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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This day, 50 years ago, the nation woke up to some somber and dreadful headlines. The war on the Himalayan border had intensified, with fresh attacks by China, on the Indian border outposts, after a lull of about 3 weeks. A border dispute between the two countries had reached a flash point with China attacking India, in a planned and concentrated manner in the very early hours of 20th October, 1962. In what is termed as the Himalyan Blunder on the part of the political and military leadership of India, within a matter of 4 days, we had lost large tracts of territory on both the eastern sectors (NEFA, now known as Arunachal Pradesh) and the western sectors (Askai Chin). After gaining a very important strategic and psychological upper hand, China announced a unilateral cease fire and there was a lull in fighting for a period of three weeks.
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Sainyya se nazren milaa le
Posted on: November 6, 2012
“Baadal” (1966) was a Super Pictures Production. It was produced and directed by Aspi Irani. The movie had Sheikh Mukthar,L Vijayalaxmi, Sanjeev Kumar, Helen, Kamal Mehra, Hira Lal, Shammi Aunty, Ratnamala, Niroo, Fazal Khan, Prem, Bob, Ali Razak etc in it.
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“Rangoli” (1962) was an R S B Films Production. It was directed by Amar Kumar. the movie had Kishore Kumar, Vyjyantimala, N. Hussain, Jagdev, Sadhana (not the famous one), Jeevan, Ulhas, Sulochana, Khurshid, Durga Khote, Iftekhar, Dhumal etc in it.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A few days back, one of the readers of this blog commented on the song arree hato kaahe ko jhoothhi banaao batiyaan sung by Manna Dey that he is not a versatile singer. Well, the reader has given his view which we respect in line with ‘pasand apni apni khayal apna apna’. Of course, with such a sweeping statement, there were responses by some of the regulars of this blog. A few examples of songs in support of Manna Dey’s singing versatility were also listed. There is no doubt that Manna Dey is a complete singer. His repository of singing encompasses classical, patriotic, romantic, light comedy, ghazal and more. His versatility goes beyond the different genres of songs. Take for instance the variations in his renditions within the genre of romantic songs of expressing love – tera haath haath mein aa gayaa, roop tumhaaraa aankhon se pi loon, tum jo aao to pyaar aa jaaye and some non-filmy songs like ‘ye awaara raatein ye koyi si baatein’ and ‘ nazaaron mein ho tum khayaalon mein ho tum’.
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“Manzil” (1960) was a Kalpana Pictures production. It was directed by Mandi Burman. The movie had Dev Anand, Nutan, Mehmood, David, K N Singh, Badri Prasad, Achala Sachdev, Pratima Devi, Manmohan Krishna etc.
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“Chitralekha” (1964) was a Pushpa Pictures presentation. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Meena Kumari, Bela Bose, Minoo Mumtaz, Shobhana, Achla Sachdev, Altaf, Zeb Rehman, Mehmood etc in it.
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Nainon ke ye do panchhi
Posted on: October 11, 2012
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Today (11 October) is the 70th birth anniversary of Amitabh Bachchan. He was born this day in 1942.
Today he is a well established legend, but his beginnings were quite shaky and uninspiring. In fact, he had delivered a string of flop movies and he was on the verge of packing up and going back when “Zanjeer” (1973) was released and it became a hit. And after that Amitabh Bachchan did not have to look back.
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Piya maine kya kiya
Posted on: October 10, 2012
“Us Paar” (1974) was a Cinee eye Films production. It was produced and directed by Basu Chatterji. The movie had Vinod Mehra, Raja Paranjape, Padma Khanna, Mausmi Chatterjee, Jalal Agha, Lalita Kumari, Paintal, A.K.Hangal etc in it.
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