Archive for 2012
Chandrma madbhara
Posted on: March 2, 2012
Most music lovers listen to standard commonly heard music. Then some music lovers decide to explore and search for previously unheard of music.
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“Anokhi Ada”(1948) was a Mehboob Productions movie. Mehboob Khan was the producer and director of this movie. Star cast of the movie had Surendra, Naseem, Pratima Devi, Zeb Qureshi, Cuckoo, Prem Adeeb, Bhudo Advani, Nawab, Murad, etc in it.
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Ye pyaari pyaari paati
Posted on: March 2, 2012
I have discussed it in the past that there are very few songs in Hindi movies which are picturised on dogs. Now that I have mentioned this fact, our alert contributors are bound to inform me when they come across any such songs.
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It is a commonly held view that obscure movies and songs are those that were created long long ago. But that is not always the case. There could be movies and songs that may have ended up as obscure even if they may have been created as late as in 1980 !
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Zindagi jab bhi tere bazm mein
Posted on: March 1, 2012
“Umrao Jaan” (1981) is a treasure of some of the finest ghazals that have been created in Hindi movies. Most of these songs are sung by Asha Bhonsle in the movie, but there are songs in other voices too in this movie.
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Jeewan chalne ka naam
Posted on: March 1, 2012
Manoj Kumar, like the politicians of those days, had hit upon the formula of championing the cause of the “Aam Janta” and he would make movies where he played a character appropriately called Bharat who would take up cudgels on behalf of the public.
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I have mentioned it in the past that Hindi movies and Hindi songs tend to deal with topics that are of interest and relevance to Indian public. Having said that, one finds that there are very few songs on some topics of everyone’s interest. For example, there are very few songs, if any, that deal with the feelings of Indians as voters. 🙂
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“Heer” (1956) was a Filmistan Production. It was directed by Hamid Butt and the starcast included Pradeep Kumar, Nutan, Ulhas, Darpan, S. L. Puri, Randhir, Krishna Kumari, Zohra Sehgal, Chaman Puri, Mubarak, Murad, Rashid Khan, Lalita Pawar, Shakuntala etc.
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Kaun karta hai kisi ka intezaar
Posted on: March 1, 2012
“Kasturi” (1954) was a Sargam Pictures presentation. This movie was directed by someone called Rajendra Kumar (not the movie actor I am sure). The “star” cast of this movie had Sajjan, Samson, Nimmi, Bipin Gupta, Anand Prasad, Alka etc in it.
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Ni baliye rut hai bahaar ki
Posted on: March 1, 2012
“Kanhaiyya”(1959) was a movie which was an S P Pictures productions. Sant Singh and Pachhi were the producers and the movie was directed by Om Prakash. Starcast of th movie had names like Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Om prakash, Lalita Pawaar, Raj Mehra, Vishwa Mehra, Madan Puri, Leela Mishra, Pachhi, Jagdish Sethi, Uma Dutt, Nazir Hussain, Sushil, Sarita, Mauji, Uma Khosla, Ratna, Mona Saxena etc.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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