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Koi ye baat kya samjhe
Posted on: December 21, 2011
“Khilaadi” (1950) was a Talwar Films production. The movie had an impressive star cast consisting of Ashok Kumar, Suraiya, Kumar, Indu, E. Tarapore, Anoop Kumar, Narbada Shanker, Sunder, Cuckoo etc.
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“Majhdhaar” (1947) is a movie which I know nothing about. Whatever I know about this movie is from what is mentioned in the YT entry of this song. This movie was a Minerva Production and it was directed by Sohrab Modi. Star cast consisted of Surendra, Khursheed, Sadiq Ali, E Tarapore, Baby Tabassum, Rafiq Ghaznavi, Surekha etc.
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Mohe haay neend na aaye
Posted on: December 8, 2011
“Duhaai” (1943) is an extremely obscure movie. Information about this movie is just not available on internet. That was the case till I discussed a song from this movie.
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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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“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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More angnaa mein aaye aali
Posted on: November 15, 2011
“Vidyapati” (1937) is one of the earliest Hindi talkies and it is one that was a landmark movie of its time. It was produced by Calcutta’s New Theatre. This movie starred Pahadi Sanyal, Prithviraj Kapoor, Kanan Devi, K C Dey, K N Singh, Kidar Sharma, Nemo, Chhaaya Devi, Leela Desai etc.
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“Jagbeeti” (1946) is by now an extremely obscure movie. It was produced by Din pictures and it was directed by M Sadiq. The starcast of the movie, as mentioned in YT is Sadiq Ali, Auraiya, Shakir, Sulochana Chatterji, Abbas, Himalyawala.
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In 1970s, kids of my age (and for that matter much of the Indian population) who were used to movie songs of the kind popular in 1970s, found the singing style of old songs quite amusing. And Saigal’s singing style was the source of big mirth among people. There were people who would sing in Saigal style for the purpose of amusing themselves and others. Songs like “jab dil hi toot gaya” were “popular” for this purpose.
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Ek ladki bheegi bhaagi se
Posted on: November 10, 2011
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“Chalti Ka naam Gaadi” (1958) was a brainchild of Kishore Kumar. Legend has it that Kishore Kumar produced this movie to get over his tax problems. He wanted to produce a movie that he hoped would flop at the box office and that would enable him to balance his accounts for income tax purposes. He gave away the rights of this movie to his secretary Anoop Sharma who is credited as the Producer of this movie. The movie was directed by Satyen Bose and the movie included the three Ganguly brothers namely Ashok Kumar, Anoop Kumar and Kishore Kumar as well as the would be wife of Kishore Kumar namely Madhubala.
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“Village Girl” (1945) also known as “Gaaon Ki Gori”, is a movie which was a Ramneek Productions movie. It was directed by K Amarnath, who had also written the story and the screenplay of the movie. The star cast of the movie included names like Noorjehan, Nazir, Jagdish Sethi, Mishra, Shanta Patel, Ibrahim, Nawaz, Chandrika, Ghosh, Durga Khote, Rama Shukul, Ananth Marathe,Rajkumari Shukla, Bikram Kapoor, Geeta Nizami, Rajkumari Kapoor, Ghulam Rasool, M.A. Khan etc.
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