Archive for October 2011
“Taj” (1956) was a Dossi Films production. It was produced by Fali Mistry and directed by Nandlal Jaswantlal. The movie had Pradeep kumar,Vyjayanthimala, Bipin Gupta, Jeevan, Kammo, Shakunthala, Amar,Jajo, Kathana, Helen, Qamar, Roopmala, Ulhas etc in it.
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Aayi deewaali deep jalaa jaa
Posted on: October 26, 2011
“Pugree” (1948) was an “All India Pictures” presentation. This movie was directed by Anant Thakur. The cast of the movie included names like Wasti, Amar,Pratima Devi, Kamini Kaushal, Gope, Dixit, Ram Avtaar etc.
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“Khazaanchi” (1958) is an “All India Pictures” production. It was produced and directed by Premnarayan Arora. The cast of the movie included names viz. Rajendra Kumar, Shyama, Chitra,Balraj Sahni, Minoo Mumtaz, Helen, Manorama,Keshto Mukherjee, Shammi, S.N.Bannerjee, Rajan Haksar, Amar, Anwar, Parashuram etc.
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“Paisa” (1957), by now an obscure movie was a Prithvi theatre production. It was directed by Prithviraj Kapoor. This movie had Prithviraj Kapoor, Kuldip Kaur, Zohra Sehgal,Urza Mumtaz, Ravindra Kapoor, Vishwa Mehra, Ermeline, Sudesh Kumar, Pushpa,Sunder, Shree Ram etc in it.
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Aayi deewaali aayi deewaali
Posted on: October 26, 2011
This deewaali (26th october 2011) is the fourth deewaali for this blog. Yes, it is unbelievable, but true to realise that this blog is celebrating its fourth deewaali today.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In this post I present a qawwaali written by Sahir Saab. In the string of qawwaalis, I had some time back posted the iconic qawwaali from the film Kaala Samunder (1962), with the mukhdaa (title) “Meri Tasweer Le Kar Kyaa Karogey Tum” . There is one more qawwaali from the same film, not as well known, and is somewhat rare and obscure. But then, bless this YouTube that I am able to trace this qawwaali finally.
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“Saajan Ki Saheli” (1980) is a movie which came up in the last stage of the Golden era of Hindi movie music. Those were the days when Disco music was becoming the rage and lyrics were losing their importance in such songs. During those days, we fortunately still had the kind of music in some movies that we had grown up to love all these decades. These were off beat movies, smaller budget movies, family values movies- in brief “non mainstream movies”.
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“Ummeed” (1971) is an obscure movie, despite this movie being of relatively recent vintage by the standards of this blog. This movie was a Rajan Films production and it was directed by Nitin Bose. The cast of this movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Nanda,Leela Naidu, Joy Mukherjee, Tuntun, Agha, Leela Misra etc. This movie must have sunk without a trace, because I have not heard of this movie despite this movie getting released when I was at my most alert and curious as a pre teen kid.
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Is tarah todaa mera dil
Posted on: October 25, 2011
“Shehnaai” (1964) , not to be confused with “Shehnaai” (1947) is a movie produced by New Oriental pictures. S D Narang was the director and this movie had Vishwajeet, Rajshree, Veena, Johnny Walker,Chaand usmani, Asit Sen, Leela Chitnis, Parveen Chaudhary,Nirupa Roy, D.K.Sapru, Rehman, Ifthekar etc in it.
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“Pyaasi Shaam” (1969) is a Kewaljeet Productions movie which was directed by Amar Kumar. The cast of this movie included names like Sunil Dutt, Sharmila Tagore, Feroz Khan, Anjali Kadam, Dhumal, Sunder, Vimal Ahuja, Manmohan Krishna, Kamal Kapoor, Birbal, Om Prakash etc.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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