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Plagiarism, or what is euphemistically called “taking inspiration” is nothing new for hindi movies. We have instances of movies which have been lifted frame by frame from movies from some other countries, and that too without acknowleding the fact. And in case people come to know about such acts, the makers of the plagiarised movie are often quite defiant about it and refuse to acknowledge the fact.
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Chitnandan aage naachoongi
Posted on: November 12, 2012
“Do Kaliyaan” (1968) was an AVM productions movie. It was directed by Krishnan Panju. The movie had Biswajeet, Mala Sinha, Mehmood, Om Prakash, Lalita Pawar, Manorama, Nigar Sultana, Geetanjali, Hira Lal, Umesh Sharma, Bharati, Sujata, Shabnam, Baby Sonia(aka Neetu Singh) etc in it.
Na chamko chanda aaj ki raat
Posted on: November 12, 2012
“Dhuaan” (1953) was produced and directed by R L Malhotra. The movie had Asha Mathur, M. Rajan, Usha Kiran, Ulhas, Om Parkash, Jeevan, Protima Devi, Mumtaz, Sanjana 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.
Guru Dutt and Dev Anand were good friends. Guru Dutt was senior to Dev Anand,having started in 1941 with Uday Shankar’s Cultural centre-Almoda to study Dance and drama. In 1944 Guru Dutt joined Prabhat Film company at Poona, where he met his two future friends- Rehman and Dev Anand. In 1946, he worked there as an assistant Director to P.L.Santoshi for “Hum Ek Hai” and also choreographed its dances. It was here that he developed a bond with Dev.
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Man saaf tera hai ya nahin
Posted on: November 12, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the early era of Talkie films the Film Companies which were well known were Imperial, New Theatres, British Dominion, Kohinoor, Krishna, Maharashtra, Ranjit, Saraswati, Sharada film company etc. Most of these companies continued from the silent era. Slowly many film companies stopped or got merged with existing companies. But one name stood out even in those days and that was PRABHAT FILM COMPANY or PFC.
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This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A few days back on the occasion of Amitabh and Rekha’s birthday I spoke of how famous or popular or well received their pairing was in Bollywood movies. There were other such equally popular jodis. Viz. Rishi Kapoor- Neetu Singh, Vinod Mehra- Moushmi Chaterjee, Rajesh Khanna with Sharmila Tagore, Rajesh Khanna with Mumtaz, Rajesh Khanna with Asha Parekh etc in my growing up years. Actually I thought that Jaya Bhaduri never made a geat pair on screen with Amitabh, I liked her more with Sanjeev Kumar or even Jeetendra. There were popular pairing in the previous generation of stars too. But I think we have more knowledgeable people in our group to list them. Now what made a pairing popular was how well they looked together or how had their movie fared at the box office or how much recall value their songs had.
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“Bhai Behan” (1959) was a Sippy Films Production movie. It was produced and directed by G P Sippy. The movie had Naaz, Daisy Irani, Nishi, Johnny Walker, Rehman etc in it.
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c…”Nausherwaan e Adil” (1957) was a Minerva Movietone production. It was directed by Sohrab Modi. The movie had Raj Kumar, Mala Sinha, D.K.Murad, Shammi, Agha, Amir Bano, Niranjan Sharma, Sohrab Modi, Naseem Bano, Bipin Gupta, Uma Dutt, Heera Sawant, Sheela Vaz etc in it.
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Baalam se milan hoga
Posted on: November 11, 2012
“Chaudhvin Ka Chaand” (1960) was a Guru Dutt Films production. It was directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Rehman, Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Minoo Mumtaz, Mumtaz Begum, Pravin Paul, Naazi, Zebunissa, Uma Devi, Lata Sinha, Balam, Johnny Walker etc in it.
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