Archive for 2012
“Dooj Ka Chaand” (1964) was a Filmistan/ Film Asia production. It was directed by Nitin Bose. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, B.Saroja Devi, Agha, Ashok Kumar, Chandrashekhar, Ulhas, Ratna, Raj Kumar, Sulochana, Tuntun, Jeevankala, Leela, Prabhat Kumar, Iftekar, Murad, Preeti Bala etc.
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Tum na aaye sanam shamma jalti rahi
Posted on: June 14, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Tum na aaye sanam shamma jalti rahi” is one of those rare gems which involves all B-grade names apart from the peerless Lata Mangeshkar herself.
It is her sublime rendering of this number on a lesser light of that period, namely, Vijaya Chowdhary, with B-grade Bollywood hero Ranjan sometimes in the frame.
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Main saagar ki mast lahar
Posted on: June 14, 2012
This article is written by Sadananad Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I have a 78 RPM record (N.50600) of the song ‘saathi na bane koi’ from film DHUAAN (1953) sung by Krishna Goel which was set to music by Dhaniram. Since I was not able to listen to this record (which in any case is in poor condition) for want of a record player, I have been searching for the audio clip of the same on the internet sites.
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Subah hoti hai shaam hoti hai
Posted on: June 13, 2012
“Aplam Chaplam” (1961) was a Mukti Pictures Presentation. It was directed by Roop K Shorey. The starcast of this small budget movie had names like Manju, Tiwari, I. S. Johar, W. M. Khan, Kumkum, Jeevan, Tabassum, Tuntun, Badri Prasad etc in it.
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“Hamaari Yaad Aayegi” (1961) was a Show People Production. It was produced and directed by Kidar Sharma to launch his son Ashok Sharma. The movie had Ashok Sharma, Tanuja, Anant Kumar, Sujata, Vijay, Madhvi, Dubey etc in it.
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“Mirza Ghalib” (1954) was based on the life of Mirza Ghalib. This movie was a Minerva Movietone production and it was directed by Sohrab Modi. the movie had Bharat Bhushan, Suraiyya, Murad, Durga Khote, Jagdish Sethi, Nigar Sultana, Mukri, Baij Sharma, Kumkum, Sadat Ali, Iftekhar, Roshan etc in it.
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Jab ankhiyaan pehli baar milin
Posted on: June 13, 2012
“Paraaye Bas Mein”(1946) is as obscure a movie as any. Hardly any information is available about this movie now.
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“Saanjh Ki Bela” (1980) is a movie which is a recent one by the standards of this blog. Still I was totally oblivious of this movie till recently. It is only when I got down to discuss this song that I became aware of this movie.
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