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“Dilruba”(1950) is a movie which was produced by Lotus Orient Films. It was directed by Dwarka Khosla. The star cast of the movie included names like Dev Anand, Rehana, Cuckoo, Yakub, Balam, Achla Sachdev, Gogia Pasha etc.
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Though 1950 was “only” six decades ago, it looks like that was an entirely different world altogether from what it is today. For one, things were much simpler and un complicated and moreover, people seemed to have all the time in the world at their disposal. Imagine riding on a slow moving bullock cart and taking entire day to cover a distance of may be 15 miles, that one can now cover in a few minutes. Yes, one used to measure distances in miles those days.
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Chhota sa sansaar hamaaraa
Posted on: May 15, 2011
“Zameendaar” (1942) is a movie that was produced far far back in time. One can notice that this movie was produced in the year when Indians passed the Quit India resolution against their British rulers. Yes, this movie goes that far back in Indian history.
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Tere jahaan se ham chale
Posted on: April 15, 2011
“Inquilaab” (1956) is a movie whose songs were discovered by me only recently. And what music this song had !
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Jeewan se lambe hain bandhu
Posted on: April 10, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of articles to this blog.
The super Manna Dey song from Aashirwaad, 1968. Lyrics are by Gulzar and music is by Vasant Desai.
The lyrics of this song are just superb, very characteristic Gulzar poetry, use of very simple words, communicating a very profound ideas. The lines “saans ki dori chhoti pad gayee, lambi aas dagariyaa” is such a warm and touching thought, said so simply.
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I have discussed a railgaadi (Train) song where hero and heroine are seated on a haystack kept on a freight train. The train is in motion and the duo are singing a song accompanied by the rhythmic beat generated by the train.
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Rajesh Khanna, who was born on 29th December 1942, made his mark as a superstar in Hindi movies sometime in the second half of 1969, when “Aradhana” (1969) was released. This movie gave him an identity and a persona which became his trademark.
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This is a very well known song- in fact an iconic song. This song is a bullock cart song sung by Mukesh. All these days I thought that this song was from a Raj Kapoor movie. So it came as a surprise to me when I realised that this song is actually from a Dilip Kumar movie.
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I have posted many songs in this blog where the hero and heroine are going on a drive and the hero (if he is a singing type, viz Dev Anand) bursts into a song. Then we have cases of historical/ mythological movies where the duo are riding on a chariot. If the hero is a non-singing type (like Dara Singh) then the onus of singing falls on the tender shoulders of the heroine (typically Mumtaz).
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I was under the impression that I had posted this song from “Teesri Kasam” long back. So I was very suprised on being informed that this song was not yet posted.
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