dhiraj, Mukri, Pravin Paul, Heera Sawant, Bir Sakuja, Kishore Sahu, Rashid Khan etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 28, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. My last few posts have been about songs of the 1970s. As I’ve explained before, this is only because I find it easier to talk about that decade. Some golden-era film and music lovers may [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 28, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This time I have found a very rare duet sung by Asha Bhonsle and Mohammed Rafi. It is from the film “Minister”(1959). The song is written by Rajendra Krishan and composed by Madan Mohan. I [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 28, 2012
In Hindi movies of the golden era, there was this common enough situation where the lead pair would carry out their romantic pursuits silently without even talking, and obviously without even singing a song. So what would happen in such circumstances ? Very conveniently, a two to three persons troupe would appear on the road [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 23, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. The regular visitors to this blog must have noticed that we are seeing more Asha Bhosle songs posted in the blog nowadays than anybody else’s. The reason is that she is heading towards reaching a [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 20, 2012
“Mahua” (1969) was a reincranation story and quite an ambitious one at that. Here the hero and heroine undergo not one, but two reincarnations each. It is obviously difficult to keep track of the comlicated plot, not just for the moviegoers, for for the moviemakers too. So the end result was a confused and confusing [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 19, 2012
“Pyaar Ka Bandhan” (1963) was an N S Films Production. It was produced and directed by Naresh Saigal. The movie had Raaj Kumar, Nishi, Kumari Naaz, Dhumal, Indira Bansal, Helen, Johnny Walker, Mahendra, Jagdish Raj, Raju, Radheshyam, Sudesh Kumar, C. S. Aasie, Hari Mehta, Munshi Munakka, Pratima Devi, Kewal Kumar etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 19, 2012
I had neither heard this song nor the name of the movie this song is from. Name of the movie is “Road No 303″ (1960). YT, whose information is always required to be taken with a pinch of salt, mentions the year as 1963. This B grade movie was a Mahesh Pictures production and it [...]
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