Archive for April 2012
Kaun apna kaun paraaya
Posted on: April 21, 2012
“Kaun Apna Apna Paraaya” (1963) was a Golden Films Production movie. It was produced by Tony walker (Johny Walker’s brother) who also starred in the movie as Hero under the name of Vijay Kumar. Niranjan directed the movie. The movie had Waheeda Rehman, Vijay Kumar, Johnny Walker, Nirupa Roy, Tun Tun, Amar, Shammi, Dulari, Hammad, Sham Kumar, Dilip Dutt, Laxmi, Nasreen, Saudagar Singh etc in it.
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“Challenge” (1964) is a movie as obscure as any. This movie was a Movie Centre Production. It was directed by B J Patel. It is not clear who played the lead role in this movie. The sketchy information available about this movie suggest that Ranjan, Chitra, Maruti, Polson, Tiwari, etc figured in this movie.
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Naina jo nainon se miley
Posted on: April 21, 2012
“Daku Bhupat” (1960) is an extremely obscure movie by now. The movie was a Jalaruha Production movie. Ramesh Gupta was the director and the movie had N T Rama Rao, Anjali Devi, Ramesh Kumar, Nandu, Majmudar etc in it. It appears that the movie was a remake of some hit Telugu movie, or perhaps dubbed version of the Telugu movie. Not just the actors of Telugu movie industry, even singers from South Indian movie industry were used in this movie. In other words, the songs were resung in Hindi by South Indian singers and used in the Hindi version.
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Khaamosh hai khewanhaar mera
Posted on: April 21, 2012
“Amar” (1954) was a Mehboob Productions movie. It was directed by Mehboob Khan. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Nimmi, Madhubala, Jayant, Ulhas, Mukri, Amar, Shakeel Nomani, Husn Banu, Murad etc in it.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When I saw the list of songs remaining to complete the score of films in this blog, given by our own in house encyclopedia, Deshmukh Sir, I was actually thrilled that one song from ‘Asli Naqli” was remaining. The song in question is “Laakh chhupaao chhup na sakegaa raaz ho kitna gehraa” is something I am familiar with and very fond.
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Main hoon tera geet gori
Posted on: April 20, 2012
“Mahua” (1969) was a reincarnation story and quite an ambitious one at that. Here the hero and heroine undergo not one, but two reincarnations each. It is obviously difficult to keep track of the comlicated plot, not just for the moviegoers, for for the moviemakers too. So the end result was a confused and confusing movie that duly flopped at the box office.
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Wafa jinse ki bewafa ho gaye
Posted on: April 20, 2012
“Pyaar Ka Saagar” (1961) was a Filmrays Production. It was directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Meena Kumari, Madan Puri, Mohan Choti, Malika, O. P. Ralhan, Leela Mishra, Jagdish Raj etc in it.
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Ye duniya ek saagar hai
Posted on: April 20, 2012
“Bandish” (1955) was a Basu Chitra Mandir Production. It was directed by Satyen Bose. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari,Mehmood, Pratima Devi,Bipin Gupta, Meena Kumari, Daisy Irani, Bhanu Banerji, N. Hussain, Sajjan, Shammi, Indira, Narbada Shanker etc in it.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Laila Majnu” was the debut film for Ranjeeta. For a number of year after I saw “Ankhiyon ke jharoke se” she was my favorite. I made it a point to see all her films, even those obscure movies with Mithun Chakravarty and music by Bappi Lahiri. I saw her films right upto “Rajput” (1981). Than she sort of dropped out of scene. There may have been a few more films, but I dont know. I dont remember how, but ” Ankhiyon ke jharoke se” I might have seen on T. V. only. ‘Rajput’ we had all seen in the theatre. That was a time when Amitabh Bachchan was in full flow. We would see all his films, not as soon as they released, but it was usually after the school exams were over and on the day of the last paper or the weekend. My father would book the tickets in advance. “Do aur Do paanch” onwards all films of Amitabh Bachhan were a must watch for all of us. They usually had a long run a theatre, unlike what happens now. If you want to see a movie in the theatre you have to do it within a few weeks. If dont manage to, then it will be gone from all the nearby movie halls.
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