Archive for 2012
Allah teri khair kare
Posted on: March 6, 2012
“Heer” (1956), as the name suggests is based on the Punjabi tragic love story of Heer Ranjha. The title roles in this movie were played by Nutan and Pradeep Kumar.
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Man bhaawan ke ghar jaaye gori
Posted on: March 6, 2012
I have heard this song many a times and liked this song too, but all this while I was totally unaware about the details of this song. Now that I have heard this song again, I recall that this song was one of the songs that Sunil Gavaskar had played during the Vishesh Jaimala programme on Vividh Bharati in 1975.
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Raat phaagun ki chaand poonam ka
Posted on: March 6, 2012
“Bhai Sahab” (1954) is a movie I know well from my days of listening to “Puraani Filmon ke geet” on Radio Ceylon. The songs of this movie sounded like they were sung by K L Saigal but in reality they were sung by C H Atma, a K L Saigal devotee. The most well known song from this movie, viz Nazar ne keh diya afsaana mere pyaar ka has already been discussed in the blog.
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Ye kya kiyaa re duniyaa waale
Posted on: March 5, 2012
“Beti” (1969) is a movie which had Sanjay Khan, Nanda, Kamini Kaushal, Kishor Sahu, Rajendra Nath in it. I have not seen this movie but it is my theory that a movie whose title included words like “Beti”, “Bhabhi”, “Bahu” etc tend to be a tales of women who are shown sacrifices just for the sake of it. I do not know whether I am correct in my assesment of this movie that I have made just by looking at the title and the starcast. I request our knowledgeable readers to help confirm/ refute my guess about this movie.
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“Bedaag” (1965) was produced by Anoop Sharma and directed by R Bhattacharya. The movie had Manoj Kumar, Nanda, Lalita Pawar, Shashikala, Shobha Khote, Raj Mehra, Mumtaz, Kammo, Sonia Lee, Mehmood, Walter Lavarre, Gyani etc in it.
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Gunaahon ka diyaa thha haq
Posted on: March 5, 2012
“Ye Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke” (1963) was based on a real life story, but the Indian censors, movie makers as well as the Indian audience were not matured enough to deal with the subjet. As a result, the topic got diluted, trivialised and sensdanalised to such an extent that the end product was no longer a faithful representation of the case that this movie was based on. In any case, the movie makers had their disclaimer ready (just in case) that their story bore no resemblence to any persons or incidents.
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Ae dil machal machal ke yoon
Posted on: March 5, 2012
“Main Suhaagan Hoon” (1964) is a Nayyar Films Production. It was produced by V N Nayyar and directed by Kundan Kumar. Starcast of the movie had names like Mala Sinha, Ajit, Mishra, Kewal Kumar, Nazir Hussain, Nishi,Ramayan Tiwari, Durga Khote, Chand Burque, Najma, Raja, Kesri, Daya Devi, Altaf, Sarla, Mastram, Indira Bansal, T.N.Sinha, Sardul, Bimla, Rajnath, Manohar, Bihari etc.
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“Naya Daur” (1957) was a pathbreaking movie of its time. Like most pathbreaking movies, it had a storyline that was different and therefore a risky proposition at the box office.
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Itne bade jahaan mein
Posted on: March 5, 2012
“Kathputli” (1957) was a Srirangam Productions movie. It was directed by Amiya Chakravarty and Nitin Bose. The starcast of the movie had names like Vyjyantimala,Kamla Laxman, Balraj Sahni, Jawahar Kaul, Agha, Sheela Kashmiri, Poonam etc in it.
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Jaan sakey to jaan
Posted on: March 5, 2012
During 1950s and 1960s, there used to be quite a few movies with the word “ustaad” in them. This blog have had songs from movies viz “Do Ustaad” (1959), “Ustaadon Ke Ustaad” (1963), “Ustaad 420” (1963), “Ham Sab Ustaad Hain” (1965),”Sab Ka Ustaad” (1967) etc but the movie with the defining word in them, viz “Ustaad” was not among them.
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