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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Shehnaz(1948) is a lost film, it would seem. I havenot been able to find videos of any of the songs. I had sent the lyrics of four songs of this film. Atulji has posted three of them, and fourth one is this Rafi solo. I am reproducing the synopsis of the film and other details provided by Arunkumar Deshmukh Sir, our in-house encyclopedia about old Hindi film.
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After the box office failure of “Mera Naam Joker”(1970), Raj Kapoor was a shaken and disillusioned man. When he decided to make a comeback, he decided to play safe and he made a teenage love story and not a serious philosophical movie. The old musical team that had served him well for the past two decades was summarily discarded and a new musical team was signed up for “Bobby”(1973).
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Post “Anand”(1970) and “Mili” (1975),Hrishikesh Mukherji hit upon the formula of family comedy movies. In these movies, there would be an old fashioned strict patriarch/ matriarch who would regard himself as a know all and he would rule his joint family with an iron hand. The story of the movie would let movie goers have a laugh at the cost of that patriarch/ matriarch. This character was typically played by Om Prakash, Utpal Dutt, Dina Pathak etc.
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Kyaa ajab saaz hai ye shehnaayi
Posted on: September 2, 2012
“Shehnaayi” (1964) was a New Oriental Pictures production. It was directed by S D Narang. The movie had Biswajeet, Rajshree, Johnny Walker, Veena, Chaand Usmani, Nirupa Roy, Asit Sen, Iftekhar, Leela Chitnis, D. K. Sapru, Parveen Choudhary etc in it.
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Toone jo idhar dekha
Posted on: September 2, 2012
“Ardhaangini” (1959) was a Mars and Movies production movie. It was directed by Ajit Chakraborty. The movie had Meena Kumari, Raj Kumar, Gopi Krishna, Durga Khote, Praveen Paul, Agha, Shobha Khote, Raja, Shivraj, Naaz, Jeevankala etc in it.
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Kitni jawaan hai zindagi
Posted on: September 1, 2012
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“Shehnaayi” (1964) was a New Oriental Pictures production. It was directed by S D Narang. The movie had Biswajeet, Rajshree, Johnny Walker, Veena, Chand Usmani, Nirupa Roy, Asit Sen, Iftekhar, Leela Chitnis, D. K. Sapru, Parveen Choudhary etc in it.
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When one talks of a Hindi movie called “Amar Prem”, one normally means “Amar Prem” (1971) which was a Rajesh Khanna-Sharmila Tagore movie directed by Shakti samanta. But there was another movie with the same title as far back as in 1948 too.
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Aao tumhe pyaar karna sikhaa doon
Posted on: August 31, 2012
“Shatranj”(1969) was produced and directed by S S Vasan under the banners of Gemini Pictures and N N Sippy Productions. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Shashikala, Madan Puri, Mehmood, Helen, Agha, Manmohan Krishna, Rajan Haksar, Achala Sachdev, Shammi etc.
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“Hamraahi”(1963) was a Prasad Production movie. It was directed by T Prakash Rao. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Jamuna, Shashikala, Dhumal, Lalita Pawar, Mehmood, Shobha Khote, Indira, N. Hussain, Rajendranath, O. P. Ralhan, Heera Sawant etc in it.
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We in this blog like to celebrate milestones. The most frequent form of milestone that we achieve in the blog are century of songs. So far we have achieved as many as 65 such centuries.
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