Archive for the ‘Asha Bhonsle songs’ Category
“Hongkong”(1962), I am discovering, is full of some amazingly different kind of songs. These are all light hearted songs picturised on foreign locations.
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Hongkong China Mina Singapore
Posted on: March 13, 2012
“Hongkong” (1962) was produced and directed by A S Pachchi. The satrcast included Ashok Kumar, B Saroja Devi, Helen etc. This movie was one of the first movies that treated Indian movie goers to the sights of foreign locations, which was then a novelty in Hindi movies.
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Listening to well known old classics is a pleasurable exercise. But discovering old forgotten songs from old forgotten movies and listening to them is an equally and often more pleasurable exercise.
Here is a song which I discovered just now, more than half a century after this song was created.
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Ye parda hata do
Posted on: March 12, 2012
“Ek Phool Do Maali” (1969) was a Goel Cine Corporation movie. It was produced and dirdcted by Devendra Goel Production. Starcast of the movie included names viz Sanjay Khan, Sadhana, Balraj Sahni, Shabnam, Bobby, Manorama, Shyam Kumar, Brahmachari, Brahm Bharadwaj, Praveen Paul, Abu Baker, David Abraham, Durga Khote etc.
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Milti hai agar nazron se nazar
Posted on: March 12, 2012
“Do Dilon Ki Daastaan” (1966) is a forgotten movie by now. This movie was a Deep and Sandeep Production. It was directed by Pradeep Kumar. Starcast of the movie had names like Pradeep Kumar, Vyjyanti Mala, Om Prakash, Jagdeep, Rehman, Shashikala, B. Nandi, Nazir Hussain, Tuntun etc.
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Hai zindagi itni haseen
Posted on: March 12, 2012
“Apsara”(1961) is an obscure movie. Here are the details of this movie that our in house movie encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh had given in the past :-
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“Gharaana” (1961) was a Gemini Production movie. It was directed by S S Vasan. The movie had a starcast consisting of Rajendra Kumar, Asha Parekh, Raaj Kumar, Shobha Khote, Agha, Minu Mumtaz, Lalita Pawar, Kanhaiya Lal etc.
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“Agra Road” (1957) is not a movie too many people remember today. This was a B grade movie which was a Nagina Films Presentation. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. the movie had Vijay Anand, Shakila, Nanda, Satish Vyas, Krishnakant, Dhumal, Bhagwan, Amarnath, Nazi etc in it.
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Many of the songs that we discuss in this blog are those that we have heard in the past and we want to relive them and enjoy them again. There there is another kind of music, one that we may never have heard before for the simple reason that these songs did not become popular enough to get played on radio. With passage of time, these songs got buried under the sand of time, apparently for ever.
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Rangeen fizaa hai
Posted on: March 10, 2012
“Bahu Beti” (1965) was produced by Shatrujit Paul and directed by T Prakashrao. The movie had Joy Mukherjee, Mala Sinha, Ashok Kumar, Mehmood, Mumtaz, Dhumal, Achala Sachdev, Mukri, Ashish Kumar, Ratnamala, Chaman Puri, Anoop Kumar, Neelam, Shah, Brahm Bhardwaj etc in it.
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