Archive for 2013
Duniya hai barbaad dil ki
Posted on: September 27, 2013
“Meena Baazaar” (1950) is a Pancholi Productions movie. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Shyam, Nargis, Kuldip Kaur, Gope, Sapru, Kanhaiyalal, Bhudo Advani, Chandabai, Om Prakash etc in it.
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Tere pyaar ki tamanna
Posted on: September 27, 2013
“Tawaif” (1980) was a produced by R C Kumar and directed by B R Chopra for Sunrise Productions. the movie had Rishi Kapoor, Rati Agnihothri, Shammi , Ashok Kumar, Kader Khan, Poonam Dhillon, Deepak Parashar, Asrani, Sushma Seth, Iftekar, Achla Naagar, Sunita Singh, AshaLata, Shahikala, Arun Bakshi,Dev Malhotra, Deepak Sethi, Manjushree, Prabha, Ashok Sharma etc in it. The movie was based on a Novel “Bahut der kar di” by Dr.Masroor Alam.
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Insaaf ka taraazu
Posted on: September 27, 2013
“Insaaf Ka Taraazu” (1980) was based on an Western movie called “Lipstick” (1976). The movie dealt with a topic that was relevant then and sadly remains relevant even today.
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Ek sawaal hai tumse ye mera
Posted on: September 27, 2013
“Bhoot Bangla”(1965) was produced and directed by Mehmood for Mumtaz Films Production. The movie had Mehmood, Tanuja, Moni Chatterji, Nazir Hussain, Nana Palsikar, Asit Sen, Ranibala, Mohan Choti, Shivraj, Jagdish Raaj, Ameen Sayani, Minoo Mumtaz, R D Burman etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When he passed away twenty four years ago, in 1989, it was just one year after that he had received the national award for the Best Male Singer (1988). This was despite the fact that he had suffered a major heart attack in 1980, after which, many reviewers said that he was not his original self, and had lost the quality of his voice.
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Tere naam tere naam tere naam
Posted on: September 26, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In 1978, BR Chopra made this remarkable film ‘Pati, Patni Aur Who’. I call it remarkable because it is a rare occasion that the theme of marital infidelity is being dealt as a comedy. A happily married executive, wife of his liking through a love marriage, one child, and a comfortable household and life. What more can a man desire. Ah but yes, it is these ‘more’ desires of the man that are the thorn in the side.
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Today (26 september 2013) has been a lean day so far with only one post appearing till now. We have some important anniversaries falling today and we cannot let them go by just like that notwithstanding the other pressing matters that I too have to contend with sometimes.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I did say in my last post of ‘N’ song that I will quickly move on to the next alphabet. But this post has got inadvertantly delayed at my level. The reason is my hectic schedule, which has made me a frequent traveller. Things are a bit crazy and and unsettled. I am one of those who hates travel. But then if the situation demands that you leave the comforts of home and be a backpacker, so be it. Hopefully, next month is going to be better than the last few months, with things resolved on one front at least which has taken me out of town thrice in two months.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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