Archive for March 2013
Aa jawaan aa aaj beet jaayegi
Posted on: March 10, 2013
“Sawaal” (1943), by now an obscure movie, was directed by Niranjan. The movie had Ulhas, Mumtaz Shanti, Radha Rani, Agha, Badri Prasad etc in it.
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Man re mat ro mat ro
Posted on: March 10, 2013
“Prem Sangeet” (1943) was a Shalimar Pictures production. It was directed by W Z Ahmad. Th movie had Jairaj, Neena, Tiwari etc in it. Very little information is available on internet about this obscure movie.
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Aarti karo Shankar ki
Posted on: March 10, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
MAHASHIVRATRI greetings to all readers !
In India all our social customs, traditions, calenders and Festivals are linked to Agriculture, because basically,even today, we are an Agricultural country. With almost over 70% population (as against 85% in 1947) living in Villages and depending on farming, even in these days. No wonder if all our major events have an Agricultural base.
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Taata tiyo taataa tiyo
Posted on: March 9, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Pati Patni (1966) was R D Burman’s fifth released film, after his debut in Chhote Nawab (1961). Most probably his close friend Mehmood procured this project for him as well.
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“Gumnaam” (1965) was based on Agatha Christie’s suspense novel “And then there were none”. And it must be said that this Hindi movie version added its own flavour to the story tailormade for its target audience. I am not sure that the original novel had a butler quite like Mehmood, for instance.
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Hauley hauley jiyaa doley
Posted on: March 9, 2013
“Kaise Kahoon” (1964) was a Vrindawan Pictures production movie. It was directed by Atmaram. The movie had Biswajeet, Nanda, Om Prakash, Durga Khote, Naaz, Geetanjali, Nimbalkar, Manmohan Krishna, Asit Sen, Rehman etc in it.
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“Bahaaron Ke Sapne” (1967) was produced and directed by Nasir Hussain. This movie had Rajesh Khanna,Asha Parekh, Premnath, Laxmi Chhaya, Bela Bose, Azra, Manorama, Anwar Hussain, Nana Palsikar, Sulochana Latkar, Padma Khanna, P.Jairam, Madan Puri, Jaishree Gadkar, Shivraj, Ram Avtar, Rajinder Singh, Kanu Roy, Dhanna, Saral Kumar, Nazir Kashmiri, Jeri, R.P.Kapoor, Indira Bansal, Malti Bai, Antenet, Fahmida, Narbada Shanker, Uma Khosla, Krishan Nanda, Rajendra Nath, Baby Nuzhat, Mansoor Khan etc in it.
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Wo chaand ban muskuraa rahe hain
Posted on: March 9, 2013
“Vish Kanya” (1943) a Ranjit Production movie. The movie was directed by Kidar Sharma. It had Surendra, Sadhana Bose, Prithviraj Kapoor, Kamla, Leela Mishra, Sulochana, Brijmala etc in it.
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Aa aa aankhon mein aa
Posted on: March 9, 2013
“Nargis” (1946) is an obscure movie by now. Hardly any information is available about this movie. This movie had Nargis, Shahnawaz, Alka Achrekar, Pratima Devi etc in it from the little information I can gather from internet.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In olden times there was a saying that one must visit Kashi(Benaras/Varanashi) before one dies.(There is an old saying in Western India ” Surat nu Jaman ane Kashi nu Maran”,which means,in your life you must eat food in Surat and Die in Kashi-both the best options).
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