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Chhod chaley pyaari duniya ko
Posted on: May 30, 2012
“Bhaagam Bhaag” (1956) was a light hearted comedy movie. It was produced and directed by Bhagwan. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Bhagwan, Smriti Biswas, Badri Prasad, Shashikala, Kumkum, Tiwari etc in it. In this movie, everyone played characters who were named the same as their actual names. For instance, Kishore Kumar played a character named Kishore and Bhagwan played a character named Bhagwan.
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Apni apni biwi pe sabko guroor hai
Posted on: May 29, 2012
“Do Raaste”(1970) is a well known movie because this movie had Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz in it, with the stars of both of them being on the rise. This movie was produced and directed by Raj Khosla. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz, Balraj Sahni, Jayant, Veena, Mohan Choti, Birbal, Asit Sen, Randhir, Leela Misra, Bindu, Mehmood Junior, Kamini Kaushal, Prem Chopra etc in it.
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Paalanhaare Raam hain
Posted on: May 29, 2012
“Dil Ek Mandir”(1963) was a Chitralaya Production presentation. It was directed by Sridhar and it had Rajendra Kumar, Meena Kumari, Raj Kumar, Mehmood, Shobha Khote, Achla Sachdev etc.
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Ye jhuke jhuke naina
Posted on: May 29, 2012
“Bharosa” (1963) was a Vasu Films production. This movie was produced by N Vasudeva Menon and directed by K Shankar. The movie had Guru Dutt, Asha Parekh, Mehmood, Sudesh Kumar, Kanhaiyalal, Nana Palsikar, Shivraj, Om Prakash, Neena, Sulochana Chatterjee, Lalita Pawar, Shubha Khote, Sai, Subbalaxmi etc in it.
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Qadam qadam par bichche hain kaante
Posted on: May 28, 2012
Today (28th may), which happens to be the birthday of music director Vinod gives me a good reason to discuss a few songs composed by him. Vinod, whose real name was Eric Robert was born on 28th may 1922 at Lahore. He came to Bombay in late 1940s alongwith Roop K Shorey. Vinod composed music in about 32 Hindi movies and a few Punjabi movies. He was one of the pioneers of Hindi movie music during its formative years. He was one of those who used western music as well as Hinglish lyrics in his compositions at a time when such compositions were not quite in vogue.
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Zara back ke chalo ri mori guinyaan
Posted on: May 28, 2012
“Garma Garam” (1957) was a G M Pictures presentation. It was directed by P L Santoshi. The movie had Bhagwan, Agha, Nadira, Anwar, Gope, Maruti, Krishna Kumari, Mumtaz, Om Prakash etc in it.
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“Mukhda” (1951) is an obscure movie by now. It was a Shorey Pictures presentation. It was produced and directed by Roop K Shorey. The movie had Satish, Kuldip Kaur, Majnu, Neeta, Siddiqui, Kukku etc in it. I am surprised to note that the name of Meena Shorey, the wife of Roop K Shorey does not figure in the list of actors. The list of actors in the starcast could well be only partial.
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Main to Ram ratan dhan paayo
Posted on: May 28, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog.
Many have sung Meera bhajans – from classical greats like M.S. Subbulakshmi to Bollywood greats such as Lata Mangeshkar … and so many in between – and to their credit. But for me, Juthika Roy’s vocals and expression seem to be made for Meera bhajans. Her Meera numbers touch even my atheist heart! Juthika Roy’s private numbers are galore, but she seems to have sang for only three movies: Lalkar (1944) under the baton of C Ramchandra, Ratnadeep (1952) under Robin Chatterjee (Hindi and Bangla versions) and the Bangla movie Dhooli (1954) under Ranjan Sarkar.
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Mujhe mera pyaar de de
Posted on: May 27, 2012
“Hamsaaya”(1968) was produced and directed by Joy Mukherji. This movie had Joy Mukherjee, Sharmila Tagore, Mala Sinha, Rehman, Gajanan Jagirdar, D. K. Sapru, Malika, Madan Puri, Jankidas, Jagdish Kamal, Polson etc in it.
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