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Beesvin sadi hai ye beesvin sadi
Posted on: July 26, 2013
Very little is known about “Chaalis Baba Ek Chor” (1954) even though there are sites galore that claim to tell you everything about this movie and about every other movie.
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Uljhan dil ki kya suljhe
Posted on: July 2, 2013
“Shama” (1946) was produced by Sohrab Modi and directed by Sibtain Fazli. The movie had Mehtab, Chanda Bai, Sadat Ali, Ameer Banu etc in it. The movie had music by Ghulam Haider.
Interestingly, another movie of the same name was released in 1961 too. This movie had Suraiyya, Kumud Tripathi, Nimmi, Vijay Dutt etc in it. This movie had music by Ghulam Mohammad !
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Saari khushiyaan saath aayin
Posted on: June 20, 2013
“Jeewan Jyoti” (1953) was a Musical Pictures production movie. It was directed by Mahesh Kaul. The movie had Moni Chatterji, Nasir Hussain, Amir Banu, Chand Usmani, Shammi Kapoor, Leela Misra, Shashikala, Dulari, Banerji etc in it.
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“Veena” (1948) was a Jagat Pictures Production movie. It was directed by J P Advani. The movie had Rehman, Hemavati, Veera, Sulochana Chatterji, Leela Misra, Yakub, Girdhari etc in it.
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Tere poojan ko bhagwaan
Posted on: May 30, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The year is 1935.
A young Anil Biswas is preparing to record a song for a newly arrived Heroine-RATTAN BAI. She had come from Calcutta, after working in the big banner ” New Theatres”. Having worked in films like ‘Subah ka Sitara’ and Yahudi ki Ladki-1933, with the legendary singer Sehgal, her name had become famous already. She had also worked in Rooplekh-34 and karvaan-e-hayaat-35.
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Jaldi jaldi na karo
Posted on: May 17, 2013
“Phoolon Ke Haar” (1951) was produced by Shreekant and directed by G P Pawar. The movie had Nasir Khan, Geeta Bali, Nigar Sultana, Sunder, Mangala, Hiralal, Madhav Kale, Yashodhara Katju etc in it.
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Hamen jo koi dekh le ek nazar bhar ke
Posted on: May 5, 2013
“Deewaana” (1952) was a Kardar Production movie. It was produced and directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Suresh, Suraiya, Sumitra Devi, Shyam Kumar, Ramesh, Madan Puri, Banerjee, Amirbai Karnataki, Amir Ali etc in it.
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“Rimjhim”(1949) was a Hindustan Cine Production movie. It was directed by Ramesh Gupta and Sushr Sahu. The movie had Kishore Sahu, Mubarak, Ramola, Mohana, Jankidas, A. Shah, Narmada Shanker, Amir Banu, Mumtaz Ali etc in it.
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Today (29 april 2013) is the 14th death anniversary of Kidar Sharma (12 april 1910- 29 april 1999). He was involved in Hindi movies in various capacities, viz Producer, Director, Script/ Screenplay writer, lyricist, actor etc. He is also known as one who gave beaks to several artists who later went on to become big names in Hindi movies. Raj Kapoor, Madhubala, Geeta Bali, Bharat Bhushan, Hansraj Bahl, Snehal Bhatkar, Roshan, Mala Sinha, Tanuja are a few such names who owe their debuts in Hindi movies to Kidar Sharma.
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Ho o o teri meri ye kahaani
Posted on: April 27, 2013
I have recently become aware of a movie called “Nishaan” (1949). This movie was a Gemini Combines Production. It was directed by S S Vasan. The movie had P Bhanumati, Nagendra Rao, J. S. Casshyap, Maya Banerji, B. Kalla, Ranjan, Narayan Rao etc in it. Judging the movie by its songs, this movie appears to be a great fun movie. I wonder why this movie is not all that well known.
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