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When Bappi Lahiri began his career as a music director in mid 1970s, I thought that he was a music director in the sameleague as R D Burman. Considering that I, as well as the rest of India was totally in love with R D Burman’s music, that was high praise indeed.
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Moti jaisa rang ang mein
Posted on: March 26, 2011
“Aansoo aur Muskaan” (1970) is a movie that most people (or at least I) remember for just one reason, viz Kishore Kumar’s fantastic comedy song Guni janon bhakt janon.
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Doley jhumka moraa
Posted on: March 26, 2011
I could have sworn that I had this category called “Jhumka” song in this blog, but I was wrong. I had “ghunghroo” catgory, but not “jhumka” category which is clearly an oversight on my part.
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“Pyaase Panchhi” (1960) is a movie starring Mehmood and Ameeta. Most probably this movie met the same fate as most movies that had Mehmood as the hero, viz the movie failed at the box office.
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Ik baar agar tu kah de
Posted on: March 22, 2011
“Malhaar” (1951) is quite a musical blockbuster of its time which firmly established Roshan’s credentials as a high quality music director.
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Here is a song that wears many hats. this song is a romantic/love song. In addition, this song is also a jeep song, and also an “elephant” song. Yes, the protagonists of this song, viz Jeetendra and Aparna Sen are expressing their love for each other while driving on a jeep and also while riding an elephant.
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Aaja rasiyaa man basiyaa
Posted on: March 16, 2011
When it comes to titles for Hindi movies, most of these titles are one to three words long and then tend to have certain common Hindi/Urdu words in them. Combination of an adjective like Badi/Chhoti plus a noun for a woman itself may yield half a dozen or more titles. Then using words like Afsaanaa/fasaanaa/Kahaani either alone or in combination of a few other words leads to many titles. The possibilities are in fact endless.
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“Apsara”(1961) is an obscure movie and few details are available about this movie. This movie had Pradeep Kumar,Nirupa Roy,Padmini,B M Vyas,Maruti,Daljeet etc. in it.
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Though I have heard about movies called “Daag”, I was not aware of a movie called “Bedaag”. But yes, there is indeed one such movie that was released in 1965. Unlike “Daag”(1952) which had Dilip Kumar and Nimmi and “Daag” (1973) which had Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore,”Bedaag”(1965) did not have the reigning superstar of the day in its cast. This movie had Manoj Kumar and Nanda in lead roles.
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