Archive for 2013
“Chandrasena” (1959) was a Basant Pictures production. It was directed by Babubhai Mistry. The movie had Mahipal, Girija, Paul Sharma, B M Vyas, Krishna Kumari etc in it.
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Taaron ki aankhon ka taara tu
Posted on: April 7, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
PHOOLON KI SEJ (1964) was produced by the maestro P Adinarayana Rao under the banner of Anjali Pictures. The film was based on a novel ‘Andhere Chiraag’ written by Gulshan Nanda and directed by Inder Raj Anand who also wrote screen play and dialogues for the film. The star cast included Ashok Kumar, Vyjayntimala, Manoj Kumar, Nirupa Roy, Mehmood, Shubha Khote, Anjali Devi, Lalita Pawar, Kanhaiyalal, Mukri etc. All the songs of the film were written by Hasrat Jaipuri and set to music by P Adinarayana Rao. Orchestration of the songs was done by Laxmikant-Pyarelal.
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“Ghar Ghar Mein Diwaali” (1955) was a Minerva Movietone movie. It was directed by Jagirdar. The movie had Eruch Tarapore, Jagirdar, Shyama, Sajjan, Manorama etc in it.
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Patthar se tum doodh bahaao
Posted on: April 7, 2013
“Neelkamal” (1947) was produced and directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Raj Kapoor and Madhubala in lead roles. The movie also had Begam Para, Nazira, Rajendra, Shanta Kumari, Baby Indira, Kumar Sahu, Pesi Patel, Subhashini etc in it.
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Mere dil ki dhadkanon mein sakhi
Posted on: April 7, 2013
“Suhaagraat” (1948) was an Oriental Pictures production. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Begam Para, Geeta Bali, Maruti etc in it.
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Rut aaye rut jaaye
Posted on: April 7, 2013
“Chitralekha” (1941) was based on a 1934 novel of the same name penned by Bhagwati Charan Verma. Kidar Sharma was the producer and director of this movie. According to information contained in YT, The movie had Mehtab in the title role of Chitralekha. Other leading actors in the movie were Nandrekar (as Samant Bijgupt), A.S. Gyan (as Kumargiri), Rajendra , Monica Desai (as Yashodhara), Ram Dulari, Leela Mishra, Ganpatrai Premi (as Mrityunjay) and
Bharat Bhushan (making his debut in Hindi movies) etc in the movie.
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Raja ji ke baag mein
Posted on: April 7, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Writing about old films and old artists is sometimes very difficult. Firstly, genuine informations are rare and difficult to trace and Secondly,one gets frustrated with the wrong information being disseminated by most Internet sites, who claim to give you ALL information about Films, songs and actors of early era.
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Jhoomo re jhoomne ke din aaye
Posted on: April 6, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
” All men are created equal, but some are more equal” wrote British author George Orwell,in his famous book ” The Animal Farm”. His prophetic words proved especially true about conditions in India post Independence. It is an open secret that Nepotism, or helping your friends/relatives with posts or preferences which they may not deserve is a common practice in India.
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Morey baalmaa morey saajna ho
Posted on: April 6, 2013
“Rangeen Raaten” (1956) was an Ambitious Pictures Production. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Geeta Bali, Mala Sinha, Chand Usmani, Pesi Patel, Rohit, Bhupendra Kapoor etc in it.
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