Archive for November 2012
I tend to liken the journey of this blog to a train. But nowadays I find the comparison less appropriate because a train stops at intermediate stations for a while whereas we in this blog do not stop at any of the milestones and keep going along, though we may sometimes become somewhat slower than usual for various reasons. So that way, I find the comparison of this blog with a road journey somewhat more appropriate where one need not stop anywhere, and one can see milestones going past at high speed.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Starting with the original superstar of Comedians-Noor Mohd.Charlie, it was a trend that atleast one song was given in every film,to the comedian. After Charlie,there was a big gap, when there was no comedian of his stature in Hindi Films. Ofcourse Kishore Kumar was there, but he was more of an actor and singer than a comedian.
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“Meera” (1979) was a Suchitra International Production. It was Produced by Premji and directed by Gulzar. The movie had Hema Malini, Vinod Khanna, Amjad Khan, Shammi Kapoor, Vidya Sinha, Dina Pathak, Dr.Shree Ram Lagoo, OmShiv Puri, Bharat Bhooshan, A.K.Hangal, Dinesh Thakur, Sudha Chopra, Kamal Deep, T.P.Jain, Gauri Kamat, Gurbachan Singh, Shahu Modak, Nasir, Maqsood, J.N.Manchanda, Ashish Chatterjee, Sadhana Khote etc in it.
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Haji Haji Haji arre Haji baba
Posted on: November 30, 2012
“Mere Sanam”(1965) was a Sippy Films Production movie. It was produced by G P Sippy and directed by Amar Kumar. The movie had Biswajeet, Asha Parekh, Pran, Rajendranath, Mumtaz, Dhumal, Achla Sachdev, Nazir Hussain, Asit Sen etc in it.
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Aawaaz de raha hai koi
Posted on: November 30, 2012
“Gauhar” (1953) was an All Indian Pictures production. It was directed by F H Hassan. The movie had Bina Rai, Rehman, Agha, Vijaylaxmi, Chaman Puri, Charlie, Cuckoo etc in it.
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Hamko chhedta hai dil
Posted on: November 30, 2012
“Aas”(1953) was a Goel Cine Corporation movie. It was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Shekhar, Kamini Kaushal, Chanda Bai, Om Prakash, Gulab, Master Ramesh Kapoor, S. K. Prem, Krishan Mukut, Laxmi Bai, Pratibha Rele, Vishnu Mehrotra, Baby Ya Ya etc in it.
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Phir thhes lagi dil ko
Posted on: November 29, 2012
Prima Facie, it would appear that most Shammi Kapoor style movies starring Shammi Kapoor had music by Shankar Jaikishan. But that is not really the case. There have been several music directors compositing music for Shammi Kapoor’s movies beginning from “Tumsa Nahin Dekha” (1957) when Shammi Kapoor finally came into his own.
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Tak dhoom tak dhoom baaje
Posted on: November 29, 2012
“Bambai Ka Babu” (1960) was a Naya Films production. It was directed by Raj Khosla. The movie had Dev Anand, Suchitra Sen, Nazir Hussain, Achala Sachdev, Dhumal, Rashid Khan, Manohar Deepak, Jagdish Raj etc in it.
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Har shaam shaam e gham hai
Posted on: November 29, 2012
“Mera Salaam”(1957) was a Sushil Pictures production. It was directed by Harbans Singh. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Bina Rai, Veena, Nishi, Gope, Durga Khote, Al Nasir, K N Singh etc in it.
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If a Hindi movie is named “Sadhana”, “Raagini”, “Kalpana” etc then one can be rest assured that the movie will not have the actress of that name in these movies. But it is different with a movie title like “Johny Walker” (1957). This movie, which was a Natraj production movie directed by Ved Mohan, had Johny Walker in the title role. The movie also had Shyama, Tony Walker, Raj Mehra, Amar, Sulochana etc in it.
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