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Bechaara dil kyaa kare
Posted on: June 27, 2012
“Khushboo” (1975) was based on a Bangla story namely “Panditmoshai” written by Sharat Chandra Chatterji. The movie was a Tirupati pictures combine presentation. It was produced by Prasann Kapoor, who if I remember correctly was the brother of Jeetendra.
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Chal chale ae dil
Posted on: June 27, 2012
When I was growing up in 1970s, I had heard of Gulshan Nanda a lot. Gulshan Nanda was the most popular Hindi novelist of that time. How popular he was could be judged from the fact that several of his novels were made into popular Hindi movies with same titles. For instance, “Kati Patang” (1970) was made based on his novel of the same name.
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Jaaun to kahaan jaaun
Posted on: June 27, 2012
Today (27 june) is the birth anniversary of R D Burman, who was easily the most influential music director during the time I was growing up in late 1960s and for entire 1970s. His dominance was so total that most other music directors had to change their music to sound like R D Burman. I too k it almost for granted that any song that I liked those days had to be a composition of R D Burman.
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“Chhote Sarkar”(1974) is quite an obscure movie by now, which is a surprise seeing that this movie had Shammi Kapoor and Sadhana in lead roles.
The fact that the movie was released in 1974, by which time both Shammi Kapoor and Sadhana were past their prime as lead actors, may be the reason for the obscurity of this movie. The movie was obviously planned to be released in 1960s, but the movie could not be released for various reasons. By the time it finally saw the light of the day in 1974, it was too late. The taste of the movie goers had changed drastically in the interim period. As a result, this movie sank almost without a trace.
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Main lut gayi duniyaawaalon
Posted on: June 26, 2012
“Tangawaali”(1955) was a Kuldeep Pictures presentation. It was directed by Lekhraj Bhakri. The movie had Anita Guha, Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Shammi Kapoor, Jayant etc. Not much information is available about this movie on internet.
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I realised it recently that the songs of “Sangam” (1964), which was a musical extravaganza of its time, are under represented in the blog. So far only four songs from this movie have been discussed and several well known songs from the movie are still at large.
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“Dhaake Ki Malmal” (1956) was a Nanda Films Production. It was produced and directed by J K Nanda. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Madhubala, Ulhas, Rajan Haksar, Jeevan, Jagdeep, Shyam Kumar, Sajjan, Raj Mehra, Om Prakash etc in it.
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“Dil Ki Raahen” (1973) was a Majida Movie presentation. It was directed by B R Ishara. The movie had Rakesh Pandey, Rehana Sultan, Amrit Lakhanpal,Dilip Dutt, Rakesh Pandey, Sulochana, Johnny Whisky etc in it.
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Kaun rokega ab pyaar ka raastaa
Posted on: June 25, 2012
“Ek Kali Muskaayi” (1968) was a Panchdeep Chitra Production. It was produced and directed by Vasant Joglekar. The starcast had Ashok Kumar, Meera Joglekar, Joy Mukherjee,Mehmood, Om prakash, Nirupa Roy, Lalita Pawaar, Mallika, Neelam, Nana Palsikar, Sunder etc in it.
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