Archive for 2012
Din ba din wo mere dil se
Posted on: September 14, 2012
Movies can be on many topics and it is not necessary that they should all be made on the prevalent mainstream subject of that era. But this fact was not known to movie goers or even to movie critics in the past decades. People would go to the movie hall with pre conceived notions of what the movie should be like and they would be disappointed if the movie had a different story line. There were Amitabh Bachchan movies in late 1970s and late 1980s where movie goers went expecting a dhishum dhishum fare but were extremelyt disappointed on finding that the movie had no fight scenes, and worse, Amitabh Bachchan was shown as a mortal rather than one who could singlehandedly taken on lots of baddies.
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“Baarood”(1976) was a Jugnu Enterprise movie. It was produced by H S Bhattacharya, J C Bhagat and Jitu Thakur. The movie was directed by Pramod Chakravarty.
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“Kahaani Ham Sab Ki”(1973) was produced and directed by Raj Kumar Kohli. The movie had Mala Sinha, Lalita Pawar, Aruna Irani, Roopesh kumar,Jagdeep, Om Prakash, Arun Chopra, Vinod Mehra, Abhi Bhattacharya,Madan Puri,Vimi, Archana etc in it. This movie, going by its star cast was smaller budget movie that few people, including myself, knew much about.
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“Fifty Fifty” (1956) was a Roopnagar production. It was directed by R L Malhotra. The movie had Om Prakash, N. Jaywant, Manmohan Krishna, Gope, Amar, Tuntun, Mumtaz, Sunder, Helen, M. Rajan, David Abraham, Lalita Kumari etc in it.
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“Aas” (1953), not to be confused with “Aah” (1953), was a Goel Cine Corporation movie. It was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Kamini Kaushal, Shekher, Om Prakash, Gulab, Chanda Bai, Master Ramesh Kapoor, S. K. Prem, Krishna Mukut, Laxmi Bai, Pratibha Rele, Vishnu Mehrotra, Baby Ya Ya etc in it.
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Kaanta laago re sajanwaa
Posted on: September 14, 2012
“Basant” (1942) was a Bombay Talkies production. It was directed by Amiya Chakraborty. The movie had Ulhas, Mumtaz Shanti, Mumtaz Ali,Pramila, Jagannath, Suresh, Baby Mumtaz (Madhubala), Kanu Roy, Pithawala etc in it.
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Ae dil e beqaraar bol
Posted on: September 14, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Shamim (also known as Shamim Bano and Shamim Kamal Pasha) was one of the female actors who was active in the 40s as a heroine/side heroine. She was the niece of Khursheed Bano, one of the top singer-actor of the 40s. I was not aware of Shamim until I found her name mentioned in Kidar Sharma’s autobiography ‘The One and Lonely Kidar Sharma’. There is a trivia mentioned in this book about selecting Shamim as the heroine of the film ‘Armaan’ (1942). Kidar Sharma insisted that Motilal and Shamim would be his hero and heroine for the film. Chandulal Shah, the owner of Ranjit Movietone said “ if you take Shamim, Khursheed will never work with you in any films as she is very jealous of her young and charming niece”.
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I wonder if someone has ever tried to analyse why people like some songs and not other songs. Why do some songs become timeless classic while others are forgotten after their initial run.
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“Chaandni” (1989) was a Yashraj Pictures production. It was produced and directed by Yash Chopra. The movie had Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Sridevi, Bharat Bhushan, Juhi Chawla, Sridevi, Anupam Kher, Sushma Seth, Anupam Kher, Beena, Renu Arya, Mita Vashist, Manju Maini, Asha Sharma, Anant Mahadevan, Ram Gopal Bajaj, Shyam Arora, Manohar Singh, Achala Sachdev, Lalit Tiwari, Suhas Joshi, Ram Maini, Idris Malik, etc in it.
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Janam liyo lalna ke
Posted on: September 13, 2012
Today (13 september) is the death anniversary of Anjaan (Lalji Pandey). Anjaan began his career as a lyricist in 1950s. He was not a prolific lyricist. but he wrote a good number of songs.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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