Archive for 2013
“Actor” (1951) was a Sarosh Pictures Production. The movie was ditected by Ramji Arya. The movie had Geeta Nizami, Murad, Ramola, Indu, Mithu miyaan, Gulzar, Sulochana, Bhagwan, Sunder 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.
NAYI KAHAANI (1943) was produced under the banner of Prabhat Film Company and directed by D D Kashyap. The star cast included Jairaj, Miss Ross, B Nadrekar, Shalini, Paresh Banerjee, Master Balakram etc. I had not heard of Miss Rose as an actress. A search on the website did not reveal much information about her except some basic information here. She was born as Rose Masbiah in Calcutta (Kolkatta) in a Jewish family. Her filmography indicates that she started working for Madan Theatres in Calcutta starting with the film ‘Hindustan’ (1932). Sometime around 1938, she shifted to Bombay (Mumbai) and joined Sagar Movietone. After the closure of Sagar Movietone, she seems to have become a freelance actor doing roles in films produced under the banners of Ranjit Movietone, National Studios and other film production banners in Bombay/Poona. During her career, she acted in 24 films. ‘Daasi Yaa Maan’ (1946) was her last film. She was a good singer and in a few films, she sang her own songs.
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Aa chhua chhoo chhoo
Posted on: April 27, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Most readers of this Blog know Mr. Raja ji Swaminathan, as a very knowledgeable well wisher of this Blog and as a Blogger himself. His pioneering work of subtitling films is the most praiseworthy.
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Na koi dil mein samaaya
Posted on: April 27, 2013
“Aa Gale La Jaa” (1973) was produced by A K Nadiadwala and directed by Manmohan Desai. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, Shatrughan Sinha, Sulochana, Om Prakash, Jagdeep, Shobha Khote, Asrani, Gajanan Jagirdar etc in it.
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Ye kaali raat kaali
Posted on: April 27, 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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Sajna o sajna
Posted on: April 27, 2013
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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Ho o o teri meri ye kahaani
Posted on: April 27, 2013
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 ko chali panihaari
Posted on: April 27, 2013
“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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