Archive for December 2012
“Nazrana” (1948) was an unreleased movie and hardly any information was available about this movie online. Not any longer. Our own beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh now has some invaluable information about this movie. Here is what he has to say about this movie:
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Saari duniya gorakh dhandha
Posted on: December 14, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
There are various categories of films, based on the source of their story. They can be 1) Mythological, 2)Historical, 3) Fantasy, 4)stories cooked up by the ‘story Department’, 5)Films copied from/remade from other languages and 6) Films based on famous Novels, Plays or Epics written by wellknown authors.
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Ae ri main to prem deewaani
Posted on: December 13, 2012
“Meera” (1979) was produced by Premji and J N Manchanda and directed by Gulzar. The movie had Hema Malini, Vinod Khanna, Shammi Kapoor, Vidya Sinha, Amjad Khan, Bharat Bhushan, Dr Shreeram Lagoo, Dina Pathak etc in it.
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Matwaale ham matwaale tum
Posted on: December 13, 2012
“Jhumroo” (1961) was a K S Films Production movie and it was directed by Shankar Mukherji. In reality, it was Kishore Kumar’s home production though he produced his movies by ,making his secretary pose as the producer of his movies.
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“Jab Pyaar Kisi Se Hota Hai” (1961) was a Nasir Hussain Films production. It was produced and directed by Nasin Hussain. The movie had Dev Anand, Asha Parekh, Pran, Raj Mehra, Mubarak, Sulochana Latkar, Wasti, Rajendra Nath, Tahir Hussain, Dulari, Bishan Khanna, Ram Avtar etc in it.
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Here is a song about which very little is known. This song is sung by Rafi and it is mentioned by a few YT uploaders that this song is from an unreleased movie of 1940s called “Nazrana”. Apparently C Ramchandra composed the music for this song.
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Ae saba unse keh zaraa
Posted on: December 13, 2012
The popular Arabian Nights tale of “Alibaba” have inspired the creation of several Hindi movies. Tis blog features songs from three “Alibaba” movies that were released in 1940, 1954 and 1966.
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Duniya paagalon ka baazaar
Posted on: December 13, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the early era of the Talkie, most films were based on Mythology, History or Fantasy stories. As the years went by,the films were made on social themes and still later the films were produced on the stories written in their ‘story departments’ weaving mystery, humour, misfortune and heroics imaginatively.
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Husn jab jab ishq se takra gaya
Posted on: December 12, 2012
“Neend Hamaari Khwaab Tumhaare”(1966) was a Movie Monuments production. It was produced by Hans Chaudhary and directed by Shiv Sahni. The movie had Nanda, Shashi Kapoor, Rajendra Nath, Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Manorama, Omprakash, Shashikala, Bela Bose, Manmohan, Anwar Hussain, Vishwa Mehra, Madhumati, Lotan etc in it.
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“Mother India” (1957) was a Mehboob Productions movie. It was produced and directed by Mehboob Khan. The movie had Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, Raj Kumar, Kanhaiyalal, Jilloo Maa, Kumkum, Chanchal, Sheela Naik, Mukri, Ram Shastri etc in it.
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