Archive for April 2011
Haay kisi ka rangeen aanchal
Posted on: April 12, 2011
“Chaubees Ghante” viz twentyfour hours is a movie that was released in 1958. This B grade movie had Premnath, Shakeela, K N Singh, Maruti, Nishi, Satish Batra etc in it. This movie was a B grade movie and I am not much aware of this movie. I in fact was more aware of a movie called “Chattees Ghante” (thirtysix hours) that was released in 1975.
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Unpar kaun kare jee vishwaas
Posted on: April 12, 2011
The usual love stories constituted the bulk of storyline in mainstream Hindi movies of the past. The fact that history and mythology provided such rich sources of stories that could be used was not given much thought by mainstream movie makers. It was left to movie makers of smaller resources (makers of B grade movies) to make movies on such topics that were regarded as risky and unviable by mainstream movie makers.
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“Jaageer” (1959) is an obscure movie which had Premnath, Ulhas, Meena Kumari, Kuldeep Kaur etc in it.
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Meri aankhon ki neend le gayaa
Posted on: April 12, 2011
“Madhosh” (1951) is a movie starring Manhar, Usha Kiran and Meena Kumari. This movie is today known known for its music.
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Aa main bataaun tu hai kyaa
Posted on: April 11, 2011
“Barsaat Ki Raat” (1964) was a movie that only had qawwalis in it, and the movie, riding on these qawwalis went to to become an all time hit movie. Inspired by the success of this movie, a B grade movie maker tried to emulate the movie by making another movie on the same theme. This movie maker in fact went one step ahead and named his movie “Qawwali ki raat”! What an inspired title ! 🙂
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of articles to this blog.
Another wonderful gem, that I had been searching for many years.
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Aankhon se aankh mili
Posted on: April 11, 2011
“Mitti Mein Sona” (1960) is a lesser known movie from the past. This movie had Pradeep Kumar and Mala Sinha in it.
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These days I have been discussing the songs of “Navrang” (1959). I have so far discussed as many as five songs from this movie.
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Jab aane waale aate hain
Posted on: April 11, 2011
When Madan Mohan began his career as a music director with “Aankhen” (1950), he used several singers and lyricists in that movie. Interestingly, Lata was not among those several singers. He began using Lata from his subsequent movies. And he also made use of less number of singers and lyricists in these movies.
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Boy meets girl, girl meets boy. Considering the society that they live in, the two are too shy to interact. The boy musters up the courage to break the ice and makes a tentative advance.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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