Posted by: Atul on: April 24, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Ramesh Saigal who had produced and directed socially relevant films like ‘Shikast (1952) and ‘Railway Platform (1956), ventured in to make one more such film based on the Russian novelist Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’. [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 17, 2012
“Doraaha” (1971) was produced by Ram Dayal and directed by Firoz Chinoy. This movie had an adult theme and that made the movie a “controversial” movie. In other words, the movie audience, media as well as the censors were not mature enough to handle movies of this genre. This movie, as well as other movies [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 17, 2012
“Pyaar Ka Saagar” (1961) was produced by Fimrays and directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Meena Kumari, Madan Puri, Mohan Choti, Malika, O. P. Ralhan, Leela Mishra, Jagdish Raj etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 5, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. I was contemplating a write-up on the song ‘kyaa dekhaa ab naiano waali nainaa kyoon bhar aaye’ from film DHARMPUTRA (1961) over a month for discussion in the blog. But the song is so [...]
Posted by: Atul on: March 8, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Ravi Shanker Sharma departed from the mortal world last evening (7th February, 2012). Better known as simply Ravi, to the masses and the audiences of Hindi films, Ravi was 86 years, having just celebrated that [...]
Posted by: Atul on: February 27, 2012
The list of songs that belong to ” How come this song was not discussed earlier ! ” category is quite long. Here is another song of this category.
Posted by: Atul on: February 20, 2012
Most Hindi movies deal with safe topics because dealing with “unsafe” topics are fraught with dangers. and when one’s own career may be at stake then obviously few movie makers can be expected to venture into potentially risky topics.
Posted by: Atul on: February 2, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. hamaare baad ab mehefil mein afsaane bayaan honge bahaaren humko dhoondegi na jaane hum kahaan honge These two lines of a song from film BAAGHI (1953) sum up the realities of our life. This [...]
Posted by: Atul on: December 10, 2011
“Andher Nagri Chaupat Raja” (1955) is a Chitramahal production. This movie was directed by Shamim Bhagat. This movie had Chitra, B. M. Vyas, Uma Devi, Gope, Amarnath, David Abraham etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: December 7, 2011
“Suhaag Raat” (1948) or “Sohag Raat”(1948) as it was spelled in the posters , was an Oriental Pictures presentation. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The star cast had names like Begam Para,Bharat Bhushan, Geeta Bali (debut), Maruti etc.
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