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Hazaar haath waale
Posted by: Atul on: June 26, 2012
“Maha Pooja” (1954), as the name suggests, was a low budget religious mythological movie, the kind which was partonised in rural and semi rural areas rather than in big cities.It was an Amar Jyoti Films production. It was directed by Shanti Kumar. The credit for this movie shows names like Amirbai Karnataki, Shashi Kapoor, Anant Marathe, Naina, Prem Adib, Ratnamala etc in it. I am certain that the Shashi Kapoor of this movie is different from the brother of Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor.
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Tu hai ya nahin Bhagwaan
Posted by: Atul on: June 16, 2012
“Janam Janam Ke Phere” (1957) was a Mukti Films Production. It was directed by Manu Desai. The movie had Manhar Desai, Nirupa Roy, Amirbai Karnataki, B. M. Vyas, Krishna Kumari, Malay Sarkar, Amar Pandey etc in it.
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Bhagwaan ik qusoor ki itni badi sazaa
Posted by: Atul on: May 21, 2012
“Gehra Daag”(1963) was a Ralhan Productions movie. It was produced and directed by O P Ralhan. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Mala Sinha, Madan Puri, Lalita Pawar, Usha Kiran, Mumtaz, Ragini, Bhupet Raja, Ratnamala, Moppet Shahid, Manmohan Krishna, Bihari, Ram Mohan, Tun Tun etc in it.
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Ya meri manzil bata ya zindagi ko chheen le
Posted by: Atul on: April 11, 2012
“Raakhi” (1962) was a Prabhuiram Pictures production. It was directed by A Bhimsingh.The movie had Ashok Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Pradeep Kumar, Raj Mehra, Randhir, Shivraj, Mohan Choti, Ameeta, Mehmood,Malika, Lalita Pawar etc in it.
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Ya ilaahi ho mubaarak tujhko ye tera jahaan
Posted by: Atul on: April 10, 2012
“Laila Majnu” (1953) was an all India Pictures Production. It was directed by K Amarnath. Nutan and Shammi Kapoor had played the title roles in this movie. The movie also had Ratan Kumar, Ulhas, Begum Para, Kammo, Wasti etc in the movie.
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Yehi hai duniya teri bhagwaan
Posted by: Atul on: April 9, 2012
“Resham”(1952) is by now an obscure movie. This Jubilee pictures presentation was directed by Lekhraj Bhakri. The movie had Jairaj, Suraiyya, Sunder, Sapru, Baby Naaz, Achla Sachdev, Khurshid, Ramesh Thakur, Jagdish etc in it.
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Ek baar dharti par aakar dekh zara Bhagwaan
Posted by: Atul on: March 18, 2012
“Banjaarin” (1960) was a B grade movie which was a Ratan pictures presentation. It was directed by Jaswant Jhaweri and the stacast included B grade stars like Manhar Desai, Kanchan Kamini, Lalita Kumari, Indira Bansal, Sundar, Dalpat etc.
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O duniya banaane waale kyaa yahi hai duniyaa teri
Posted by: Atul on: March 10, 2012
“Sindoor” (1947) is a movie about which very little information is available even on “authentic” sites. But we in this blog now have all the details about this movie thanks to our own inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh. Here is the information that Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh shares with us about this movie :-
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Phoonk do aa ke Bhagwaan
Posted by: Atul on: December 27, 2011
“Qeemat” (1946) was produced by A R Kardar and directed by Nazir Ajmeri. This movie had Amar, Sulochana Chatterjee, A Shah, Sharda, Badri Prasad, Sofia, Anwari, Nawab
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Ajab hai maalik tera jahaan
Posted by: Atul on: November 20, 2011
Different people may have different ways of judging movies. I read an old joke in this connection some three decades ago. A Pathan from Afghanistan came to India and looked at a poster of a movie . He was very impressed with the title of the poster and he went to watch that movie. after THE END, he came out very frustrated and disappointed. He was asked the reason for his disappointment. “The poster promised that the movie had Chiraag Khan and Roshni Khan in it. I watched the entire movie , but I could not find either of the Khans in this movie.” The Pathan explained.
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