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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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Dekha karo Bhagwan gareebon ka tamaasha
Posted by: Atul on: November 15, 2011
“Daasi” (1944) is a movie about which not much is known. What I know about this movie is that an actress called Raagini played the role of the leading lady in this movie.
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Dekhi teri duniya arre dekhe tere kaam
Posted by: Atul on: September 5, 2011
“Farishta” (1968) was a forgetteble B grade movie. It had Dev Kumar, Nivedita, Sudhir, Gajanan Jagirdar etc in it. The fact that little is known about this movie today is a testimonty to the fact that the movie was a damp squib at the box office.
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Le dekh tere raaj mein ham lut gaye hain aaj
Posted by: Atul on: August 22, 2011
If one wants to get any work done from someone, then one needs to request them politely and respectfully. And in many cases, this works like a charm.
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Tum Prabhu bade dil ke kathhor nikle
Posted by: Atul on: August 19, 2011
“Chakradhaari” (1954) was an archtypical B grade mythological movie. It had Nirupa Roy,Trilok Kapoor and Shahu Modak in lead roles. Such movies normally have a very limited run among movie lovers and then these movies are forgotten.
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Arre waah re dayaalu waah waah re dayaalu
Posted by: Atul on: August 17, 2011
Though tens of thousands of songs have been uploaded on YT and other hosts, there are still lots and lots of great songs that are yet to be uploaded. I call them forgotten gems, because people are not even aware of their existence.
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