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Jaan e jaan dhoondhta phir rahaa
Posted on: July 3, 2012
Watching old Hindi movies (and its songs) is a good way to look back at the past and see how things were back then. Another way of looking back at the past is by going through the publications of those days.
I recall that I was an avid reader of books in my younger days, viz 1970s. I would read each and every book, whether they were meant for kids or grown ups. In addition to being an avid reader, I was an avid collectors of children’s magazines in Hindi. The children’s magazines in Hindi those days used to be “Bal Bhatri”, “Nandan”,”Champak”,”Parag”, “Lotpot”, Chandamama”, “Indrajaal Comics” etc. You name the children’s magazines and I collected them. I not only collected them, I catalogued them systematically too. They were my prized possessions. I would not be averse to get hold of magazines not in my collection, but I would be quite reluctatnt to lend my magazines to others, because the likelihood of the borrower returning the book were remote in most cases. One needed to pester the borrower hard, sometimes by visiting his home, before one could get your book back.
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Kaa jaanoon main sajaniyaa
Posted on: July 3, 2012
“Hum Paanch” (1980) was a S K Films Enterprises production. It was produced by Surinder Kapoor and directed by Bapu. The movie had an impressive cast consisting of Sanjeev Kumar, Kanhaiyyalal, Naseeruddin Shah, Mithun Chakraborty, Raj Babbar, Geeta Siddharth, Shabana Azmi, Uday Chandra,Deepti Naval, Gulshan Grover, Amrish Puri, Aruna Irani, A.K.Hangal, Roopesh Kumar, Sunder, C.S.Dubey, Harjeet, Dulari, Ranjeet Sood, Komal Soni, Gurbachan, Sunita, Dev Sharma, Suman, Meghdoot, Yasmin, Vinod, Jamboora, Aditya Sharma, Jugal Kishore, Amir Ali, Yusuf, Raju, C.L.Shah, Kalpana Iyer, Leena Das, Phiroza Cooper, Sujata Bakshi etc.
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Chadhe chanda to tum bhi chale aana
Posted on: July 3, 2012
“Aplam Chaplam” (1961) is a movie about which very little is known. Fortunately we can count on our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh to provide us all the details about such obscure movies. Here is what he has to say about “Aplam Chaplam” (1961):-
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Kal saajnaa milna yahaan
Posted on: July 2, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I dont know how it is that I am finding songs penned by Majrooh Sultanpuri again and again. The song which is under discussion is from the film “Ardhangini”. From the other songs posted here and seen on youtube it is seen that this film stars Meena Kumar and Raj Kumar, and from the title and songs I assume this to be similar type of social film like ‘Aarti”.
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Dekh idhar ae haseenaa
Posted on: July 2, 2012
“12 O’Clock” (1958) was a Sippy Films Production. It was directed by Pramod Chakravarty. The movie had Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Shashikala, Johnny Walker, Tuntun, Helen, Hari Shivdasani, Rajen Kapoor, Abrar Alvi etc in it.
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Ek baat poochhoon
Posted on: June 30, 2012
I am familiar with a movie called “Kathputli”(1957). But it turns out that there was another movie of the same name in 1971 too.
“Kathputli” (1971) was a Dynamo International Production. It was produced and directed by Brij. The movie had Jeetendra, Mumtaz, Mallika, Helen, Pran, Jalal Agha, Agha, Manmohan, Leela Mishra, Ashachandra, Dilip Dutt, Fazlu, Master Bhagwan, Kumud Tripathi, Harbans Darshan, M.Arora, Praveen Paul, Rajrani, Kundan, Radheshyam, Jerry etc in it.
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“First Love”(1961) was a Natraj production movie. It was directed by Ved Mohan. The movie had Mehmood, Preetibala, Naaz, Raj Mehra, Amar etc in it.
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Bade achche lagte hain
Posted on: June 27, 2012
“Baalika Badhu” (1976) which means “Child Bride” was a remake of a Bangla movie of the same name which was made in 1950s and where Mausami Chatterji had played the title role. Mausami Chatterji, after looking at Rajni Sharma felt that Rajni Sharma looked much more immature (and thus more suitable) for the role of the child bride.
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“Chhote Sarkar”(1974) is quite an obscure movie by now, which is a surprise seeing that this movie had Shammi Kapoor and Sadhana in lead roles.
The fact that the movie was released in 1974, by which time both Shammi Kapoor and Sadhana were past their prime as lead actors, may be the reason for the obscurity of this movie. The movie was obviously planned to be released in 1960s, but the movie could not be released for various reasons. By the time it finally saw the light of the day in 1974, it was too late. The taste of the movie goers had changed drastically in the interim period. As a result, this movie sank almost without a trace.
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I realised it recently that the songs of “Sangam” (1964), which was a musical extravaganza of its time, are under represented in the blog. So far only four songs from this movie have been discussed and several well known songs from the movie are still at large.
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