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Marine Drive was a Sippy Films Production. It was produced and directed by G P Sippy. The movie had Ajit, Bina Rai, K.N.Singh, Vijayalaxmi, Johnny Walkar, Yakub, Om Prakash, Tuntun, Mohana, Anwar Hussain, Hari Shivdasani, Rajan Kapoor, Jankidas, Roopmala etc in it.
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“Jwaar Bhaata” (1973) was a Bahar Films Combines production. The movie was produced by Hargobind Duggal and directed by A Subba Rao. The movie had Dharmendra, Saira Bano, Sujit Kumar, Nazir Hussain, Jeevan, Sunder, Rajendra Nath, Shammi, Jayashree T, Meena T, Baby Guddi, Randhir, Sabina, Baby Pinky, Shivraj, Nazir Kashmiri, Moolchand, Nana Palsikar, Narbada Shankar, Sulochana Chatterjee, Johnny Whisky, Master Shahid, Bihari, Gulshan Bawra, Keshav Rana, Aziz, Mukthar Ahmed etc in it.
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“CID 909” (1967) was a Bindu Kala Mandir Production movie. The movie was produced by B D Kapoor and directed by Mohammad Hussain. The movie had Feroz Khan, Mumtaz, Bela Bose, Aruna,Roopesh Kumar, Rajan Haksar, Helen, Ram Mohan, Brahm Bhardwaj, Uma Dutt, Sherry(aka Mohan Sherry), Tuntun, Bela Bose, Paro, Paresh Kumar, Meenaxi, Rajan Kapoor, Master Shetty, Balaram, Nadir, Dhanraj, Kamal etc in it.
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“Mandi” (1983) was a Blaze Film Enterprises Production. It was produced by Lalit M Bijlani and Freni Variava. The movie was directed by Shyam Benegal. The movie had Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Saeed Jaffrey, Om Puri, Shreela Majumdar, Neena Gupta,, Geeta Siddharth, Sunila Pradhan, Soni Razdan, Anita Kanwar, Ratna Pathak, Pankaj Kapur, K.K.Raina, Satish Kaushik, Harish Patel, Ila Arun, Anu Kapoor, Aditya Bhattacharya, Ashay Chitre etc in it.
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This blog has more than one hundred “Helen” songs. In these songs, Helen would typically perform a cabarat dance and the hero would be seated on a table in the bar where this dance is being performed. I recently begin to wonder whether one can count the number of heroes who figure in such picturisations. I can recall many names right from Ashok Kumar (Howrah Bridge-1958) to Amitabh Bachchan (several movies). Then I reminded myself that Helen had started her cabarat dancing career in 1950s when the three big heroes were Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Dec Anand.
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When I began to follow movies in my younger days then at that time Rajesh Khanna was everyone’s favourite actor. Actors of the previous generation, viz Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand were considered as passe, especially by someone like me. I regarded Dev Anand as an old man trying to act as a youngster in his movies instead of acting in roles befitting his age.
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Prima Facie, it would appear that most Shammi Kapoor style movies starring Shammi Kapoor had music by Shankar Jaikishan. But that is not really the case. There have been several music directors compositing music for Shammi Kapoor’s movies beginning from “Tumsa Nahin Dekha” (1957) when Shammi Kapoor finally came into his own.
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