Posted by: Atul on: April 8, 2012
“Love in Simla” (1960) was Joy Mukherji’s home production and it was the debut movie for Joy Mukherji as well as Sadhana. And what a smashing debut it was for both !
Posted by: Atul on: March 25, 2012
“Dil Diya Dard Liya” (1966) was a Kay Production movie. It was directed by A R Kardar. Star cast of the movie included Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Shyama, Johnny Walker, Murad, Pran, Rehman, Rani, Sajjan, Sapru, Shah Agha etc.
Posted by: Atul on: March 3, 2012
“Ye Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke” (1963) was based on a true incident,namely the case of K M Nanawati, though the makers of this movie issued an disclaimer that all people and incidents depicted in the movie were fictional, which fooled nobody.
Posted by: Atul on: February 24, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Talat Mehmood ( 24-02-1924 – 09-05-1998) and the song ‘ tasveer teri dil mera behalaa naa sakegi’ are synonymous. I was under the impression that this song was from a film. But after getting [...]
Posted by: Atul on: February 19, 2012
“Gyaarah Hazaar Ladkiyaan” (1962) was a movie which was produced by Films Friends and directed by K A Abbas. Starcast of the movie consisted of names viz. Bharat Bhushan, Mala Sinha, Murad, Madhvi, Imtiaz, Nadira, Mukri, Helen, David Abraham, etc.
Posted by: Atul on: December 31, 2011
There are songs for various occasions, like festivals, and also for certain days, viz the first day of the month, but I was not aware that there was a Hindi movie song for the last day of the year too.
Posted by: Atul on: December 4, 2011
“Des Pardes” (1978) was a movie on the theme of NRIs including illegal immigrants. This movie introduced Tina Munim to Hindi movies.This was the first Dev Anand movie that I watched during its initial release.
Posted by: Atul on: November 30, 2011
A few songs from “Suhaag Sindoor” (1961) have been discussed in this blog. The movie was no great shakes and the songs of this movie have also been forgotten, but the songs are decent songs to listen to.
Posted by: Atul on: October 29, 2011
“Raat Aur Din”(1967) was produced by Jaffer Hussain and directed by Satyen Bose. This movie had actors like Nargis,Pradeep Kumar, Feroz Khan, Harin Chattopadhyaya, K. N. Singh, Anwar, Anoop Kumar, Naaz, Leela Misra, Laxmi Chhaaya etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: October 21, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Something providential in the coincident that today is the birth anniversary of two wonderful dancers and performers of the Hindi silver screen. Yes, today, 21st October is the day that both Shammi Kapoor and Helen [...]
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