Archive for December 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A new film on the blog. And another one that tells us that the producers will go after some very strange names as the film title. Hollywood may have come out with films like ‘Telefon’, ‘Cellular’, ‘Phone Booth’ etc. much later. The Hindi film industry already had a film titled ‘Trunk Call’ way back in 1960. And today this film makes a debut 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.
‘Changez Khan’, the film from 1957, boasts of the iconic Rafi rendition “Mohabbat Zinda Rehti Hai. Mohabbat Mar Nahin Sakti”. Coming from the banner of NC films, this is a home production of Hansraj Behl and his family. The film is produced by Gulshan Behl (brother of Hansraj Behl), and is directed by Kedar Kapoor. The star cast is impressive and includes Premnath, Bina Rai, Sheikh Mukhtar, Johnny Walker, Jeevan, Tiwari, Leela Misra, Ramesh Thakur, Helen, Khursheed, Sandow, Jai Singh, Satpal, Bakshi, Chaman Lal, Aazam, B Saagar. The songs of this film are penned by three poets – Qamar Jalaalabaadi, Saraswati Kumar ‘Deepak’ and Verma Malik. This particular song is written by Qamar Jalaalabaadi. And yes, the music is by Hansraj Behl. The film has a total of six songs, four of which are already present on this blog. This here is a very sweet and a very lilting melody, the fifth one from this film to make it here.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Well, yes, there is a film by the name ‘Great Show of India’. Released in 1958, it is a social drama from the banner of Chitra Bharati, Bombay. By some accounts, it appears to be a story built around a circus company. I request our more knowledgeable team members and readers to please add more information about this film. The film is directed by C M Trivedi and Chandrakant. The cast of actors includes Kamini Kaushal, Mahipal, Tiwari, Maruti, Kamal Kapoor, Mirza Musharraf, Moni Chatterjee, Kamal, Jugnu, Gamdiya, Bhujbal Singh, Reva Rakshit.
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Chinchpokli Chinchpokli
Posted on: December 29, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The name of SHABISTAN evokes the memories of a very handsome and jovial actor-SHYAM.
He died during the final scene shooting of this film while riding a horse. Actually, Shyam was an expert rider and the horse was also the same,usual one. Everything was the same but the Time had come for Shyam to go…
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“Nirdosh” (1973) was a Navsampati Productions movie. It was produced by Nariman H Baria and A Khaliq and directed by S M Sagar. The movie had Yogita Bali, Vinod Mehra, Padma Kkhanna, Sujit Kumar, Ifthekar, Junior Mehmood, Mohan Choti, Nazneen, Mumtaz Begum, Lalita Kumari, C.S.Dubey(Chandrashekhar Dubey), Murad, Brahmachari, Yunus Parvez, Shivraj etc in it.
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“Raakhi Aur Hathhkadi” (1972) was produced by S Noor and directed by S M Sagar. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Vijay Arora, Asha Parekh, Kabir Bedi, Helen, Anoop Kumar, Sulochana, Raj Mehra, Sudhir, Nazima etc in it.
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Haathhon mein mehndi
Posted on: December 28, 2012
“Uphaar” (1971) was a Rajshree Productions movie. It was produced by Tarachand Barjatya and directed by Sudhendu Roy. The movie had Jaya Bhaduri, Kamini Kaushal, Nana Palsikar, Nandita Thakur, Suresh Chatwal, Yunus Perwaiz, Ratnamala, Leela Misra, Shail Chaturvedi, Rajoo, Swaroop Dutta etc in it.
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Thhoda sa thhehro
Posted on: December 28, 2012
“Victoria no 203” (1972) was produced and directed by Brij Agrawal. The movie had Navin Nischol, Saira Bano, Pran, Ashok Kumar, Pratima Devi, Anwar Hussain, Mohan Choti, Ranjeet, Meena Rai, Lolita Chatterjee, Anoop Kumar, Chaman Puri, Jagdish Raaj, V. Gopal etc in it. Though Navin Nischol and Saira Bano were the lead pair in this movie, it was the pair of AShok KUmar and Pran that stole the show.
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