Archive for the ‘Lyrics by Prakashchandra’ Category
“First Love” (1961) is a Natraj Production movie. It was directed by Vedmohan. This by now obscure movie had actors like Mehmood, Preetibala (Zeb Rehman), Naaz, Raj Mehra, Amar etc in it.
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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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Dil aisa kisi ne mera todaa
Posted on: December 16, 2011
Here is another song from my school days (1970s) that should have made it to this blog long back but somehow it did not. Perhaps I was subconsciously saving this song and other songs of those days.
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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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“Maine Jeena Seekh Liya” (1959) is a movie which was produced by Filmistan. It was directed by Satish Nigam and the star cast had names like Ameeta, Ravindra Kapoor, Durga Khote, Agha, Badri Prasad, P.Kailash, Kanu Roy etc in it.
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Guzre hain aaj ishq mein
Posted on: December 10, 2011
“Dil Diya Dard Liya” (1966) is one of the first “old” movies that I became aware of as a pre teen kid, and my impression about old movies being melancholic stuff was mainly based on this movie, its songs and also its title.
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Mat jaiyyo naukariyaa chhod ke
Posted on: December 8, 2011
“Do Badan” (1965) is a J B Films presentation. This movie was directed by Raj Khosla. The star cast had Manoj Kumar, Asha Parekh, Pran, Dhumal, Simi Garewal, Mohan Choti, Manmohan Krishna, Wasti, , Huda Bihari, etc in it.
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Jaane kahaan gayee
Posted on: December 7, 2011
From the title of the movie, this movie “Dil Apna Aur Preet Paraayi” (1960) appears a melancholic movie. But from the songs of this movie, this to be appears a fantastic movie.
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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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