Archive for the ‘Asha Bhonsle songs’ Category
Jaan gayee main to jaan gayee
Posted on: October 2, 2012
Today (2 october) is the birthday of Asha Parekh. It is only natural that we should greet her on this occasion by discussing some nice songs picturised on her.
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“Farishta” (1958) was a Pancholi Production movie. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari, Mubarak, Anita Guha, Sohrab Modi, Mehmood, Nana Palsikar, Sheikh Murad, Mridula etc in it.
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Parda hata de mukhda dikha de
Posted on: September 26, 2012
In 1960s, movies involving Mehmood had CSP (comic side plot) which often ran nearly as long as the main plot and that was supposed to be funny. In most of these CSPs, Shubha Khote would play Mehmood’s love interest and Dhumal would be her father.
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“Maaya Baazaar” (1958) was a Basant Pictures Production. It was directed by Babubhai Mistry. The movie had Anita Guha, Mahipal, Vasant Pahelwan, Raj Kumar (not the famous one), Ullhas, B. M. Vyas, Ramsingh, Indira etc.
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O babuaa ye mahuaa
Posted on: September 23, 2012
Today (23 september) is the 16th death anniversary of Vijayalakshmi Vadlapati (2 December 1960 – 23 September 1996), known popularly as Silk Smita.
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Isi sheher ki kisi galli mein
Posted on: September 21, 2012
This aricle is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog.
Going through Atul’s index of movie-wise songs I was astonished to find that so many film titles begin with “Mr.”. One “Mr.” title though I didn’t find there and that was Mr. Romeo (1974) . Till 2003 I hadn’t even known that such a movie existed till I saw its score on Music India Online. R. D. Burman has given the film a good score. He usually did that to for-us-now obscure films. It seems to be the launching vehicle for the leading lady Rinku Jaiswal. I think this was her only movie.
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Chalo kahin aur chalte hain
Posted on: September 20, 2012
When one talks of a movie called “Naya Daur”, one thinks of the B R Chopra movie of 1957 which had Dilip Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala in lead roles and which had lilting music by O P Nayyar.
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Today (19 september) is the death anniversary of Producer Tahir Hussain (19 september 1938-2 february 2010). He was the brother of noted producer Nasir Hussain. To the younger generation of movie goers, Tahir Hussain is the father of Aamir Khan. “Caravan” (1971), “Anamika” (1973), “Zakhmee” (1975) etc are some of the well known movies produced by Tahir Hussain.
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Tumse hi roshan hai raat meri
Posted on: September 18, 2012
Today (18 september) is the birthday of Shabana Azmi. Daughter of Kaifi Azmi and Shaukat Azmi, Shabana Azmi made her debut in arts movies in early 1970s. after a few years, she made it to the mainstream movies. She was a misfit in the usual leading lady kind of singing dancing roles, but she was good in roles that required some real acting. and she got roles that exploited her acting ability.
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