Archive for the ‘Lyrics by Prakashchandra’ Category
O jaadoogar pyaar ke ye bataa
Posted on: November 22, 2011
“Ek Dil Sau Afsaane” (1963) is a Talwar Films presentation. It was directed by R C Talwar. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Lalita Pawar, Mridula, Sulochana Chatterji, Sadhana Choudhry, Vishwa Mehra etc in it.
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Recently , while discussing a mujra song composed by R D Burman, I made this observation that R D Burman had composed very few songs of this genre.
Now I have been given a list of lots and lots of mujra songs compositions of R D Burman by Prakashchandra. In fact he sent me the lyrics of a mujra song from the debut movie of R D Burman. Now I am suitably humbled by all this information which was not known to me.
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Taqdeer kahaan le jaayegi
Posted on: November 21, 2011
“Saanjh Aur Sawera” (1964) is a S J Films presentation. It was produced by Sevanti Lal Shah and the movie was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The sar cast included Meena Kumari, Gurudutt, Mehmood, Shubha Khote, Manmohan krishna, Ruby Paul (aka Praveen paul), Padmadevi,Preethi Bala(aka Zeb Rehman),Jagdev,Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Kanu Roy, Rashid Khan etc.
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Jaane kyaa ho jaaye
Posted on: November 20, 2011
“Aainaa” (1974) , despite being a movie of recent vintage by the standards of this blog is quite an obscure movie. Different sources are not even clear about the year of release of this movie.
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“Kotwal Sahab” (1977) is a movie which is directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. This movie was different from the usual Hrishikesh Mukherji movies. Instead of his usual his usual breezy, humerous, sensitive kind of direction that one is used to, Hrishikesh Mukherji has took up a more serious topic in this movie. In this movie, Shatrughan Sinha is a no nonsence honest police officer. His wife Aparna Sen has a dark past and she does not know how to share that past with her husband, because she fears that it may complicate matters. Utpal Dutt, playing a unscrupulous politician who is aware of Aparna Sen’s past is out there to take advantage of her plight.
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Bandhan toote na sanwariya
Posted on: November 8, 2011
“Mom Ki Gudiya” (1973) is a movie that was produced and directed by Mohan Kumar. The movie had Tanuja, Ratan Chopra, Jeevan, Helen, Tuntun, Premnath, Nazeer Hussain, Paaro, Brahmchari, Raj Mehra, Meena T, Brahma Bhardwaj, Rashid Khan etc in it.
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“Mere Sanam” (1965) was a Sippy Films Production. G P Sippy was the producer of this movie and Amar Kumar directed the movie. Star cast of this movie included names like Biswajeet, Asha Parekh, Nazir Hussain, Achala Sachdev, Asit Sen, Pran, Mumtaz, Rajendranath, Dev Kishan, Laxmi Chhaaya etc.
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“Chhoti Si Mulaaqaat” (1967) was a movie produced by a production house called Our Movies. Uttam Kumar, by now a legend in Bangla movies was the producer and the movie was directed by Alo Sarkar. The movie had Vyjayanthi mala, Uttam kumar, Yogita Bali, Rajendranath, Veena, Shashikala, Tarun Bose
Pratima Devi, Badri Prasad, Sulochana Chatterjee, Ratan Gaurang, Praveen Paul, Radheshyam,Sanjeev Kumar etc in this movie. This movie was based on a Bangla story “Agnipariksha” written by Ashapoorna Devi.
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Beete na beete na rainaa
Posted on: November 6, 2011
Bhupen Hazarika (DOB 8 september 1926) died yesterday (5th november 2011) at the age of 85. A well known name in Hindi movie world for his contributions, he was a legendary figure in Assam. He sang his first movie song at the age of 12 in an Assamese movie which was only the second Assamese movie to be produced. He was a multi skilled artist who has been associated with movies as playbacksinger,lyricist, music director, Producer, writer as well as actor.
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Man re tu hi bataa kyaa gaaun
Posted on: November 4, 2011
There are occasions when a couple may have strained relations and they may not be on talking terms with each other. But they are required to put up a facade of normalcy in front of their acquaintances. This song is a lovely picturisation of that nature. It is a get together party and the friends of Rajendra Kumar want Jamuna to sing a song. Rajendra Kumar, who otherwise would not speak to her, is contrained to request her to sing a song. Jamuna, with a heavy heart, is forced to sing this song.
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