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Archive for April 2013


“Upkaar” (1967) was a Vishal Pictures Production. It was produced and directed by Manoj Kumar. The movie had Manoj Kumar, Asha Parekh, Sunder, Aruna Irani, Prem Chopra, Pran, Kamini Kaushal, David Abraham, Kanhaiyalal, Madan Puri, Manmohan, Manmohan Krishna, Asit Sen, Mohan Choti, Krishna, Gulshan Bawra, Shammi, Carolyne King etc in it.
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Watching the picturisation of this song makes one feel like one had come across one old acquintance after a long time. This old acquaintance is a song of the genre called “seduction” song. In such songs a lesser female actor would seek to seduce the hero by singing a song typically sung by Asha Bhonsle.
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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.

A few days back, I had discussed hamri munder boley kaaga sakhi ri from the film BAABLA (1953) on this blog. But well before this song, I had come across another song ‘lehron ke rele sang naiya mori khele’ from the same film sung by Hridaynath Mangeshkar. The voice sounded girlish. My first reaction was that it must have been some mistake on the part of uploader of the audio clip to name him as a singer of this song. My doubt stemmed from the fact that Hridaynath Mangeshkar was born on October 27, 1937. At the time of recording this song, he must be around 15 years by which time the voice of a boy should have turned in to a boyish or a male voice. So I kept this song in the loop for some time until I made fairly sure that this song was really sung by him.
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I have recently become aware of a movie called “Nishaan” (1949). This movie was a Gemini Combines Production. It was directed by S S Vasan. The movie had P Bhanumati, Nagendra Rao, J. S. Casshyap, Maya Banerji, B. Kalla, Ranjan, Narayan Rao etc in it. Judging the movie by its songs, this movie appears to be a great fun movie. I wonder why this movie is not all that well known.
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“Panghat” (1943) is a Prakash pictures movie which was produced by Vijay Bhatt and directed by K J Parmar and Mahesh Chandra. There was not much known about this movie, but thanks to Mr Arunkumar’s comments about this movie in another song of “Panghat”, we now have a good idea about the story of this movie as well as about the actors.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Most of us have seen this movie ‘Chak De India’ made by Yashraj films and directed by Shimit Amin. There is no way to avoid seeing this on T.V. as it is there at least once a month on a weekend on some movie channel or the other. This was I think the Shah Rukh Khan response to Amir Khan-Jhamu sugandh oscar nominated ‘Lagaan’. The logic being whatever Amir Khan can do, SRK can do even better. Once upon a time the healthy competition between these two was invigorating. It gave us some fine films to see and enjoy.
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“Sabse Bada Rupaiyya” (1976) was a Balaji Kalamandir Production movie. It was produced by Mehmood and directed by S Ramnathan. The movie had Mahmood, Vinod Mehra, Mousami Chatterjee, Farida Jalal, Jeevan,Sulochana Latkar, Nivedita, Madhu, ChandraShekhar, Agha, Mukri, Sunder,Randhir, Asit Sen, Keshto Mukherjee, Anwar Ali, Sheikh, Bhushan Tiwari, Babban, Nausir Khatau, Janki Das, Polson, Mulchand, Amir Ali, Narbada Shankar, Ghosh, Saigal, Chavan, Chand, Somender, Parikh, Badshah, Rachna etc in it.
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“Kachche Dhaage” (1973) was produced and directed by Raj Khosla. The movie had Vinod Khanna, Kabir Bedi, Mousami Chatterjee, Sona, Zeb Rehman, Ritesh, Master Bhagwan, Nirupa Roy, Tun tun, Ratnamala, Trilok kapoor, K N Singh, Randhir, Murad, Jagdish Raj, Dev Kumar, Nawab, Habib, Ashwani Kumar, Gurbachan Singh, Purnima etc in it.
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