Posted by: Atul on: May 22, 2012
“Taara” (1949) is an extremely obscure movie by now. This movie was a New Bombay Theatre Production. It was directed by R D Pareenja. The movie had Shyama, Jawahar Kaul, Kuldip, Majnu, Nayantara, Chand Burque etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: May 20, 2012
“Shera Daaku” (1966) was a B grade movie. It was produced by Laxmichitra Productions and directed by Radhakant. The movie had Randhawa, Sheikh Mukhtar, Nishi, Amar, Rajen Kapoor, Sunder etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 30, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. For many years now, and please correct me if I am making this statement in error – for many years now, I do not recall having seen or heard about a film on mythological theme [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 27, 2012
“Footpath”(1953) was a Ranjit Movie Company Production. It was directed by Zia Sarhadi. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari, Anwar Hussein, Ramesh Thapar, Achla Sachdev, Ramesh Thakur, Kuldip Kaur, Akhtar Farooqui, P. Kailash, Jankidas, Maruti, Sumati Lajmi etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 26, 2012
I was looking for a song written by Shailendra for posting in the blog. That is easier said than done because a large number of Shailendra songs have already been discussed and the trick is to locate a song that has not yet been discussed. This search took me into unknown territory in YT. I [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 25, 2012
This blog has songs from nearly 2000 different movies. To put things into perspective, there have been about 6000 movies in all during this period. so one can say that nearly one third of all Hindi movies from 1931 to 1980s are represented in this blog.
Posted by: Atul on: April 22, 2012
“Chamak Chaandni” (1957) is not a movie too many people may be aware of. This obscure movie was a Chitra Bharati Limited production. It was produced by Chimanlal Trivedi and directed by Mani Bhai Vyas. The starcast reads like a B grade movies who is who, viz. Mahipal, Shakila, Tiwari, Chandrashekhar,Maruti, Niranjan Sharma, Helen, Purnima [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 11, 2012
“Ek Thhi Reeta” (1971) is a recent movie by the standards of this blog, yet that has not prevented it from becoming an obscure movie nearly as soon as this movie was released. This movie was produced and directyed by Roop K Shorey. The movie had Vinod Mehra, Rehman, Yogiraj, I. S. Johar, Tanuja, Pompi, [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 9, 2012
There have been several movies titled “Laila Majnu”. The movie of this name released in 1953 had very young Nutan and Shammi Kapoor in title roles. This movie also had some nice songs in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 6, 2012
“Mangu” (1954) was a movie where Md Shafi was the original music director but O P Nayyar managed to get in at the expense of Md Shafi and composed four songs.
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