Archive for the ‘Rafi songs’ Category
“Ghoonghat” (1960) was a Gemini Pictures Presentation. It was directed by Ramanand Sagar. Starcast of the movie included Pradeep Kumar, Asha Parekh, Bharat Bhushan, Beena Roy, Agha, Rehman, Helen, Kanhaiya Lal, Rajendra Nath, Pratima Devi, Leela Chitnis etc.
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Regulars of this blog may be wondering why I have discussed only one post today and then nothing ! The reason is, today my wife has all the time to supervise over me and sitting at the computer is proving out to be difficult for me. I somehow managed to post one writeup today when she was not looking. Now it is afternoon and she has gone out for her favourite pastime, viz shopping. I refuse to have anything to do with shopping so I have dropped her (and the daughter) to a shopping complex and come back. Assuming that they will be there for three hours, I need to make the most of these three hours to make up for lost time. 🙂
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Hain abhi aur ae dil tere imtihaan
Posted on: March 23, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today is 23rd March, a day that is remembered as the day of martyrdom of the three young and brave sons of this earth, Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru. In 1931, the supreme sacrifice that these young men in their twenties chose to make for the cause of our nation, became an inspiration for the subsequent generations – a ideal that still arouses the patriotic fervor.
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Yahaan main ajnabi hoon
Posted on: March 22, 2012
Here is a song that belongs to the category of “how come this song was not posted earlier”. My excuse remains the same standard one-I thought that this song was already discussed.
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“Raftaar” (1975) was a movie that was not quite A grade, nor it was an entirely B grade movie. In 1970s, such movies, which were neither here nor there tended to have Vinod Mehra and Mausami Chatterji in them as the lead pair. Put another way, they were poor producer’s Dharmendra-Hema Malini.
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Main to baanke nainon waali
Posted on: March 20, 2012
“Chhoomantar” (1956) was a Sadiq Production movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. Starcast of the movie included names like Johny Walker, Shyama, Karan Dewan, Jagirdar, S. Banerjee, Raj Mehra, Amar, Anita Guha, etc.
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I am aware of the movie “Laila Majnu” (1976) but I was not aware that a movie called “Daastaan e Laila Majnu” was released two years prior to that. This movie, viz. “Daastaan e Laila Majnu” (1974) was obviously a B grade movie.It was produced and directed by R L Desai. Starcast of the movie included names like Kanwaljeet, Anamika, B. M. Vyas, Dulari, Jayshree T., S. N. Tripathi, K. N. Singh, etc.
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There was a Hindi movie called “Commercial Pilot Officer”(1963). This obscure movie was a Deepak Jyoti Production. That is all I know about this movie.
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Ye hasrat thhi ki iss duniyaa mein
Posted on: March 18, 2012
“Nausherwan e Adil” (1957) was a Minerva Movietone presntation. It was produced and directed by Sohrab Modi. This movie had Raj Kumar, Mala Sinha, Sohrab Modi, Naseem, Bipin Gupta, Murad, Shammi, Amirbano etc in it.
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Pyaar ki manzil mast safar
Posted on: March 18, 2012
“Ziddi” (1964), not to be confused with “Ziddi”(1948) was produced and directed by Pramod Chakravarty. Starcast of the movie included Joy Mukherji, Asha Parekh, Dhumal, Shobha Khote, Raj Mehra, Sulochana, Ullhas, Madan Puri, Nazima, Majnu, Mehmood etc.
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