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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Very recently (on 11 March 2013), the very first number from Madhubala Pictures’ Pathan (1962), directed by none other than Attaullah Khan, Madhubala’s father, was posted on this Blog with rich additional information on the movie from our resident expert Arunkumar Deshmukh. The write up and the song, So jaa saloney so jaa, a Lata lullaby, can be accessed here on the Blog and Arunji’s comments here.
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Preet ki jyot jalaakar chup hai
Posted on: March 12, 2013
“Vish Kanya” (1943) a Ranjit Production movie. The movie was directed by Kidar Sharma. It had Surendra, Sadhana Bose, Prithviraj kapoor, Kamla, Leela Mishra, Sulochana, Brijmala etc in it.
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Raat ki malka ban thhan ke
Posted on: March 12, 2013
“Ismat” (1944) was an extremely obscure movie. Hardly any information was available about this movie.
I have discussed one song from this movie in the past. The comments by our knowledgeable readers, namely our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh as well as another reader, Mr Sami, on that post has given us some rare information about this movie. Now we know that this movie was produced by Fazli brothers and directed by Sibtain Fazli. The movie had Nargis and Jaani Babu in the lead,supported by Mehtab, Nandrekar, Bhudo Advani, Pratima Devi, Irshad, Ghori etc. The story had an interesting Muslim social story whereby Nandrekar the hero is married to Mehtab and then remarries to Nargis as second wife.
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Kyun tumne hamko daraaya
Posted on: March 12, 2013
“Prem Sangeet” (1943) was a Shalimar Pictures production. It was directed by W Z Ahmed. The movie had Jairaj, Neena, Tiwari etc in it. In oother words, little is known about this by now forgotten movie.
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“Phir wahi Raat” (1980) was produced by N N Sippy and directed by Danny. This suspense movie had Rajesh Khanna, Kim, Danny, Suresh Oeroi, Aruna Irani, Lalita Pawar, Jagdeep, A K Hangal, Shashikala, Mukri, Shubha Khote etc in it. This movie has many suspects and the least suspected person turns out to be the culprit in the last reel, as befits a classic whodunit. 🙂
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Mere mehboob tujhe salaam
Posted on: March 11, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The film “Baghaawat” (1982) must be a typical Sultan Ahmed film. It is easy to guess this much from this one song only which I knew from the days it was a new and popular song and played regularly on Radio. I have seen this song also earlier maybe on T.V. because I hav’nt seen this film. A few days back, maybe weeks,
one similar situation song was posted on the blog, which brought this song to mind. I searched and found the link, and been wanting to discuss this song since then.
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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of this blog.
Directed by Raj Khosla, Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki (1978) was a Nutan-Vijay Anand-Asha Parekh starrer with the last named being the “Tulsi” of the plot. It’s also known for Lataji’s evergreen title song Main tulsi tere aangan ki – which is already on this Blog.
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This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Chandi Sona (1977), as the name points out at, is a film about treasure hunt on an island. Most probably a desi version of a Hollywood film. Sanjay Khan in his independent ventures favoured R D Burman. Even in this film it is Pancham, who gives the music.
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“Halaaku” (1956) was an All India Pictures production. It was produced by P N Arora and D D Kashyap, with the latter directing the movie as well. The movie had Ajit, Meena Kumari, Pran, Minu Mumtaz, Veena, Sunder, Helen, Niranjan Sharma, Raj Mehra, Shammi etc in it.
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“Shiv Bhakt” (1955) was an A V M production movie. It was directed by H L M Sinha. The movie had Shahu Modak, Ragini, Misra, Padmini, Pandhari Bai, Anant Kumar, Gope etc in it.
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