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Bhool jaayen saare gham
Posted on: May 16, 2009
“Nausherwaan e Adil” (1957) must be an Arabian Night’s tale, going by the title. But the makers of such historical/ mythological movies were not known to care much for authenticity. Thus we find the characters dressed in Greek dresses of a different era. And the biggest faux pas is Mala Sinha is seen wearing a cross !
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In 1970s, when Amitabh Bachchan ruled the roost, I found it perplexing that Amitabh Bachchan movies with silly plots did good business whereas movies which were truly good in my judgement failed at the box office. To my mind, movies like “The Great Gambler”, and “Deshpremi” weere better movies than say “Muqaddar ka Sikandar” and “Suhaag”, but that is not what the public thought at that time.
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I have posted a few songs from “Talaash” (1969) already and I mentioned that Lata was perhaps at her best while singing the songs of this movie.
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Mere deewanepan ki bhi dawaa nahin
Posted on: May 12, 2009
“Mehboob ki Mehandi”(1971) is a lesser known movie starring Rajesh Khanna and Leena Chandawarkar, but this movie is a musical blockbuster. I have posted a few songs from this movie, and each of these songs is a gem.
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Tere bina jiyaa jaaye naa
Posted on: May 11, 2009
Gulzar and R D Burman came together for the first time in “Parichay” (1972) and even since, they worked together in many movies till “Masoom” (1983) and gave us some memorable songs. One such movie, where they collaborated together was “Ghar” (1978).
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“Aankhen” appears to be a very popular title for a Bollywood movie. The debut movie of Madan Mohan was called “Aanken” and in the last one decade or so, we have had two movies by this name- one starring Govinda and another one starring Amitabh Bachchan.
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Suno Kaho Suna kaha kuchh huaa kyaa
Posted on: May 10, 2009
There is nothing like a song picturised on Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz to cheer one up.
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We have armchair critics in all fields, be it sports, driving, movies, and even singing. And often, the ignorance of these critics could be mind boggling.
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“Paaras” (1971) was a movie starring Sanjeev Kumar and Rakhi. This movie may have been forgotten, along with its songs. But one just needs to listen to the songs of this movie to realise what fine songs this movie had.
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Tere hothon ke do phool pyaare pyaare
Posted on: May 8, 2009
“Paaras” (1971) is a movie that has been forgotten with time. But 1971 being a year of musical blockbusters, even lesser known movies of those days used to have great songs. And this movie is no exception.
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