Posted by: Atul on: April 6, 2012
If a movie title has nouns like “Behan”,”Bahu”, Bhabhi” etc in it preceded by adjectives like “Badi”, “Chhoti” etc then one can safely conclude that sacrificing characters lie ahead in the movie and unless one is masochistic in nature, one needs to steer clear of such movies.
Posted by: Atul on: November 28, 2011
“Bhagwaan Parshuram”(1970) is a B grade mythological movie. It is a Mewar Films International presentation. It was directed by Babubhai Mistry. The cast of the movie included names like Abhi Bhattacharya, Jaishree Gadkar, Sunder, Niranjan Sharma, Jeevan, Trilok Kapoor, Raj Kumar, Tabassum, Tuntun,etc.
Posted by: Atul on: July 31, 2011
“Ye Dil Kisko Doon” (1963) is not a well known movie as far as I am concerned. This movie had Shashi Kapoor and Raagini in it. May be that has something to do with the obscurity of this movie.
Posted by: Atul on: April 8, 2011
“Navrang” (1958) is a song that is well known for its songs. I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from this movie. I was not aware of this till a few hours ago.
Posted by: Atul on: February 27, 2011
“Bilwamangal” (1954) is a movie that was made on the life of the blind poet of middle ages, namely Surdas, and the title role of Surdas was played by K C Dey, who himself was blind, just like Surdas.
Posted by: Atul on: February 17, 2011
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of writeups to this blog For a Bollywood old-song buff like me, one of the biggest pleasures of checking out youtube is to discover new “old” songs. Over the years I have not just listened to hundreds of [...]
Posted by: Atul on: February 10, 2011
“Naadaan” (1951) is a movie starring Dev Anand and Madhubala.
Posted by: Atul on: February 8, 2011
Romantic songs/love songs are one of the most common form of songs in Hindi movies. It can be seen that many of these songs use high sounding grandiose words, whose meanings often escape the common listeners.
Posted by: Atul on: February 8, 2011
Listening to Hemant Kumar’s voice is a divine experience. Listening to songs sung by him has a soothing effect on the listeners. I call such songs “mental massage” songs.
Posted by: Atul on: December 14, 2010
Songs in the old days were often like works of art that were carefully crafted by master craftsmen. Their artistry resulted in masterpieces that needed to be admired.
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