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The Bangla novel “Parineeta” has inspired the making of several films in Bangla as well as in Hindi. Some of these movies had the same titles as the title of the novel. Then there were movies with different titles too, but based on the same story.
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Maana teri nazar mein
Posted on: July 9, 2012
In the series of anniversaries today (9 july), here is the fourth anniversary of the day. Today is the birthday of Sulakshana Pandit.
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Murga murgi pyaar se dekhen
Posted on: July 8, 2012
When ordinary people want to go down memory lane in their personal lives, they need to look for their old photo albums. With movie personalities with long successful careers, all they need to do is to watch their old movies. In some cases, where these film personalities began early, viz as child artists, they can relive their childhood by watching these movies.
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Ab to aisa lagta hai
Posted on: July 5, 2012
“Roopsundari” (1964) as the name suggests was a mythological movie produced on a B grade budget.
Like most B grade movies of those days, the music was A grade.
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Pyaar ki pyaas
Posted on: July 5, 2012
“Pyaar Ki Pyaas” (1961) was a Anupam Chitra Production. It was produced by Pt Mukhram Sharma and Mahesh Kaul. Pt Mukhram Sharma wrote the story and Mahesh Kaul directed the movie. The movie had Manmohan Krishna, Nishi Kohli, Shrikant, Honey Irani, David Abraham, Manorama, Yashodhara Katju, Lal Bahadur, Gopi Krishna, Kamal Mehra, Indira Bansal, Dulari, Kathana, Hayat, Taneja etc.
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Dil ki baat kahin lab pe na aa jaaye
Posted on: July 3, 2012
When I was growing up in 1970s then I had propounded a theory about the actors and movie makers of Hindi movies. My thoery was that the movie makers needed to take the movie going janta for a ride by serving them fare that they liked. In cruder terms, movie going public had to be fooled into partonising their movies. And the movie makers needed to be on their toes because it was obviously not possible to keep serving them the same fare.
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Kaa jaanoon main sajaniyaa
Posted on: July 3, 2012
“Hum Paanch” (1980) was a S K Films Enterprises production. It was produced by Surinder Kapoor and directed by Bapu. The movie had an impressive cast consisting of Sanjeev Kumar, Kanhaiyyalal, Naseeruddin Shah, Mithun Chakraborty, Raj Babbar, Geeta Siddharth, Shabana Azmi, Uday Chandra,Deepti Naval, Gulshan Grover, Amrish Puri, Aruna Irani, A.K.Hangal, Roopesh Kumar, Sunder, C.S.Dubey, Harjeet, Dulari, Ranjeet Sood, Komal Soni, Gurbachan, Sunita, Dev Sharma, Suman, Meghdoot, Yasmin, Vinod, Jamboora, Aditya Sharma, Jugal Kishore, Amir Ali, Yusuf, Raju, C.L.Shah, Kalpana Iyer, Leena Das, Phiroza Cooper, Sujata Bakshi etc.
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Dhaley din aise
Posted on: July 3, 2012
“Laal Kothi” (1978) was a movie produced by Tollywood, as the Bangla movie industry is known. The movie was produced in Bangla and Hindi both. Most of the actors were from the Bangla film industry and/or those conversant with Bangla. This movie, produced under the banner of Peacock Films was produced by Ashis Roy. It was directed by Kanak Mukherji and Mohinder Batra. The starcast had Tanuja, Ranjit Mullick, Danny Denzongpa, Utpal Dutt, Anil Dhawan, Tarun Kumar, Master Partha Mukherjee, Swaraj Chatterjee, Arun, Ranjan Mukherjee, Gupte etc.
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Chori chori chupke chupke
Posted on: July 1, 2012
“Aap Ki Kasam” (1974) was a Filmyug Private Limited production. It was produced and directed by J Omprakash. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz, Sanjeev Kumar, Lolita Chatterjee, Rehman, Ranjeet, Asrani, Jayashree.T., Keshto Mukherjee, Dina Pathak, A.K.Hangal, Junior Mehmood, V.Gopal, Ruby Myers(aka senior Sulochana), Ratna, Master Chickoo, Murad, Sunder, Brahm Bhardwaj, Satyen Kappu etc in it.
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Ek baat poochhoon
Posted on: June 30, 2012
I am familiar with a movie called “Kathputli”(1957). But it turns out that there was another movie of the same name in 1971 too.
“Kathputli” (1971) was a Dynamo International Production. It was produced and directed by Brij. The movie had Jeetendra, Mumtaz, Mallika, Helen, Pran, Jalal Agha, Agha, Manmohan, Leela Mishra, Ashachandra, Dilip Dutt, Fazlu, Master Bhagwan, Kumud Tripathi, Harbans Darshan, M.Arora, Praveen Paul, Rajrani, Kundan, Radheshyam, Jerry etc in it.
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