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“Kahaani Ham Sab Ki”(1973) was produced and directed by Raj Kumar Kohli. The movie had Mala Sinha, Lalita Pawar, Aruna Irani, Roopesh kumar,Jagdeep, Om Prakash, Arun Chopra, Vinod Mehra, Abhi Bhattacharya,Madan Puri,Vimi, Archana etc in it. This movie, going by its star cast was smaller budget movie that few people, including myself, knew much about.
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Kaanta laago re sajanwaa
Posted on: September 14, 2012
“Basant” (1942) was a Bombay Talkies production. It was directed by Amiya Chakraborty. The movie had Ulhas, Mumtaz Shanti, Mumtaz Ali,Pramila, Jagannath, Suresh, Baby Mumtaz (Madhubala), Kanu Roy, Pithawala etc in it.
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Ae dil e beqaraar bol
Posted on: September 14, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Shamim (also known as Shamim Bano and Shamim Kamal Pasha) was one of the female actors who was active in the 40s as a heroine/side heroine. She was the niece of Khursheed Bano, one of the top singer-actor of the 40s. I was not aware of Shamim until I found her name mentioned in Kidar Sharma’s autobiography ‘The One and Lonely Kidar Sharma’. There is a trivia mentioned in this book about selecting Shamim as the heroine of the film ‘Armaan’ (1942). Kidar Sharma insisted that Motilal and Shamim would be his hero and heroine for the film. Chandulal Shah, the owner of Ranjit Movietone said “ if you take Shamim, Khursheed will never work with you in any films as she is very jealous of her young and charming niece”.
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I wonder if someone has ever tried to analyse why people like some songs and not other songs. Why do some songs become timeless classic while others are forgotten after their initial run.
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“Chaandni” (1989) was a Yashraj Pictures production. It was produced and directed by Yash Chopra. The movie had Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Sridevi, Bharat Bhushan, Juhi Chawla, Sridevi, Anupam Kher, Sushma Seth, Anupam Kher, Beena, Renu Arya, Mita Vashist, Manju Maini, Asha Sharma, Anant Mahadevan, Ram Gopal Bajaj, Shyam Arora, Manohar Singh, Achala Sachdev, Lalit Tiwari, Suhas Joshi, Ram Maini, Idris Malik, etc in it.
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“Aurat” (1953) was a Verma Production movie. It was produced by Munshi Ram Verma and directed by Bhagwan Das Verma. The movie had Premnath, Bina Rai, Purnima, Ullhas, Hiralal, Roopmala, Nazirabai, Mirabai, Devkishan, Mirza, S. Pratap, Shanta Patel, Nazir Kashmiri, Rajkishore etc in it.
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Udi hawaa mein jaati hai
Posted on: September 11, 2012
“Achhoot Kanya” (1936) was made at an era far far removed from the present day. It was produced by Bombay Talkies. Its producer was Himanshu Rai and it was directed by a German director called Franz Osten. It was a case of an indophile German directing a Hindi movie on a sensitive topic like untouchability and doing a great job. And those were the days when India was under British occupation too. And Ashok Kumar, a lab assistant with Bombay Talkies found himself being made the hero of the movie when the heroine Devika Rani eloped with the original hero, only to come back subsequently. And she was the wife of Himanshu Rai ! And the music director of this movie, a Parsi lady faced stiff resistance from members of her community who were against her decision of joining the film line as a music director.
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Yahi bahaar hai
Posted on: September 10, 2012
“Raag Rang” (1952) was produced under the banner of Bali Sisters (Geeta Bali and Sudha Bali). The movie was directed by Digvijay and the movie had Ashok Kumar, Geeta Bali, Agha, Madan Puri, Sunder, Ruma Guha Thakurta etc in it. Three songs from this movie have been discussed in the past. Here is another song from “Raag Rang”(1952).
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Tum chaand ke saath chale aao
Posted on: September 10, 2012
“Aashiaana”(1952) was a Sabharwal’s production. It was directed by B Trilochan. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Iftekhar, Mohana, Randhir etc in it.
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Dhadak dhadak dil dhadke
Posted on: September 10, 2012
“Daastaan” (1950) was a Musical Pictures presentation. It was directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Suraiya, Raj Kapoor, Murad, Al Nasir, Veena, Suresh, Protima Devi, Shakila, Banerji, Lakshman, Surinder, Baby Anwari, Krishna Kumar etc in it.
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