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Haji Haji Haji arre Haji baba
Posted on: November 30, 2012
“Mere Sanam”(1965) was a Sippy Films Production movie. It was produced by G P Sippy and directed by Amar Kumar. The movie had Biswajeet, Asha Parekh, Pran, Rajendranath, Mumtaz, Dhumal, Achla Sachdev, Nazir Hussain, Asit Sen etc in it.
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Honthhon pe laali hai
Posted on: November 23, 2012
“Ten O’clock” (1958) was a Niagara Pictures Production. It was directed by Jugal Kishore. The movie had Sheikh Mukhtar, Suresh, Geeta Bali, Yakoob, Mirza Musharraf, Maruti, Daisy Irani etc in it.
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Teri nazron ka ishaara mil gaya
Posted on: August 29, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Perhaps there is something about me which makes me always root for the underdog in any situation. In the very first men’s singles Wimbledon tennis final I followed, I rooted for the 40-year old Ken Rosewall as he was brutally brushed aside by the 22-year old all-conquering Jimmy Connors.
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Today (27th july) is the death anniversary of Amjad Khan. It was on this day that Amjad Khan had died in 1992 at a young age of 51.
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Till one year ago, this blog was largely a one man show. But with time, music lovers joined in and became regulars, and a few regulars became contributors too. With time, some of these contributors began to achieve their own landmarks in the blog, viz. century of contributions etc.
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Jalwe tumhaare hon meri ho nazar
Posted on: January 14, 2012
While looking at the picturisation of this song, I wondered why this song does not qualify to be called a Mujra song. As it is, Mujra songs are those songs where the clients are ordinary folks or spoilt nawaabs. If the same dance is performed in a royal court, it becomes a royal court (Rajdarbaar) dance.
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What is the best stage of one’s life to enjoy Hindi movies ? At the age of 5-6 years, you are too young to realise what is going on, and at the age of 15-16, you have learnt to think logically, and you are then required to become mature and responsible. Neither state of affairs is desirable if you want to enjoy Hindi movies.
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“Zabak” (1961) was a B grade movie with an Arabian nights kind of a tale. It had Mahipal and Shyama in lead roles.
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Here is a song whose farmaish was given by a reader Sunit but I was unable to post it since I was neither aware of this song nor was I able to locate it. Raja very kindly provided me the link of this song with the comment that this song was a popular song of his (and my) childhood days.
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