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“Sikandar e Azam” (1965) is an N C Films production. It was directed by Kedar Kapoor. The star cast of this movie had names like Dara Singh, Mumtaz, Prithviraj Kapoor, Premnath, Prem Chopra, Veena, Ganga, Jeewan, Jagdish Sethi, Tiwari etc.
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“Bilwamangal” (1954), a Minar Movies production was directed by D N Madhok. C H Atma played the title role in this movie and Suraiyya played his love angle. Nirupa Roy, Asha Mathus, Ulhas etc were the other actors to figure in this movie.
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In Hindi movies, singing songs is a privilege of the lead actors, and they sing at least half a dozen songs, including romantic songs.
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Arrey qismat ka sitaaraa chamka
Posted on: November 17, 2011
“Sangeeta”(1950), an obscure movie by now, was a Sudha Pictures production. it was directed by Ramanlal Desai. The starcast of the movie included names like Shyam, Nigar, Suraiya Choudhary, Ramsingh, Radha Krishnan, Pran, Mumtaz Ali etc in it.
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It was on 16th november 1917 that Chitragupta Srivastava was born in Bihar. He went to Bombay and earned fame as music director Chitragupta. He preferred to keep a low profile and was happy to compose for B grade movies, where he composed absolutely A grade music. A grade movie makers would have happily worked with Chitragupta if only Chitragupta had gone and met them. For instance, the first time that Chitragupta met with Raj Kapoor was in 1980s, when his music director sons Anand and Milind introduced him to raj Kapoor at a function. And Raj Kapoor told him that he would have definitely used him as a music director in his movies if only he had met him.
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Haay baalam kitna jaalam
Posted on: November 16, 2011
Helen has been the most well known item song dancer in Hindi movies. But she was not the first one. The original item song dancer in Hindi movies was Cuckoo. In fact, it was Cuckoo who was instrumental in getting Helen her initial breaks in Hindi movies. So in a way Helen was Cuckoo’s protege.
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“Chingaari” (1955) is an obscure movie which was produced by Cooperatives pictures production. S Srivastava directed the movie. This movie had actors like Shekhar, Nalini Jaywant, Leela Misra, Sunalini Devi, Pran etc in it.
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“Mayur Pankh”(1954), a Sahu Production movie, which was directed by Kishore Sahu had a star cast consisting of names like Kishore Sahu, Ramesh Gupta, Sumitra Devi, Jankidas, Reginald Jackson, Seema, Asha Mathur, Cuckoo, Moni Chatterji, Helen, Odette Ferguson, etc. The story line of this movie, as I have guessed from watching its songs is rather interesting. It shows an Indian man falling in love with an English woman and an English man returning the compliments by falling in love with an Indian woman.
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