Archive for 2012
“Bhumika”(1977) was a Blaze Film Enterprises Production. It was produced by Lalit M Bijlani and Freni Variava and directed by Shyam Benegal. The movie was based on “Sangte Aikaa”, a Marathi language book of memoirs written by Hansa Wadkar who led a flamboyant and unconventional life in the era as early as 1940s and who at that time focussed on an individual’s search for identity and self-fulfillment. The movie had Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Anant Naag, Amol Palekar, Amarish Puri, Kiran Vairale, Sulbha Deshpande, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Baby Ruksana, B.V.Karanth, Dina Pathak, Kusuma Deshpande, Rekha Sabnis, Baby Bitto, Mohan Aghashe, Savita Bajaj, Sunila Pradhan, H.Lani, Master Abhitab, G.M.Durrani, Om Puri, Abishek, Mathew, Sudarshan Dhir, Benjamin Gilani, Vijay Padukone, Santosh Shah, Swadesh Pal etc in it.
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Uff kitni thandi hai ye rut
Posted on: October 17, 2012
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“Teen Deviyaan”(1965) was a Nalanda Production movie. It was produced and directed by Amarjeet. The movie had Dev Anand, Kalpana Mohan, Simi Garewal, Nanda, Harindarnath Chattopadhyaya, Ruby Myers(aka Senior Sulochana), I.S.Johar, Rashid Khan, Janki Dass, Dhanna, Ravikant, Rirkoo, Latif, Wajid Khan, Funny Tincher, Amin Sayani, Ratan Gaurang etc in it.
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Jai jai hey jagdambe maata
Posted on: October 17, 2012
The nine day festival of Navratri began yesterday (16 october) and it will run till 24 october. This festival is celebrated in different parts of the country in different ways. The eastern part of the country celebrates it as Durga Puja while it is called Navratri in the western parts of the country. I have noticed that the celebrations at various places in the country are taking leaves out of the celebration books of other regions. For example, I find it interesting that Garba, Dandia etc, which are mainly Gujarati forms of celebration are being celebrated in other parts of the country too. And the organisers their attract visitors by roping in small time TV and movie actors who supposedly teach them these dance forms.
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“Dard” (1947) was a Kardar Productions movie. It was produced and directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Shyam Kumar, Suraiya, Munawar Sultana, Nusrat, Husn Banoo, Badri Prasad, Protima Devi, Amir Ali, Lakshman, Noor Mahal etc in it.
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The tale of Tarzan was used in Hindi movies beginning from 1937. The original Hindi Tarzan movie was called “Toofaani Tarzan” (1937). This movie was a Wadia Movietone production. It was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had John Cawas in the title role. The starcast of the movie had John Cawas, Gulshan, Boman Shroff, Chandrashekhar, Nazira, Dalpat, Ahmed Dilwar etc. A wonderful review of this movie is available in Memsaab’s blog.
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Today (16 october) is the 64th birthday of Hema Malini. She ruled the roost in 1970s. So much so that she was described as dream girl by the media. To capitalise on this sobriquet, Pramod Chakraborty actually made a movie called “Dream Girl” (1977) signing up Hema Malini and Dharmendra.
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Ye mausam bheega bheega hai
Posted on: October 16, 2012
“Dharti” (1970) was a Chitralaya Production. It was produced and directed by Sridhar. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Kumkum, Ajit, Balraj Sahni, Kamini Kaushal, Rajendra Nath, Sudesh Kumar, Pahadi Sanyal etc in it.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I am aware of the film ‘Siskiyaan’ which was released in 2005 but did not know that a film with the same name was made some time in early 50s until I stumbled upon a beautiful song ‘tum bhi wohi ho main bhi wohi hoon’ on YT a few days back. I liked the song so much that I at once sat down to decipher the lyrics for posting on the blog. But on a second thought, I got a doubt about the singer of this song which the YT uploader has credited to Kishori Amonkar. As far as I know from the various sources of the websites, Kishori Amonkar’s first Hindi film song as a playback singer was “geet gaayaa pathharon ne” in 1964. Mogubai Kurdikar did not like her daughter to venture into playback singing career. As a result, Kishori Amonkar did not sing for any films until Drishti (1990) for which she was also the music director.
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“Vidyapati” (1937) was directed by Debaki Bose. This movie had Pahadi Sanyal in the title role with Kanan Devi acting opposite him. This movie also had Prithviraj Kapoor, Chhaya Devi, K C Dey, Kidar Sharma and Leela Desai.
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