Archive for the ‘Rare song’ Category
Sadhana was one of the biggest female star of her time in 1960s. But her aura was all but gone by late 1960s and 1970s. There were several reasons for that including the fact that she fell ill at the prime of her career that kept her out of movies in late 1960s. By the time she recovered and tried to make a comeback, the Hindi movie world had moved on and the new generation of movie goers had their own stars among the newer crop of female actors.
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“Khamoshi” was a Geetanjali Pictures production. It was produced by Asit Sen (different from the comedian of the same name). This movie had Rajesh Khanna, Waheeda Rehman, Lalita Pawar, Ajit Chatterji, Iftekhar, Tarun Ghosh, Nazir Hussain, Snehlata, Anwar, Deven Verma, Naina etc in it.
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“Neelkamal” (1947) was an Oriental Pictures production. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Madhubala, Begam Para, Nazira, Rajendra, Pesi pate, Pt Iqbal etc in it.
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Bhai bairan kaali ratiyaan
Posted on: September 2, 2012
“Kaareegar”(1958) was a Panchdeep Chitra production. It was directed by Vasant Joglekar. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nirupa Roy, Om Prakash, Madhu Apte, Lalita Pawar, Agha, Ramesh Kapoor, Sumnati Gupte, Jagirdar, Nana Palsikar, Minoo Mumtaz, Helen 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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“Chunariya” (1948) was a Kuldeep Pictures Ltd production. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Wasti, Manorama, Pran, Randhir, Cuckoo, Narbada Shanker etc in it.
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“Dhoop Chhaaon” (1935) was a New Theatre Production. It was directed by Nitin Bose. The movie had Pahadi Sanyal, Uma Shashi, K C Dey etc.
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Dheere baho nadiya dheere baho
Posted on: August 31, 2012
I wonder if anyone has made a list of “Chakki” songs in Hindi movies. Present generation people may not be aware of a “Chakki”. “Chakki” was a manual rotaty grinder- a home appliance of previous generations which was used to grind grains. You poured grains on the hole near the centre of the “chakki” and rotated the “Chakki”. The grain got crushed and came out from the edges which was then collected.
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Suna tu man ki been par
Posted on: August 30, 2012
Hindi movies are often categorised into A grade and others, based on their budget. Big budget movies, which has big names in them are regarded as A category movies whereas small budget movies are described as B grade etc.
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