Archive for December 2009
How many movies with the name “Faraar” are there in bollywood ? I was aware of “Faraar” (1975) and also “Faraar” (1955). Now, it turns out that there was a “Faraar” released in 1965 as well !
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Baarah baje ki suyion jaise
Posted on: December 13, 2009
“Jhootha Kahin ka” (1979) was one of the movies where Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh got paid for carrying out their romance in full public view. They were indeed so lucky to get paid for doing what they enjoyed.
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Ek baat kahoon mere piyaa
Posted on: December 11, 2009
I have come to to the realisation by now that most old Bollywood movies were musical blockbusters by default. It meant that each of these movies had several nice songs contained in them.
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Pata note karo hamaaraa
Posted on: December 11, 2009
I have mentioned it in the past that Bollywood movie music was enriched not only by legendary music directors, but also by lesser known names who often got to work in forgettable C grade movies.
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Aji preet ka naataa toot gayaa
Posted on: December 11, 2009
I have posted several songs from “Do Bhai” (1947). It is this movie where Geeta Ray (as Geeta Dutt was then known) first came to limelight with her “mera sundar sapna beet gayaa”. I have since come across other Geeta Dutt songs from this movie which I liked even more.
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I have posted a few songs from “Parchhaain” (1952). What awesome songs this movie has !
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Kismat bigdi duniya badli
Posted on: December 9, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Afsaana” (1951). I am told that arguably the best song from this movie is one that is sung by Mukesh and picturised on Ashok Kumar.
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Zara dekhiye meri saadgi
Posted on: December 9, 2009
Dara Singh, who was a legend among Indians of 1960s and 1970s became a fairly well known actor in Bollywood movies too. Most of his movies were C grade stuff, scoffed at by the “purists”, but his movies must have been profitable, considering that movies featuring Dara Singh continued to get produced. IN fact, Dara Singh himself produced many of his own movies.
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Maanaa mere haseen sanam
Posted on: December 9, 2009
There was a time when I was an avid movie watcher. Those were the days when one could watch movies only at movie halls. I used to wonder whether we will even be in a position when we will be able to watch movies of our choice at home, any time of the day. My hopes were stuff of science fiction in 1970s when I thought about it, but now, three decades onwards, it has become a reality.
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Kabootar aajaa aajaa re
Posted on: December 8, 2009
“Manglaa” (1950) was the second Hindi movie made by Gemini pictures, who till then were mainly producers of South Indian language movies. Like in their earlier effort, this movie too was made in Tamil and then dubbed into Hindi. The songs however were re recorded using singers and lyricists of Hindi movies.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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