Archive for September 2012
Dil yoon yoon karta hai
Posted on: September 16, 2012
“Heer Ranjha” (1948) was a Punjab Film Corporation. It was directed by Wali Sahab and the movie had Ghulam Mohammed, Mumtaz Shanti, Shree Nath, Roop Kamal, Gulab, Majnu, Aziz Kashmiri etc in it.
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Duniya ne teri duniyaa waale
Posted on: September 16, 2012
As many as eight songs from this movie have been discussed in the past. Here is the ninth song from the movie.
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Sapnon mein aane waale
Posted on: September 16, 2012
“Ham Ek Hain” (1946) as the name suggests, was a movie on the theme of national unity. Durga Khote, in addition to her own biological son, also adopts two more boys and a girl of different religions and communities and brings them up as her own children, while letting them follow their respective religions. And all these children fall in love with persons of the relevant religious faiths and marry them with full parental approval. A very progressive movie indeed.:) Now we know the source of inspiration for Manmohan Desai’s “Amar Akbar Anthony”. 🙂
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Greetings and wishes for many more happy and healthy returns of today, to the renowned and respected character actor, Shri Krishna Kant. He turns 90 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.
It was many years ago; as a child I saw the song “Dil Jalta Ha To Jalne De”(‘Pehli Nazar’, 1945) as one of the songs in a Chitrahaar program on Doordarshan. At that time, I had no idea about the actors present on the screen during this song. The image of Motilal that I would later remember and carry with me for a long time, would be the balding, and somewhat comical man from films like ‘Mr. Sampat’ (1952) and ‘Jaagte Raho’ (1956). And it was much later that I would become aware that the young man in this song, with a moustache and a head of full hair is none other than the same Motilal. However, on the first viewing of this song on TV, it was the charming face of the lady love, that enamored me, and the image of that open expression on her face, with expectation and waiting written on it, still remains with me as one the most endearing images of a lady actor on screen.
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“Jaadu” (1951) was a Musical Pictures Production. It was directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Suresh, Nalini Jaywant, Sharda, Shyam Kumar, Amanullah etc in it.
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“Baazaar” (1949) was a Madhukar Pictures production. It was directed by K Amarnath. The movie had Shyam, Nigar Sultana, Yakub, Gope, Cuckoo, Badri Prasad, Amir Banu etc in it.
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Ham to albele mazdoor
Posted on: September 15, 2012
“Bandhan”(1940) was a Bombay Talkies production. It had Ashok Kumar and Leela Chitnis in lead roles in this movie.
As many as four songs from this movie have been discussed in the past.
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Din ba din wo mere dil se
Posted on: September 14, 2012
Movies can be on many topics and it is not necessary that they should all be made on the prevalent mainstream subject of that era. But this fact was not known to movie goers or even to movie critics in the past decades. People would go to the movie hall with pre conceived notions of what the movie should be like and they would be disappointed if the movie had a different story line. There were Amitabh Bachchan movies in late 1970s and late 1980s where movie goers went expecting a dhishum dhishum fare but were extremelyt disappointed on finding that the movie had no fight scenes, and worse, Amitabh Bachchan was shown as a mortal rather than one who could singlehandedly taken on lots of baddies.
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