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“Fifty Fifty” (1956) was a Roopnagar production. It was directed by R L Malhotra. The movie had Om Prakash, N. Jaywant, Manmohan Krishna, Gope, Amar, Tuntun, Mumtaz, Sunder, Helen, M. Rajan, David Abraham, Lalita Kumari etc in it.
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“Aas” (1953), not to be confused with “Aah” (1953), was a Goel Cine Corporation movie. It was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Kamini Kaushal, Shekher, Om Prakash, Gulab, Chanda Bai, Master Ramesh Kapoor, S. K. Prem, Krishna Mukut, Laxmi Bai, Pratibha Rele, Vishnu Mehrotra, Baby Ya Ya etc in it.
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Kaanta laago re sajanwaa
Posted on: September 14, 2012
“Basant” (1942) was a Bombay Talkies production. It was directed by Amiya Chakraborty. The movie had Ulhas, Mumtaz Shanti, Mumtaz Ali,Pramila, Jagannath, Suresh, Baby Mumtaz (Madhubala), Kanu Roy, Pithawala etc in it.
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Ae dil e beqaraar bol
Posted on: September 14, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Shamim (also known as Shamim Bano and Shamim Kamal Pasha) was one of the female actors who was active in the 40s as a heroine/side heroine. She was the niece of Khursheed Bano, one of the top singer-actor of the 40s. I was not aware of Shamim until I found her name mentioned in Kidar Sharma’s autobiography ‘The One and Lonely Kidar Sharma’. There is a trivia mentioned in this book about selecting Shamim as the heroine of the film ‘Armaan’ (1942). Kidar Sharma insisted that Motilal and Shamim would be his hero and heroine for the film. Chandulal Shah, the owner of Ranjit Movietone said “ if you take Shamim, Khursheed will never work with you in any films as she is very jealous of her young and charming niece”.
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I wonder if someone has ever tried to analyse why people like some songs and not other songs. Why do some songs become timeless classic while others are forgotten after their initial run.
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“Chaandni” (1989) was a Yashraj Pictures production. It was produced and directed by Yash Chopra. The movie had Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Sridevi, Bharat Bhushan, Juhi Chawla, Sridevi, Anupam Kher, Sushma Seth, Anupam Kher, Beena, Renu Arya, Mita Vashist, Manju Maini, Asha Sharma, Anant Mahadevan, Ram Gopal Bajaj, Shyam Arora, Manohar Singh, Achala Sachdev, Lalit Tiwari, Suhas Joshi, Ram Maini, Idris Malik, etc in it.
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Janam liyo lalna ke
Posted on: September 13, 2012
Today (13 september) is the death anniversary of Anjaan (Lalji Pandey). Anjaan began his career as a lyricist in 1950s. He was not a prolific lyricist. but he wrote a good number of songs.
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Soona soona hai jahaan
Posted on: September 13, 2012
“Aurat” (1953) was a Verma Films Production. It was produced by Munshi Ram Verma and directed by Bhagwandas Verma. The movie had Premnath, Bina Rai, Purnima, Ullhas, Hiralal, Roopmala, Nazirabai, Mirabai, Devkishan, Mirza, S. Pratap, Shanta Patel, Nazir Kashmiri, Rajkishore etc in it.
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“Basant” (1942) was a Bombay Talkies production. It was directed by Amiya Chakraborty. The movie had Ulhas, Mumtaz Shanti, Pramila, Jagannath, Suresh, Baby Mumtaz (Madhubala), Kanu Roy, Pithawala etc in it.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In my school days, I had read about many heroic events of Indian history like Maharana Pratap viz. Emperor Akbar, Shivaji vs Aurangzeb, Rani Laxmibai vs. British East India Company etc. All the opponents were villains to me and I hated them for their wrong doings.
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