Archive for 2010
“Afsaanaa” (1951) was a B R Chopra movie and it was one of the first lost and found movies in Hindi movie history. This movie, which was a huge hit during its time starred Ashok Kumar, Veena,Jeewan,Cuckoo ,Pran, Kuldeep Kaur etc.
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Balmaa anaadi man bhaaye
Posted on: October 9, 2010
These days I do not have the patience to sit through a Hindi movie. I instead watch the songs and try to guess the plot from the songs.
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Muskuraao ke jee nahin lagtaa
Posted on: October 9, 2010
Nirupa Roy is known among movie watchers as the actress playing long suffering mother of Amitabh Bachchan in several movies of 1970s. But that is not how she began her career. She was a lead actress in hindi movies for much of 1950s and 1960s, before age caught up with her and she began playing those Maa roles.
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Tum jo huye mere hamsafar
Posted on: October 9, 2010
Hindi movies have created some myths that have become so well established that it is now difficult to do away with them.
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Dekho maane nahin roothi haseenaa
Posted on: October 9, 2010
Sometime back, I had tried to find out the names of playback singers who have sung for Dev Anand in Hindi movies. And I found that there have been several such singers and not just the usual names.
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Ummeedon kaa taaraa
Posted on: October 9, 2010
I have been posting the songs composed by Sajjad Hussain in this blog these days. One of the earlier movies where he composed music was in the movie called 1857.
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Hindi movies, especially those of 1960s and 1970s, often had a birthday song in it. Many of these birthday songs have gone on to become evergreen birthday songs which are played/sung in birthdays even today.
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Saawan aaye yaa naa aaye
Posted on: October 8, 2010
“Dil Diyaa Dard Liyaa” (1966) was a movie that was just before my time. I had got an opportunity to watch this movie for free a few years later but I passed over that opportunity because the movie,the actors as well as the storyline of this movie were not quite the cup of tea of kids my age. “what is this ? These movies cannot think of anything other than pyaar. There are more to life than pyaar, such as maar dhaad (fights) etc.”- The leader among us pre-teens opined and the rest of us readily agreed and walked off after some time.
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This song can be put into several categories. This song narrowly misses from becoming a “movie opening song”. The song begins immediately after the credits disappear from the screen. Guru Dutt and Mala Sinha are just married and it is their suhaag raat. But Guru Dutt, instead of taking interest in his newly wedded bride, complains that he cannot get sleep because of her.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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