Archive for August 2012
Aaja re aajaa na sata re piya
Posted on: August 23, 2012
“Chhoomantar” (1956) was a Sadiq Production movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Shyama, Karan Dewan, Jagirdar, S. Banerjee, Raj Mehra, Amar, Anita Guha, Johnny Walker etc in it.
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Koi ummeed bar nahin aati
Posted on: August 23, 2012
I am aware of a 1971 movie called “Apna Desh”. It turns out that there was another movie of the same name. “Apna Desh” (1949) was a Rajkamal Kala Mandir production. It was produced and directed by V Shantaram. The movie had Pushpa Hans, Umesh Sharma, Manmohan Krishna, Chnadrashekhar, Sudha Apte, Keshavrao Date, Krishna Goyal, Satish Vyas etc in it.
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Paa laagoon kar joree re
Posted on: August 22, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Mahipal, a name that is so familiar as the actor behind the ‘Raaj Kavi Diwaakar’ in V Shantaram’s ‘Navrang’ (1959), as the healer Zabak in Basant Picture film ‘Zabak’ (1961), or the swashbuckling swordsman Paras in Movieland’s film ‘Parasmani’ (1963), and many more characters played by him in films with historical, mythological and religious themes. But not many people know that Mahipal Chandra Bhandari, a young lad of 23 from Jodhpur, made his debut in films both as an actor and a poet. His first film as an actor, ‘Nazraana’ (1942), a twin production in Hindi and Maarwari, turned out to be a flop, and it would not be for another 8 years, till 1950, that he would catch the attention of the industry and the audience alike, as a performer on the screen. But in the interim, his talent and his childhood interest is writing poetry, kept him busy writing lyrics for films like ‘Maali’ (1944) and ‘Aap Ki Sewa Mein’ (1947).
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Do naina aur ek kahaani
Posted on: August 22, 2012
“Masoom” (1982) was inspired from “Man, Woman and Child written” by Erich Segal. And it must be said that the tale was very well adapted by Gulzar who wrote the screenplay and directed with great sensitivity and understanding by Shekhar Kapoor. There were few people in the audience who remained unmoved by the plight of eight year old Rahul (played by Jugal Hansraj), a result of one night affair between an unwed Bhawna (played by Supriya Pathak) and a happily married DK (Naseeruddin Shah) at Nainital at a time when DK’s wife Indu (Shabana Azmi) is expecting their first child. DK goes back home and has a happy family life with two daughters Pinky (Urmila Matondkar) and Minni (Aradhana).
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O jhumke waali ho
Posted on: August 22, 2012
We did not have any anniversaries of movie personalities for the last one day. That state of affair cannot continue of course. 🙂 With so many movies and so many songs over the last eight decades featuring thousands of artists, a few annivesaries are bound to be there on most of the days of the year.
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Jaadoo bhari ye chaandni
Posted on: August 22, 2012
Recently we read about Sudhir jee’s experiences with his laptop and how his laptop gave up on him and would not listen to him no matter how much Sudhir jee tried to reason with it.
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“Qaidi” (1957) was an Eagle Films production. It was directed by Mohammad Hussain. The movie had Padmini, Suresh, Agha, Anwar, Kumar, Kamal, Helen, Johnny Walker, Ragini etc in it.
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Saawan aaye ya na aaye
Posted on: August 22, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In one of my earlier write-ups posted on this blog, I had mentioned that of late, my memories of childhood and younger days have become very sharp where as I tend to forget many events which had happened in recent years. Recently, I came across an article on reminiscence bump theory. It says that there are three stages of memories: (1) the period of childhood amnesia during which we do not remember the events that had happened during infancy to say up to the age of 5 years, (2) reminiscence bump is a tendency for older people to increasingly remember events that happened during 10 to 30 years of age and,(3) the period of middle age to old age, viz.over 35 years of age to the present period during which there is a tendency to forget the events. So my memory is working as per reminiscence bump theory :-). And I am not complaining because it helped me to remember and locate about half a dozen rare songs of 30s and 40s which have already been posted on this blog.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Again, a long gap, which actually troubles me more than anything else. I am sure one of these days, Atul ji will add the following header to the top of one of my posts ; “This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a MOST-IRREGULAR-regular contributor to this blog.” 😀 😀
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“Yaadon Ki Kasam” (1985) was directed by Vinod Dewan and this movie had Mithun Chakrabory, Zeenat Aman, Shakti Kapoor etc in it.
I am not much aware of this movie since this movie is from a time when my bloackout period for Hindi movies has already begun. So I was neither aware of this movie nor its songs.
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