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“Udan Khatola” (1955) was a Sunny Art Productions movie. It was produced and directed by S U Sunny. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Nimmi, Jeevan, Nawab, Agha, Roopmala, Amar, Tuntun, Surya Kumari etc in it.
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“Alif Laila” (1953) was a K Amarnath Production movie. It was produced and directed by K Amarnath. The movie had Pran, Nimmi, Murad, Asha Mathur, Vijay Kumar, Gope, Maya Devi, Helen (uncredited) etc in it.
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“Meetha Zehar” (1985) was a P K Productions movie. It was produced by Rani Kapila and directed by Mohinder. The movie had Padmini Kapila, Deepak Parashar, Om Prakash, Bharat Kapoor, Ranjeet, Shivraj, Kalpana Iyer, Ram Sethi, Dina Pathak, Brahma Bhardwaj etc in it.
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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.
I discovered this song just a few minutes back and am completely bowled over by it. It is from an unreleased film called Bharosa, starring Rajesh Khanna and Zaheera. The music is by R D Burman and the lyrics by Gulzar.
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“Prem Parbat” (1973) was an Art Maker production. It was directed by Ved Rahi. The movie had Hema Malini, Satish Kaul, Rehana Sultan, Nana Palsikar etc in it.
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“Jab Pyaar Kisi Se Hota Hai” (1961) was produced and directed by Nasir Hussain. The movie had Dev Anand, Asha Parekh, Sulochana, Raj Mehra, Rajendranath, Tahir Hussain, Bhishan Khanna, Pran etc in it.
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“Fareb” (1953) was a Femina Production movie. It was directed by Shahid Latif. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Shakuntala, Amar, Maya Das, Lalita Pawar, Zohra Saigal etc in it.
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Garjat barsat bheejat aailo
Posted on: November 20, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The Shammi-Arjun starrer Malhaar (1951), which was conceived by S.K.Pal and directed by Harish, was first of the two films produced under the banner of Darling Films by singer Mukesh (the other being “Anuraag” in 1956). It had a young and largely inexperienced cast and crew, for many of whom it was their debut vehicle. The film was a showpiece of technical brilliance, especially the taut and precise editing by S. Prabhakar and deft cinematography by M. Rajaram, considering the equipment available to him in that era.
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Nuktaa cheen hai gham e dil
Posted on: November 20, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Recently, I came across on the internet, an old review of the book ‘Darlingji – the true love story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt’ (2007) on Onlooker magazine. The book was written by Kishwar Desai. What caught my attention in the review was a comment about Jaddan Bai, Nargis’s mother. It was stated in the review that there was a subtle hint in the book about Jaddanbai being a love child of Motilal Nehru and Daleepa Bai – a courtesan of Allahabad. I am not sure whether this is a fact or a mere rumour which remained unsubstantiated. But this review brought back to my mind Jaddanbai whom I had almost forgotten. In any case, my awareness about Jaddan Bai ( 1892 or 1906 – 08/04/1949) was limited to her being the mother of Nargis and some connection to Hindi film industry.
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