Posted by: Atul on: September 15, 2011
“Shimla Road” (1969), a Jugal Productions movie directed by Jugal Kishore is an archtypical B grade movie. It had Dev Kumar,Sarita, K N Singh,Maruti, Hiralal, Leela Misra, Murad, Mehmood Junior, Kundan etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: August 16, 2011
Sunday, 14th August 2011 brought us the sad news that Shammi Kapoor was no more. We knew that Shammi Kapoor needed dialysis three times a week and he was wheelchair bound for years, and that he was 79 years old, still this news that came as a shock.
Posted by: Atul on: August 14, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Think of a music director from Punjab, preparing music for a film whose story is set in Bombay. And one of the songs is based on the local folk dance of Maharashtra. And guess what [...]
Posted by: Atul on: August 3, 2011
“Ek Sapera Ek Lutera” (1965) is a movie starring Feroz Khan and Kumkum. This is a B grade movie and like most B grade movies it had some awesome songs in it. The most well known song from this movie is Ham tumse judaa hoke mar jaayenge ro ro ke Here is another song from [...]
Posted by: Atul on: July 1, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Vasant Desai had a fairly long stint of thirty plus years in the film industry, and yet his total assignments as a music director are less than fifty. It is said that he did not take [...]
Posted by: Atul on: October 2, 2010
I have posted as many as five songs from “Ganga Jamuna” (1961) but this movie still has a few songs that need to be posted.
Posted by: Atul on: September 5, 2010
While looking up information about Naushad, I found out that he made his debut as a music director in 1940 in a movie called “Prem Nagar”. In this movie he composed as many as 13 songs. Those are the days when actors themselves used to sing their own songs.
Posted by: Atul on: August 28, 2010
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog As is well-known, Aradhana was THE movie that was the turning point in Rajesh Khanna’s career. However, he did act in a few movies before Aradhana.
Posted by: Atul on: August 14, 2010
On popular demand from several of my readers, I am posting the remaing songs of “Madumati” (1958) these days. I have so far already posted six songs from this movie. Six timeless songs should be more than enough for one movie, but there are more such songs in this movie !
Posted by: Atul on: August 13, 2010
“Shaheed” (1965) was a movie based on Bhagat Singh’s life and most songs were patriotic songs. Even other songs of this movie evoke patriotic fervour, such is the feeling that this movie brings about in its listeners.
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