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Kya nazaare kyaa sitaare
Posted on: January 13, 2012
In 1970s, when I was growing up as a pre teen kid, I had noticed that Gulshan Nanda was the most popular Hindi novelist. His novels were read by all grown ups. Kids were not supposed to read such grown up stuff. Being a precocious and eager kid, I managed to read a few Gulshan Nanda novels even then and I loved the novels. I wonder what was low brow in these novels (as alleged by literary magaziones of those days).
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A man who is fully drunk and is going home at night singing a song justifying his state of intoxication is a scene that has been immortalised in Hindi movies by the song Zindagi khwaab hai (Jaagte Raho) . This song was sung by Mukesh and it was picturised on Motilal.
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Like most music lovers, I too mostly know only about the better known songs of movies and I am blissfully unaware of the lesser known songs from these movies.
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“Naubahaar” (1952) was a production of New Premier Films. Ashok Kumar and M S Ahluwalia had jointly produced the movie. Anand Kumar was the director of this movie. Star cast of the movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaiwant, Jagdish Sethi, Badri Prasad, Sunalini Devi, Kuldip Kaur, Randhir, Shivraj, Pesi Patel etc.
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“Sargam” (1950) is a movie that has been forgotten with time. It was a Filmistan production. It was directed by P L Santoshi and the star cast had names like Rehana, Om Prakash, Mumtaz Ali, Paro, Ratan Kumar, Chandabai, Raj Kapoor, Rajendra, David Abraham, Tabassum, Radha Krishnan, Samson, Vijayalaxmi, Ramsingh, S. L. Puri, Sudesh etc in it.
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Tumhe zindagi ke ujaale mubaarak
Posted on: January 12, 2012
This song is a well known song and I believed that this song was already covered in the blog but I discover that I was wrong. That way, this song belongs to the popular category of the blog, viz “What ! This song was not yet posted !” category. 🙂
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Today(10th January) is the birthday of Yesudas. On this occasion, we are discussing a few songs sung by Yesudas in Hindi movies.
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“Saawan Ko Aane Do” (1979) was a Rajshree Productions movie and like most Rajshree Productions movie, music was the hero of this movie too. The movie was full of nice songs which became quite popular. In fact most people may have watched the movie for its songs. I was certainly one of them.
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Zidd na karo ab to ruko
Posted on: January 10, 2012
“Lahu Ke Do Rang” (1979) is one of those movie that I have actually seen when it was first released. The movie had Vinod Khanna (double role), Shabana Azmi, Danny, Helen (as supporting actress), etc.
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