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“Night in London” (1967) is a movie that was clearly inspired from “An Evening in Paris” (1966). “Night in Paris” (1967) had Vishwajeet and Mala Sinha (as against Shammi Kapoor and Sharmila Tagore in “An Evening in Paris”). On the music front, “Night in London” had the fast rising Laxmikant Pyarelal.
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Aise to na dekho
Posted on: March 10, 2011
“Bheegi Raat” (1965) is a movie starring Pradeep Kumar and Meena Kumari. This movie is mainly known to me for its superb romantic songs.
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Wo dekho dekh rahaa thhaa papeehaa
Posted on: March 10, 2011
“Fariyaad” (1964) is by now a forgotten movie. This movie had Ashok Sharma, Zeb Rehman,Nazima, Tuntun, Achla Sachdev etc. The movie was different from the usual mainstream Hindi movies and it fared badly at the box office.
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I have discussed as many as five wonderful songs from “Waqt” (1965) in the past and yet this song was not one of them ! It just goes on to prove my point that this movie, in addition to being a multi starrer, was a musical blockbuster too.
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“Ghar Basaa Ke Dekho” (1963) is not a very well known movie. This less known B grade movie had Manoj Kumar and Rajshree in lead roles.
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Ham bhi hain tum bhi ho
Posted on: March 9, 2011
Though I have heard this song from “Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai” (1960) several times, I never gave it any serious thought. But now, when I tried to find more details about the song, I found that this song has to be a very special song indeed.
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Aurat ne janam diyaa mardon ko
Posted on: March 8, 2011
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog.
Ninety years ago, this day, the 8th of March, saw the birth of a certain Abdul Hayee in Ludhiana, Punjab.
It may seem like a routine event. After all, aren’t people born every day?
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Ye hawaa ye hawaa ye hawaa
Posted on: March 8, 2011
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog.
While posting the song “in hawaon mein” from Gumraah (1963) recently, I discussed at length my fascination for BR Chopra films. I will not repeat myself here but I will just say that most of his films had fabulous songs too.
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In this blog, I normally discuss songs from several artists unless it is a special occasion. On special occasions, depending on the nature of the occasion, songs may be from one genre or from one artist. Today (8 march) is a special occasion. It was on this day in 1921 that Sahir Ludhianvi was born.
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“Waqt” (1965) was the first multi starrer Hindi movie of the golden era. It had several leading stars of the time namely Sunil Dutt,Sadhana,Raj Kumar,Sharmila Tagore,Shashi Kapoor,Balraj sahni,Achla Sachdev etc. The story line, that had the big family of Balraj Sahni separating in an earthquake, only to meet again towards the end, may look hackneyed now, but it was a novelty those days.In fact, it was the story of this movie that led to multi-starrers, as well as lost and found movies of 1970s.
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