Archive for 2013
Leejo baabul hamaara salaam re
Posted on: August 14, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is a soulful song from film Dil-E-Nadaan-1953,sung by Asha Bhosle,very effectively.
I know I have not been doing justice to Asha’s songs, for a long time now. It’s not that I dont like them, but somehow these songs almost never made it to my writings. Some of the solo songs of Asha, both Filmi and Non filmi are, in my opinion, any day better sung than Lata Mangeshkar !
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“Ziddi” (1948) was a Bombat Talkies movie. It was directed by Shahid Latif. The movie had Dev Anand, Kamini Kaushal, Veera, Nawab, Kuldeep, Indu, Shivraj, Kishore Kumar, Amir Banu, Chandabai, Moshin etc in it.
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Chhatri na khol ud jaayegi
Posted on: August 13, 2013
“Do Jhooth” (1975) was a Vinod Mehra- Mausami Chatterji starrer. This duo was the the Dharmendra-Hema Malini of poor producers and were quite a popular pair in small budget movies of those days.
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“Shrimaan Satyawaadi” (1960) was a Roopkala pictures production. It was directed by S M Abbas. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Mehmood, Shakila, Nazir Hussain, Radhakrishan, Raja Nene etc in it.
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Jaao re jogi tum jaao re
Posted on: August 13, 2013
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today, the 13th of August, is the birthday of one of Hindi cinema’s big stars of the 1950s and 60s, Vyjanthimala.
If one were to go by her recorded year of birth as 1936, today is her 77th birthday. While recording this fact, I could not help observing that two other legends of the same period, Waheeda Rehman and Nutan, are also recorded as 1936 born. Somebody up there must have been in a liberal mood in 1936 to decide to send these three to Planet Earth in the same year!
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“Jungle Ka Jawaahar” (1952) was a Basant Pictures production movie. It was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had John Cawas, Nadia, Dalpat, Goldstein, Shapur, Agha, Abdulla etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is a song from film Chhoti Bhabhi-1950, sung by Mohd. Rafi.
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If one looks online for details about old obscure movies, we most likely end up at sites that promise the world but deliver nothing.
Thankfully, we in this blog get our details from Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our own beloved inhouse encyclopaedia. So when I needed to find the details about “Sindoor” (1947), all I had to do was to search for the old posts on this movie.
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Ye kaisi maine madhur madhur si
Posted on: August 12, 2013
“Rakhwaala” (1971) was produced by S Krishnamoorty and directed by A Subba Rao. The movie had Dharmendra, Leena Chandavarkar, Vinod Khanna, Madan Puri, Rakesh Pandey, Randhir, Rajen Haksar, Shyam Kumar, Pandhari Bhai, Sanjana, Raj Kishore, Jagdeep etc in it.
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“Shera Daku” (1966) was a Laxmi Chitra Production. It was directed by Radhakant. The movie had Randhawa, Nishi Kohli, Sheikh Mukthar, Sunder, Kamran Khan, Kumkum, Rajen Kapoor, Laxmi Chhaya, Saroj Khan etc in it.
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