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Kab talak shamma jali yaad nahin
Posted on: July 11, 2012
“Painter Babu” (1983) was produced by Manoj Kumar under his banner of VIP Films with the aim of launching the career of his son brother Rajeev Goswami. The movie had Rajeev Goswami, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Neelima Parandekar, Veerender Sharma, Dheeraj Kumar, Aruna Irani, Madan Puri, Om Shiv Puri, Neelam, Rakesh Bedi, Bandini Mishra, Birbal, C.S.Dubey, Bharat Kapoor, Pinchoo Kapoor, Rajen Kapoor, Kamini Kaushal, Lalita Kumari, Ram Mohan,Meena T, Tuntun, Goga Kapoor, Sudhir Dalvi, etc.
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“Road To Sikkim” (1969) was a Kirti Films Production. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Dev Kumar, Anju Mahendru, Helen, Dhumal, Jayant, Asit Sen, Tuntun, Jankidas, David Abraham, Lalita Pawar, etc in it.
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Jaa re baadal
Posted on: July 11, 2012
“Kailashpati” (1962) was a B grade mythological movie which was an Alice Pictures production. It was produced and directed by Dhirubhai Desai. The movie had Sumitra Devi, Mahesh kumar Desai, Jeevan, Niranjan Sharma, Padma Rani, Premlata, Paul Sharma, Abhimanyu Sharma, Bhoj Kumar, Polson, Laxmi Kant Bagla, Champak Lala, Darshan Kumar, Dushyant, Nitin Kumar, S.P.Kalla, Deepak Kumar, Prakash Bagla, Indira Bansal 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.
This is the story of a 16 year old boy born in Peshawar in a conservative Pathan family for whom the association with film industry was a strict taboo. The boy was attracted to Bombay (Mumbai) as a destination. While listening to some Hindi film songs in one of the shops in Peshawar, a few of his friends coaxed him to try his luck as an actor in Hindi film industry since he had a good face. The fascination for Bombay coupled with the remarks from his friends were sufficient motivational factors for this youngboy to leave ( rather run away from) Peshawar for Bombay some time in 1935. The young boy was Ghulam Mustafa Durrani (1919-1988), later known in the Hindi film industry as G M Durrani, the playback singer.
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Do din ki bahaar
Posted on: July 11, 2012
“Dulaari” (1949) was a Kardar Production. It was produced and directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Suresh, Madhubala, Geeta Bali, Shyam Kumar, Jayant, Amar, Pratima Devi, Nawab etc in it.
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“Chandralekha” (1948), originally a Tamil movie, was remade in Hindi with original actors of the Tamil movie and it turned out to be a big success in Hindi too.
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Likh kar tera naam zameen par
Posted on: July 10, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
We all know that Madan Mohan left for his heavently abode during the making of this film “Laila Majnu”. The film released in 1976 and the music of this film was super hit and it is very popular to this day. The success that eluded him during his lifetime was only destined to be his after his death. I have been meaning to write down the lyrics of this films songs, as many of them are still to be discussed in this blog.
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The Bangla novel “Parineeta” has inspired the making of several films in Bangla as well as in Hindi. Some of these movies had the same titles as the title of the novel. Then there were movies with different titles too, but based on the same story.
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Main hoon Atom bomb
Posted on: July 10, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This is the 400th writeup by him in this blog
The peculiarity of the choice of words and themes of songs in Hindi films will probably never cease to surprise. As we continue to unearth more and more unheard songs, we continue to come across songs that will make one wonder and bring a laugh at the same time. Looking for something else, I bumped into this song just a little while ago. I had not heard this song before. And in just one listen, I am completely bowled over.
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