Archive for the ‘fun timepass song’ Category
O madam do se ho gaye ek ham
Posted on: March 7, 2013
“Aashiaana”(1952) was produced by Sabharwals and directed by B Trilochan. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Iftekhar, Mohana, Randhir etc in it.
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Chinchpokli Chinchpokli
Posted on: December 29, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The name of SHABISTAN evokes the memories of a very handsome and jovial actor-SHYAM.
He died during the final scene shooting of this film while riding a horse. Actually, Shyam was an expert rider and the horse was also the same,usual one. Everything was the same but the Time had come for Shyam to go…
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Collecting information from forgotten artists is extremely difficult. First problem is to find them. Many yesteryear actors who are still alive are living in anonymity. People who live around them also may not know their identity, many times. If they are members of CINTAA (Cine and TV Artists’ Association, Mumbai), one may get their addresses, but some actors do not even inform CINTAA, when they shift.
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Babu samjho ishaare horn pukaare
Posted on: October 13, 2012
Today (13 october) is the birth anniverasry of Ashok Kumar as well as the death anniversary of Kishore Kumar. After Kishore Kumar’s death on this day 25 years ago, Ashok Kumar stopped celebrating his birthday, naturally. The two brothers, alongwith their third brother Anup Kumar were quite close to each other and we were privileged to see the three brothers together in all the movies that were produced by Kishore Kumar.
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Today (4 september) is Rishi Kapoor’s birthday. It appears only yesterday that he made his debut as a teenage hero in “Bobby” (1973). But in reality that was 39 years ago ! How time has flown. Now it is his son who is a teenage heartthrob and Rishi Kapoor these days plays old man’s roles.
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Arre wo dene waala
Posted on: August 26, 2012
“Pasand Apni Apni” (1985) was produced and directed by Basu Chatterji. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Utpal Dutt, Rati Agnihotri, Subbiraj, Mithilesh Chaturvedi, Javed Khan, A K Hangal etc in it.
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Wo apni yaad dilaane ko
Posted on: July 1, 2012
“Jugnu” (1947) was a breakthrough movie for Dilip Kumar. The success of this movie transformed Dilip Kumar from a struggler to an established actor.
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Laanat hai aisi muhabbat pe pyaare
Posted on: May 19, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I remember being one of the first few fans of this blog when Atul started it in mid-2008. Being crazy about old Hindi songs, I was very excited that Atul was starting this. His original intention was probably to publish songs of HIS liking here. But then he began getting – and accepting – requests (farmaishes).
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Kaanon ki ek nagri dekhi
Posted on: April 22, 2012
This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In life, every body has a target. We have seen different people choose different routes to reach the same target as they prefer one route over another according to their likings. Target of Atulji’s blog is not to produce another version of HFGK. But to give all hindi film song lovers a chance to cherish songs from different contributors with full lyrics and comments, which is then followed by discussion on the story line of the movies and the artists by our in house encyclopedia, Shri Arunji and others join in.
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“Ek Hi Raasta”(1956) was produced and directed by B R Chopra. As was his wont, this movie too was on a socially progressive theme of widow remarriage which was quite bold for the time and as a result it was a commercially risky proposition for the movie. But B R Chopra pulled it off and the movie became a commercial success and it was critically acclaimed too.
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