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Maan gayi main ab maan gayi
Posted on: December 7, 2011
“Duhaai” (1943) is an extremely obscure movie by now. Little information is available about this movie now. From the little that I have been able to dig about this movie (from imdb), it was directed by V M Vyas. Some of the actors of this movie were Ansari, Shanta Apte, Noorjahaan,Butt Kasar, M Kumar etc.
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“Akeli Mat Jaiyyo” (1963) was no great shakes as a movie. even people as patient as Raja (a regular of this blog) found this movie insufferable when he watched this movie and felt obliged to inform me of this fact when we met last year.
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“Pinjre Ke Panchhi” (1966) is a movie which is a Shobha Chitra Production. M C Ananthraj was the producer and this movie was directed by Salil Chaudhary. The star cast of this movie included names like Meena Kumari, Baljraj Sahni, Mehmood, Abhi Bhattacharya,Shaukat Azmi, Asit Sen, Keshto Mukherjee, Ifthekar, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Yunus Parwez, Poonam etc.
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“Prem Patra” (1962) is by now a forgotten movie. This movie was produced and directed by Bimal Roy. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Sadhana, Seema, Sudhir, Rajendranath, Parveen Choudhary, Kanu Roy, Kunte, Keshto Mukherjee, Chand Usmani, Varde, Madhvi, Bela Bose etc in it.
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Jaa parwaane jaa
Posted on: December 6, 2011
“Rajputani”(1946) is by now an obscure movie. This movie was directed by Aspi Irani and it had Jairaj, Veena, Bipin Gupta, Usha Rani,Noori, Altaf Hussain, Azim etc in it.
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Koi kisi se dil na lagaana
Posted on: December 6, 2011
“Nishaana” (1950) was an M & T Production. It was directed by Wajahat Mirza Changezi. The starcast of the film included names like Ashok Kumar, Geeta Bali, Cuckoo, Madhubala, Shyama, Yakub, Nawab, Kanhaiyalal, Balam, Shanti Madhok, Durga Khote etc.
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Aane waale jab aayenge
Posted on: December 6, 2011
Discussing Sajjad Hussain compositions in this blog is always special, and more so because the remaining Sajjad Hussain songs that are being discussed now are extremely rare to find.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Aankhon Hi Aankhon Mein Ishaaraa Ho Gayaa”, this lovely melody remains etched in my heart, as my first introduction to a dashing young Dev Anand, as seen on a Doordarshan screening of the film CID (1956). Time would be sometimes early seventies, and as a pre teen kid I was in the home of a friend (we did not have a TV of our own), religiously attending the Sunday film session, that was the once a week diet of film viewing generally allowed to us kids.
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Dil ye kyaa cheez hai
Posted on: December 5, 2011
“Baazi” (1951) was one of the earliest movies produced by Navketan, and it was a pathbreaking movie in more ways than one. This movie paved the way for crime thrillers that became and remained a popular genre of Hindi movies throughout 1950s.
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“Munimji”(1955) was a movie produced by Filmistan and directed by Subodh Mukherji. This movie had Dev Anand, Nalini Jaywant, Pran, Nirupa Roy, Kanu Roy, Ameeta, Prabhu Dayal ,S. L. Puri, Samar Chatterji etc in it.
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