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Sach sach sach o dear sach sach
Posted on: March 23, 2013
Though most Hindi movies of 1950s and 1960s had “mainstream” story lines, but a few comedy movies too were produced during that era. Quite a few of these movies had Kishore Kumar in the lead roles. Then there were some other actors who too were making their marks as comedy actors. I S Johar was one such actor.
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Shaam huyi o panchhi aa
Posted on: March 23, 2013
“Maa Baap” (1944) had Nazir Khan, Veena, Rajkumari Shukla, Yakub in it. One song from this by now obscure movie has been discussed in the past.
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“Nargis” (1946), an obscure movie by now, had Nargis, Shahnawaz, Alka Achrekar, Pratima Devi , Rehman, David, Amirbai Karnataki, Bhagwan, Tabassum etc in it.
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Maan na kar ab sajni
Posted on: March 23, 2013
“Aandhi” (1940) is by now a forgotten movie. Pankaj Mullick, Molina Devi and K C Dey were the lead actors in this movie.
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O goriye o poriye o chhoriye
Posted on: March 22, 2013
“Madam XYZ” (1959) was a Neo Lite Films production. It was directed by Nanabhai Bhatt. The movie had Bhagwan, Suresh, Shakila, Nalini Chonker, Shammi, Sudesh, Purnima, Kumar, Manju, David Abraham, Pran etc in it.
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Pyaar wo shai hai ae mere yaaron
Posted on: March 22, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Here comes a party song, performed by Mehmood in the film “Neela Aakash”” (1965). All songs of this movie are marvellous, including the one removed/unused from the film. I will come to that song in the next post.
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Mat kar saaj singaar sundari
Posted on: March 22, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Jagmohan Sursagar was known mostly for his non-filmy songs whether in Bengali or Hindi. After the success of his songs in ‘Meghdoot’ (1945), he collaborated with Faiyyaz Hashmi and Kamal Das Gupta for recording many non-filmy Hindi songs which became very popular. Faiyyaz Hashmi was a full time employee of EMI (HMV) at Calcutta. After bifurcation of British India, Faiyyaz Hashmi was transferred to Dhaka in 1947 and to Lahore a year thereafter to strengthen the office which was affected by the migration of many of its artists to India. With this, the collaboration of these trios virtually came to an end. Thereafter, Jagmohan Sursagar recorded some more Hindi non-film songs with different lyricists such as B C Madhur, Madhuraj, Rajinder Krishan etc. But most of these songs are silent on the name of the composer. It is believed that during this period, Jagmohan himself may have composed the music for most of his non-filmy songs.
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“Veena” (1948) was a Jagat Pictures Production. It was directed by J P Advani. The movie had Rehman, Hemavati, Veera, Sulochana Chatterji, Leela Misra, Yakub, Girdhari etc in it.
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“Bhayaanak” (1979) was a C grade so called suspense movie. The movie was produced by A V Mohan and directed by S U Saiyed. The movie had Mithun Chakraborthy, Ranjeetha kaur(Special appearance),Sadhu Mehar, Nilu Phule, C S Dubey,Jagadeesh Raj, Chandrashekhar, Mushthaq Merchant, Om Shivpuri, Sharad Saxena(Guest), Jyoti Rana etc in it.
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Ae mere dil sun meri jaan
Posted on: March 21, 2013
“Kunwaari” (1966) was produced by R N Mandloi for Ravi Kala Chitra Production. It was directed by S N Tripathi. The movie had Indrani Mukherjee, Ravindra Kapoor, Jeevan, Tabassum,Leela Mishra,Prem Chopra, Murad, Sunder, Shammi,Tuntun,Mridula, S N Tripathi, Mumtaz Begum, Babu Raje, Khursheed, RajKishore, Susheela, Sheela Kashmiri, Chanda Bai, Daya Devi, Ajeet , Maula, Omprakash, Munshi Munakka, Safdar, RadheShyam, Ameeta, Anwari, Meera, Helen, Shashi, Chhunni etc in it.
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