Posted by: Atul on: April 26, 2012
“Bade Ghar Ki Bahu” (1960) was produced by J J Puri and directed by Kundan Kumar. The movie had Geeta Bali, Abhi Bhattacharya, Kuldip Kaur, Niranjan Sharma, Sheela Vaz etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 12, 2012
“Nartaki” (1963) was a Film Bharti Production. It was directed by Satyen Nitin Bose. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Nanda, Om Prakash, Agha, Preeti Bala, Nana Palsikar, Chandrima Bhaduri, Moni Chatterjee, Aruna Irani etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: February 16, 2012
“Mem Sahib” (1956) was a lovely movie starring Kishore Kumar, Meena Kumari and Shammi Kapoor. This movie was a fun movie which was great to watch. And the music was wonderful.
Posted by: Atul on: February 9, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Continuing on the sojourn re-discovering and enjoying once again, the melodies created by N Dutta. Here is a lovely piano song, an expression of love and gratitude towards the loved one. On screen the song [...]
Posted by: Atul on: January 18, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. There are some Hindi film songs, especially of early 50s, which have been in my memory bank since childhood and those includes the songs from “Hum Log” (1951). Two songs of this film viz. [...]
Posted by: Atul on: September 25, 2011
“Main Wohi Hoon” (1966) is a B grade movie produced by M M Production. A Shamsheer was the director of this movie. The star cast of the movie included Feroz Khan, Kumkum, Murad, Johnny Walker, I. S. Johar, Madan Puri, Roopesh Kumar etc.
Posted by: Atul on: September 8, 2011
“Shamaa” (1946) is a movie about which very little information is available and digging up information about this movie is a time consuming process. And irritataingly, the little information that turns up is incorrect as well. So I decided to dig up my own comments from the two earlier songs of this movie that I [...]
Posted by: Atul on: September 4, 2011
Listening to this song always has the effect of taking me back to 1960s, when things were much more simple and simplified. A song like this had a magical effect on listeners and they felt the urge to be drawn towards the movie halls screening this movie. I am sure this and other songs from [...]
Posted by: Atul on: September 1, 2011
There have been at least two movies called “Salaam Memsaahab”. One of them was produced in 1979 and another one in 1961. Both these movies apparently proved to be lame ducks at the box office.
Posted by: Atul on: June 23, 2011
Most movies that are released come to the notice of movie going public, whether or not they actually go to the movie halls to watch these movies.
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