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Aankhon mein rang kyun aaya
Posted on: August 20, 2012
“Ek Phool Chaar Kaante” (1960) was a Parbat Films Production. It was produced by Hardeep Chatrath and Shyam Dhawan and directed by Bhappi Sonie. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Johnny Walker, Dhumal, David, Bela Bose, Rashid Khan, Krishan Dhawan, Bir Sakhuja, Iqbal Singh, Tun Tun, Mumtaz Begum, Radhika, Sulochna, Rita Roy, Keval Kapoor, Mohan Choti etc in it.
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There were two movies with the same title viz “Duniya Na Maane”. The older movie was a 1937 release whereas the newer movie was released in 1959.
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Today (20 august) is the death anniversary of Avinash Vyas. Avinash Vyas had a long career in Hindi movie beginning from 1943 (Mahasati Anusuya) to 1981 (Bhakt Gora Kumbhar).
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Guess what song I stumbled upon a brief while ago ! I came across a rare song about Eid on the eve of the festival.
This song is as obscure as any. It is from a movie called “Rashida Dulhan” which was made sometime in late 1940s or early 1950s I guess but was never released. The songs of this movie, or at least this song managed to survive though.
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Eid milo eid
Posted on: August 20, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Lovely greetings for a wonderful Eid celebration today, to one and all.
Today, we celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr, which marks the culmination of the fasting month of Ramzaan. Today is the first day of the month of Shawwaal, the tenth month of the Islamic Hijri calendar. Ramzaan, which is the ninth month of the Hijri calendar, is observed as a fasting period by Muslims who abstain from food and water from sunrise to sunset. Fasting during Ramzaan, helps in developing self-control and is a way of getting closer to Allaah. It is historic record that the Qur’an was revealed to Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) in the last ten days of the month of Ramzaan. Today’s festivities mark the end of the fasting period.
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Mere angna aaye re
Posted on: August 19, 2012
Today (19 august) is Utpal Dutt’s death anniversary. Utpal Dutt was typically known to play the role of an idiosyncratic oldie. During early 1980s, he got somewhat typed cast as a lecherous old man eyeing women greedily. He played such roles in movies like “Naram Garam” (1981) and “Shaukeen” (1982). In “Shaukeen”, he had company of like minded oldtimers viz Ashok Kumar and A K Hangal, but he was on his own in “Naram Garam” (1981).
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Ik ritu aaye ik ritu jaaye
Posted on: August 19, 2012
“Gautam Govinda” (1979) was a Subhash Ghai movie. If one is not aware of this fact, one may mistake this movie for a Manmohan Desai movie dealing with separated at childhood brothers. The only thing different from a Manmohan Desai movie and this movie is that instead of Amitabh Bachchan, this movie has Shatrughan Sinha playing the law breaking brother. Shashi Kapoor is there in the movie, as usual playing a police inspector.
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Dil hai haazir leejiye le jaaiye
Posted on: August 19, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
August 19th is the 36th death anniversary of the Sahitya Akademy Award winner for Urdu poetry and Hindi film lyricist Jan Nisar Akhtar. In his last birth anniversary on February 14th, I had covered his profile while discussing the song main abhi ghair hoon penned by him. Suffice it to say here that such a talented Urdu poet born in the family of Urdu scholars and poets was not as successful as a lyricist as his contemporaries like Majrooh Sultanpuri, Sahir Ludhianvi and Shakeel Badayuni. From what I gathered from various websites, he appeared to be surviving more on his shayaris than from writing songs for Hindi films. He was wellknown for his repartee through his shers (couplets). During his filmy career of over two decades, he wrote only around 150 songs for the Hindi films.
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Pyaase do badan
Posted on: August 19, 2012
We in this blog celebrate the anniversaries of Hindi movie personalities by discussing songs associated with them on those days. for this purpose, we naturally rely upon the dates available in public domain.
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