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Hamko tumse pyaar hai
Posted on: December 20, 2011
“Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye” (1963) is a movie produced by Y T U Baria Films. K Parvez was the director and the star cast of the movie included names like Mehmood, Shakila, Johnny Walker, Omprakash, Poornima, Sheila Kashmiri, Shammi, Anwar Hussain, Brahm, Amar, Altaf, Dilip Dutt, Baby Devika, Jeevankala, Madhumathi, Kallan, Babu Raje etc.
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“Madaari” (1959) was a quintessential B grade movie. Such movies normally remained confined to their dedicated fans and failed to register among the mainstream movie watchers. But in some rare cases, the songs of such movies became so popular that mainstream movie watchers were made to sit up and take notice.
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During the period from 1940s to 1960s, we often had titles of Hindi movies based on Railways. Thus we had movies titled “Station Master” (1942), ” Rail Ka Dibba” (1953), “Railway Platform” (1955) , “The Train” (1970) etc. Much later in 1980s, we had a few more Railway based titles, viz “The Burning Train” (1980) and “Coolie” (1983).
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Jab raat nahin kat’ti
Posted on: December 18, 2011
“Changez Khan” (1957) was a B grade movie which was produced by N C Films. Kedar Kapoor was the director and the star cast included names like Premnath,Bina Rai,Helen, Johnny Walker, Tiwari, Sheikh Mukhtar, Jeevan, Leela Misra etc.
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“Kaali Ghata” (1951) was a Hindustan Chitra production. It was directed by Kishore Sahu. The movie had Kishore Sahu, Bina Rai, Asha Mathur, Gope, Ulhas, Samson, Jeevan, Cuckoo, etc in it.
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Phir teri kahaani yaad aayi
Posted on: December 15, 2011
“Dil Diya Dard Liya” (1966) is an archtypical Dilip Kumar movie. At least that is how it appeared to me when I became aware of this movie in my younger days. This movie was being shown in an open space in my colony for free. Young kids like me and my friends , after suffering through the movie for almost half the lenth of the movie, could take it no more and decided to call it quits. “What is all this pyar vyaar, rona dhona, why cannot the hero indulge in some maar dhaad instead”, our leader wondered aloud, and the rest of the kids whole heartedly agreed.
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Kaahe ko byaahi bides
Posted on: December 8, 2011
“Heer Ranjha”(1948) is a movie which was produced by Punjab Film Corporation. This movie was directed by Wali Sahab. The movie had Ghulam Mohammed, Shree Nath, Roop Kamal, Gulab Majnu, Aziz Kashmiri etc in it.
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“Pinjre Ke Panchhi” (1966) is a movie which is a Shobha Chitra Production. M C Ananthraj was the producer and this movie was directed by Salil Chaudhary. The star cast of this movie included names like Meena Kumari, Baljraj Sahni, Mehmood, Abhi Bhattacharya,Shaukat Azmi, Asit Sen, Keshto Mukherjee, Ifthekar, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Yunus Parwez, Poonam etc.
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“Munimji”(1955) was a movie produced by Filmistan and directed by Subodh Mukherji. This movie had Dev Anand, Nalini Jaywant, Pran, Nirupa Roy, Kanu Roy, Ameeta, Prabhu Dayal ,S. L. Puri, Samar Chatterji etc in it.
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It has been mentioned by several readers that Dev Anand appeared almost immortal to them and it was inconceivable to them that he could ever die. But time and tide waits for none and everyone has to succumb some day. Dev Anand breathed his last on 3rd of december 2011 at the age of 88. He led an active life till the end. His zest for life and his youthful exuberance is something that is difficult to emulate for most people. With time , he had lost weight and had shrunk as was bound to happen, but his mental faculties continues to be sharp and he could still walk on his feet. Most people can only dream of such physical fitness if they ever live up to that age.
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