Posted by: Atul on: April 21, 2012
“Amar” (1954) was a Mehboob Productions movie. It was directed by Mehboob Khan. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Nimmi, Madhubala, Jayant, Ulhas, Mukri, Amar, Shakeel Nomani, Husn Banu, Murad etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: August 29, 2011
“Darbaar” (1955) is a B grade movie produced by Golden Movies and directed by N Vakil. This movie had such B grade big names as Mahipal,Chitra,Kammo, Tiwari,Sundar etc. in it
Posted by: Atul on: August 7, 2011
“Madhur Milan”(1955) is an obscure B grade movie and little is known about this movie. This movie apparently had Nigar Sultana and Mahipal in lead roles.
Posted by: Atul on: July 5, 2011
“Pugree” (1948) is a movie that had Amar, Wasti, Kamini Kaushal, Dikshit,Shashikala, Gope, Pratima Devi, Ram Avtaar etc in it. This movie had some nice songs in it which were sung by Mukesh, Sitara Kanpuri and Shamshad Begam. I have so far discussed three songs from this movie.
Posted by: Atul on: March 31, 2011
I have often mentioned that the Hindi that one got to listen to in Hindi movies is not the same that I studied in my Hindi classes during my school days. The Hindi taught in the school was chaste Hindi whose vocabulary was mainly derived from Sanskrit. The Hindi,as used by Government of India is [...]
Posted by: Atul on: March 18, 2011
Hindi movies have several songs of the genre where the hero has a broken heart aften being betrayed in love. This genre of songs often tend to become repetitive after a while as far as their lyrics are concerned. The phrase “Toota huaa dil” viz “broken heart” often figures mandatorily in these songs.If one has [...]
Posted by: Atul on: February 23, 2011
“Goonj” (1952) is a forgotten movie about which little details are available now. This movie had Suraiyya and Suresh in it.
Posted by: Atul on: February 18, 2011
Most people are aware of the movie called “Nadiya Ke Paar” (1982) which was a Rajshree Productions movie. There was another movie of the same name that was released as far back as in 1948. This movie “Nadiya Ke Paar” (1948) was in fact a bigger budget movie and a mainstream movie unlike “Nadiya Ke [...]
Posted by: Atul on: October 29, 2010
Not too many people are aware of this movie called “Jalpari” (1952). But I have found that this movie has some superb songs in it.
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