Archive for the ‘Bhajan’ Category
“Kismat” (1943) was the first ever multistarrer Hindi movie. It had Ashok Kumar and Mumtaz Shanti in lead roles.
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Charan tumhaare phool hamaare
Posted on: April 18, 2011
“Narsimha Avtaar” (1949), as the name suggests, was a religious/ mythological movie. This movie was produced by Minerva Movietone. It was directed by Sohrab Modi and it had actors like Laxman, Niranjan Sharma, Shobhana Samarth, Mahipal, Tiwari, Madan Mohan,Hari Shivdasani, Kamal etc in it.
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“Bilwamangal” (1954) is a movie that was based on the life of the blind poet Surdas. K C Dey, a blind artist of Hindi movies had played the title role.
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Madhubala (born 19 feb 1933) made her screen debut at a very young age of about 8-9 years in 1942 in the movie “Basant” as a child artist under the name of Baby Mumtaz. She worked under this name for the next few years as a child artist. She began working in grown up roles in late 1940s, when she was barely 15 years of age, and it was sometime in late 1940s- early 1950s that she was given the screen name of Madhubala with which she is known today.
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Anokhaa jaadoogar Bhagwaan
Posted on: February 13, 2011
The 1975 blockbuster movie “Sholay” needs no introduction, but few people are aware that a movie of the same name was also made in 1953. This movie “Shole” (1953) had Ashok Kumar ,Beena Rai ,Poornima ,Manmohan Krishna ,Jeewan ,Mirza Musharraf,Baby Naaz etc in it.
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Kare na jo bandon se pyaar
Posted on: January 23, 2011
There have been several Hindi movies called “Bandhan”. The oldest such movie was “Bandhan” (1938) which had music by Saraswati Devi. Then there was a Rajesh Khanna starrer “Bandhan” (1969) that had music by Kalyanji Anandji.
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Badi der bhai badi der bhai
Posted on: October 28, 2010
I have discussed six songs from “Basant Bahaar” (1956) in the past and all those were iconic songs. I thought that there were no more songs, and certainly no more iconic songs left in the movie to be discussed.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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