Archive for the ‘joie de vivre’ Category
Jiya lehar lehar lehraaye
Posted on: April 28, 2013
“Sansaar” (1951) was a Gemini Pictures production. It was directed by S S Vasan. The movie had Ishwarlal, M. K. Radha, Vanaja, Mohana, Agha, Meera, J. S. Kashyap, Anil Kumar, Kalla, Ratnappa, Pushpavalli, Swaraj, David Abraham etc in it.
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Aaj hai holi aaj deewaali
Posted on: March 27, 2013
Today (27 march 2013) is the festival of Holi. This is the fifth Holi for this blog ! Majority of well known Holi songs from Hindi movies have been covered during the last four such occasions. Those are the songs that one gets to listen from all radio and TV stations that play Holi songs. But we in this blog, unlike radio and TV, cannot repeat the same songs and we have to discuss “new” as yet undiscussed songs on every occasion.
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“Gaban” (1966) was a B J Production movie. It was produced by B N Sonthalia and R K Sorel and directed by Krishan Chopra and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Sadhana, Zeb Rehman, Minoo Mumtaz, Agha, Kanhaiyalal, Anwar Hussain, Badri Prasad, Leela Mishra, P. Kailash, Pratima Devi, Kamal Kapoor, Misra, Sarita Devi, B. B. Bhalla, Brahm Bhardwaj, Surekha Pandit, R K Soral, Ravikant, Kailash Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Sandeep, Mohsin Abdullah, Haroon, Laxmi Arya, R S Dubey, Meenakshi, Saroj Banerjee, Mehar Banu, C. S. Dubey, Assi Dutt, Mukund Banerjee, Deenanath, Shekhchand, Hakeem Lateef, Ranjit, Polson, Hashmat Rai, Rajiv D Grover, Bela Agha, Baldev Mehta, Ratan Gaurang, Abdul, Krishan Chopra, Moolchand etc in it.
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Aaye re din saawan ke
Posted on: March 14, 2013
“Gaban” (1966) was based on a Munshi Premchand Novel of the same name. It was a B J Production movie which was produced by B N Sonthalia and R K Sorel and directed by Krishan Chopra and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Sadhana, Zeb Rehman, Minoo Mumtaz, Agha, Kanhaiyalal, Anwar Hussain, Badri Prasad, Leela Mishra, P Kailash, Pratima Devi, Kamal Kapoor, Misra, Sarita Devi, B B Bhalla, Brahm Bhardwaj, Surekha Pandit, R K Soral, Ravikant, Kailash Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Sandeep, Mohsin Abdullah, Haroon, Laxmi Arya, R S Dubey, Meenakshi, Saroj Banerjee, Mehar Banu, C S Dubey, Assi Dutt, Mukund Banerjee, Deenanath, Shekhchand, Hakeem Lateef, Ranjit, Polson, Hashmat Rai, Rajiv D Grover, Bela Agha, Baldev Mehta, Ratan Gaurang, Abdul, Krishan Chopra, Moolchand etc in it.
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Tim tima tim tim tima tim taare
Posted on: March 10, 2013
“Har Har Mahadev” (1950) was produced and directed by Jayant Desai. the movie had Trilok Kapoor and Nirupa Roy in lead roles with Misra, Durga Khote, Shanta Kanwar, Jeevan, Niranjan Sharma, Vicky Kapoor etc also there in the movie.
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Today (1 march 2013) is the 63rd birth anniversary of Amit Khanna. On this occasion, here is a song from “Manpasand” (1980). This movie was produced b y Amit Khanna and directed by Basu Chatterji for the banner of Film Unit. The movie had Dev Anand, Tina Munim, Girish Karnad, Mehmood, Simple Kapadia etc in it.
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Matwaala jiyaa doley piyaa
Posted on: December 26, 2012
“Mother India” (1957) was a movie that was released before I was born. So this movie is from an era before my time. I first watched this movie in late 1970s in its nth re run in a dilapidated movie hall. Moreover I was not much into old movies in those days and I went to watch this movie so that I may be able to say that I had seen this movie. 🙂
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Ab chaar dinon ki chhutti hai
Posted on: December 22, 2012
“Aas Ka Panchhi” (1961) was a Filmyug Production movie. It was directed by Mohan Kumar. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Vyjyanti Mala, Leela Chitnis, Shaminder, Raj Mehra, Nazir Hussain, Shivraj, Mumtaz Begum, Sunder etc in it.
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Kyaa huaa ye mujhe kyaa huaa
Posted on: December 10, 2012
“Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai” (1960) was an R K Films Production. It was produced by Raj Kapoor and directed by Radhu Karmarkar. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Padmini, Pran, Chanchal, Lalita Pawar, Raj Mehra, Tiwari, Nana Palsikar, Nayampalli, Salochana Chatterjee, Vishwa Mehra, Baboo Rao, S. K. Singh, Rattan Gaurang, Chang, Mohamed Ali, Anwari Bai, Sadhana, Azim, Master Amar etc in it.
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“Karwat” (1949) is by now an obscure movie. This movie was a Shree Gopal Pictures production movie. It was directed by Prakash. The movie had Bhagwan, Satish, Leela Gupte, Baburao, Deepak, Ratanpriya, Anwari, Vasantrao etc in it.
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