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Archive for November 2012


This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

The Shammi-Arjun starrer Malhaar (1951), which was conceived by S.K.Pal and directed by Harish, was first of the two films produced under the banner of Darling Films by singer Mukesh (the other being “Anuraag” in 1956). It had a young and largely inexperienced cast and crew, for many of whom it was their debut vehicle. The film was a showpiece of technical brilliance, especially the taut and precise editing by S. Prabhakar and deft cinematography by M. Rajaram, considering the equipment available to him in that era.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Recently, I came across on the internet, an old review of the book ‘Darlingji – the true love story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt’ (2007) on Onlooker magazine. The book was written by Kishwar Desai. What caught my attention in the review was a comment about Jaddan Bai, Nargis’s mother. It was stated in the review that there was a subtle hint in the book about Jaddanbai being a love child of Motilal Nehru and Daleepa Bai – a courtesan of Allahabad. I am not sure whether this is a fact or a mere rumour which remained unsubstantiated. But this review brought back to my mind Jaddanbai whom I had almost forgotten. In any case, my awareness about Jaddan Bai ( 1892 or 1906 – 08/04/1949) was limited to her being the mother of Nargis and some connection to Hindi film industry.
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“Professor Pyarelal” (1981) was a Topaz ?blaze presentation. It was produced by T M Bihari and directed by Brij Sadanah. The movie had Dharmendra,Zeenat Aman,Vinod Mehra,Nirupa Roy, Dr.Shree Ram Lagoo, Jeevan, Habib, Sudhir, Hercules,Bhagwan Dada, Jeevan, Satyen Kapoor, Mac Mohan, Baldev Khosa, Yusuf Khan, Shammi Kapoor, Nadira, Simmi Garewal, Amjad Khan, Sajjan, Hari Shivdasani, Sunder, K.N.Singh ,Gurbachan Singh, Kuldip Pawar, Jagdish Raj, Narendra Nath, Hercules, Brahmachari etc in it.
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“Sister” (1982), though a recent movie by the standards of this blog is an obscure movie. This movie was produced by Harish Kataria and directed by Rajdeep. The movie had Rehana Sultan, Gautam Bhatia, Tabrez, Bharat Kapoor, Hina Kausar, Chandrashekhar etc in it.
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