Archive for the ‘Pathos’ Category
“Farmaish” (1953) is an obscure movie which had Pran, Kuldeep, Maruti, Bharat Bhushan, Chandrashekhar, Vijay Lakshmi etc in it. Few people have any idea what this movie was all about.
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Teri is do rangi duniyaa mein
Posted on: June 9, 2011
“Saawan Bhaado” (1949) is an by now obsure movie. It was produced by Prakash pictures. The movie was directed by Kishore Sahu, but publicity materials showed the movie as directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Ram Singh, Munawwar Sultana, Om Prakash, Randhir, Indu, Jankidas, Raj Adeeb etc in this movie.
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I am aware of the movie “Saawan Bhaado”(1970) which was the debut movie of Rekha and Navin Nischol. But there was another movie of this name that was released as far back as in 1949.
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Majhdhaar mein kashti doob gayi
Posted on: May 14, 2011
“Buzdil” (1951) is a movie which had Premnath and Nimmi in lead roles. Yes, those were the days when Premnath used to act in lead roles. Kishore Sahu,Kanhaiyalal,Cuckoo etc are the other actors in this movie.
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So gayi chaandni
Posted on: May 8, 2011
“Aakaash” (1953) is a forgotten movie which had Agha, Balraj Sahni, Nadira, Manmohan Krishan, Shammi (not to be confused with Shammi Kapoor), Badri Prasad, Jillo etc in it.
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Chhedi maut ne shehnaayi
Posted on: May 6, 2011
“Heer” (1956) is a story based on the Punjabi Tragic love story of Heer Ranjha, which has been an important source of inspiration for several Hindi movies.
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Dard kyun uthhtaa hai dil mein
Posted on: April 27, 2011
“Birhaa Ki Raat” (1950), which is an obscure movie by now, had actors like Dev Anand, Nargis, Madan Puri, Snehprabha Pradhan, Omprakash etc in it. Dev Anand and Nargis paired together ? I never knew that a movie like this existed.
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Ae roti huyi taqdeer bataa
Posted on: April 15, 2011
I am aware of a movie called “Toote Khilaune” (1978) but I was not aware that a movie of the same name was produced some quarter of a century ago as well.
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Do dil toote do dil haare
Posted on: April 13, 2011
I became aware of the movie “Heer Ranjha” (1970) in 1974, while going through movie magazines, which incidentally were supposed to be out of bounds for school kids barely in their teens. 🙂 But I was a kid who loved reading all kinds of publications, including screenplays of movies too. Yes, those days screenplays of movies used to get published too. I read screenplays of “Bobby” (1973) and “Aasheerwaad” (1968). I never watched these movies and I never thought that I missed anything by not watching them, that is how vivid the screenplays used to be.
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Aurat ne janam diyaa mardon ko
Posted on: March 8, 2011
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog.
Ninety years ago, this day, the 8th of March, saw the birth of a certain Abdul Hayee in Ludhiana, Punjab.
It may seem like a routine event. After all, aren’t people born every day?
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