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Mil jaa re jaan e jaanaa
Posted on: October 6, 2012
“Benazir” (1964) was a Bimal Roy Production movie which was directed by S Khalil. This movie had Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari, Shashi Kapoor, Tanuja, Nirupa Roy, Durga Khote, Asit Sen, Tarun Bose etc in it.
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“Hoor e Arab”(1955) was an All India Pictures Production. This movie was directed by P N Arora. The movie had Pradeep Kumar, Chitra, Sajjan, Shashikala, Om Prakash, Gope etc in it.
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Mujhe bhool jaana agar ho sakey
Posted on: October 5, 2012
“Taqdeer” (1967) was a nice movie which was produced by Rajshree Productions and directed by A Salaam. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Shalini, Kamal Kapoor, Farida Jalal, Kajal, Sushil, Jalal Agha, Ajay, Dinesh, Dilip Dutt, Champakala, Subhash Ghai etc in it.
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“Raj Tilak”(1958) was a Gemini Combines production. It was directed by S S Vasan. The movie had Shivaji Ganeshan, Vyjyanti Mala, Padmini, Lalita Pawar, Durga Khote, Bipin Gupta, Master Romi, Pran, Jagirdar, Meenakshi, Manmohan Krishna, Kumar, Agha, Shammi etc in it.
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I am told that a section of movie watchers in the past were addicted to melancholism the same way some people are addicted to alcoholism. They would watch sad melancholic movies and come out of the movie hall immensely satisfied after shedding bucketful of tears during their stay in the movie hall.
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“Dhoop Chhaaon”(1954) was a Suhail Arts Production movie. This less known movie was directed by S M Arza and it had Bharat Bhushan, Shyama, N. A. Ansari, Krishna Kumari, Shamim Akhtar, Bharat Bhushan etc in it.
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When I was in school, I did not see a single movie in a movie hall for six years. It was more by compulsion rather than by choice, of course. My elders would neither go to movie halls themselves nor take me. Watching movies spoil children and their future would be spoilt for ever- that was the rationalisation they gave to everyone who would listen. And my movie deprivation era (1972- 1978) were the prime era for Hindi movie watchers. 🙂
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Aa ra ra ra ra ra main to giri re
Posted on: October 4, 2012
“Post Box 999” (1958) was a Nagina Films Production. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Shakila, Leela Chitnis, Amarnath, Tiwari, Krishnakant, Purnima, Mirza Musharraf, Ramesh Sinha, Manorama, Gulab etc in it.
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Whenever I am reminded of “Jaagte Raho”(1956), I am reminded of the wonderful drunkard song from this movie which is sung by Mukesh and picturised on Motilal. This song,Zindagi khwaab hai is picturised on a fully drunk Motilal swaying merrily in empty streets and going towards his home, with Raj Kapoor looking on.
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