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Jabse laagi tose najariyaa
Posted on: March 6, 2012
I often get confused between the two similarly named movies of 1960s, viz “Shikaar” and “Shikaari”. The confusion is compounded by the fact that both movies had similar storylines, where the hero would go to a jungle for “shikaar” where he would enounter tribals wearing Red Indian/ African kinds of heargears etc and the daughter of the chief would be the chief female dancer among the tribal dance troupe that would sing and dance at the drop of a spear.
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Man bhaawan ke ghar jaaye gori
Posted on: March 6, 2012
I have heard this song many a times and liked this song too, but all this while I was totally unaware about the details of this song. Now that I have heard this song again, I recall that this song was one of the songs that Sunil Gavaskar had played during the Vishesh Jaimala programme on Vividh Bharati in 1975.
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Laayi kahaan hai zindagi
Posted on: February 23, 2012
Yesterday Peevesie’s mom made her debut as a lyrics contributor by sending the lyrics of a song from “Taxi Taxie” (1977). The movie may be of recent vintage, but little information is available about this movie. That is where we can always log on to our inhouse encyclopaedia and get all the details. Here is what our walking encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh has to say about this movie:-
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“Jahaan Ara”(1964) is a movie that flopped big time at the box office. This movie was not meant for ordinary movie goers and the people appreciative of such movies did not add up to much those days.
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Dil dai dai o naa lai lai
Posted on: December 20, 2011
“Senapati” (1961) is a movie I know nothing about. This extremely obscure movie was a Mohla films production. It was directed by Kedar Kapoor. Starcast of the movie included names like Prithviraj Kapoor, Nalini Jaiwant, Amarnath, Tiwari, Durga Khote, K. N. Singh, Veena etc.
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Aji chale aao aji chale aao
Posted on: December 20, 2011
There are several well known songs that I believe have already been covered in the blog but I often turn out to be wrong in my belief.
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Hamre gaaon koi aayegaa
Posted on: November 29, 2011
“Professor” (1962) was an Eagle Films presentation. It was directed by Lekh Tandon. The star cast included Shammi Kapoor, Kalpana, Praveen choudhry, Salim, Iftekhar, Lalita Pawar, Pratima Devi, Tuntun etc.
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“Mayur Pankh”(1954) is a movie produced by Sahu Films and directed by Kishore Sahu. The movie had Kishore Sahu,Sumitra Devi, Helen, David, Asha Mathur, Seema, Cuckoo, Ramesh Gupta, Odette Ferguson etc in it.
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Karva chauth is a festival mainly associated with womenfolk, and as a result it is often forgotten by men. It is similar to men forgetting their wedding anniversaries, wife’s birthday etc. What does one do, when one realises this fact late ? One hurries up to make amends. And that is what I am trying to do just now. I have realised late that today is Karwa chauth festival, and so at this late hour, I am trying to push through some karwa chauth festival songs. 🙂
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“Do Phool”(1958) is a movie with some delightful songs in it. I just discovered a very nice song in this movie.
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