Archive for 2013
Hanste hanste jaana
Posted on: September 19, 2013
This song which is an NFS has been erroneously treated as a song from “Shanti”(1947) for long.
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He Ambika Jagdambe
Posted on: September 19, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The 5th song in the series “The flavour of the 30s” is from the film GOL NISHAN or Mark of Zero-1936 and is sung by Gauhar Karnataki.
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Kya tumne hai keh diya
Posted on: September 18, 2013
This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
So this month sees a few greats celebrating their birthdays, one of them being Shabana Azmi- daughter of the very talented Shaukat Azmi and the poet with Communist leanings Kaifi Azmi. Basically a talent that was more into art films (a very Bollywood way of naming cinema that were seen only at film festivals and at the National Award ceremonies) but some one who couldn’t completely ignore the pulls from the commercial cinema (as Shashi Kapoor once said one genre kept his home fires burning and providing funds for the other genre). So we could see her winning awards for Paar, Arth Nishant etc and entertaining us in Parvarish, Fakira, Swarag Narag, Jwalamukhi etc, in my honest opinion she looked great in glamorous outfits as well as in Sarees.
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Mor boley chakor boley
Posted on: September 18, 2013
“Gauri” (1968) was a Sivaji Films Production. It was produced by Sivaji Ganeshan and directed by A Bhimsingh. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Nutan, Sanjeev Kumar, Mumtaz, Rajendra Nath, Laxmi Chhaya, Urmila Bhatt, Leela Mishra, Ashim Kumar, Shivraj, Randhir, Shyamlal, Umesh Sharma, Sheikh, Rajendra Dara, Om Prakash etc in it.
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Barso raam dhadaake se
Posted on: September 18, 2013
“Chaandi Ki Deewaar”(1964) was a Gee Aar Pictures production. It was directed by Dilip Bose. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Nutan, Indrani Mukherjee, Honey Irani, Sudhir, Naaz, Asit Sen, Pratima Devi, Misra etc in it.
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“Aaj aur Kal” (1963) was a Panchdeep Chitra production. It was directed by Vasant Joglekar. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Nanda, Tanuja, Agha, Verma, Raj Kumar, Ravikant, Kusum Deshpande, Dhumal, Sudesh Kumar etc in it.
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“Chaandni Chowk” (1954) was a Hira Films Company production. It was directed by B R Chopra. The movie had Shekhar, Meena Kumari, Sunder, Kumar, Jeevan, Achla Sachdev, Yashodhara Katju etc in it.
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Agar mujhe na milin tum
Posted on: September 17, 2013
“Kaajal” (1965) was a Kalpanalok Production. It was directed by Ram Maheshwari. The movie had Raj Kumar, Meena Kumari, Dharmendra, Padmini, Mumtaz, Satish Kumar, Jagirdar, Mehmood, Durga Khote, Tiwari, Helen, Madhu Apte etc in it.
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