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Aurat ek kahaani maiyya
Posted on: November 15, 2012
“Vishwas” (1943) was produced under the banner of Wadia Movietone. It was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had Surendra, Mehtab, Trilok Kapoor, Sulochana Chatterji, Nayampalli, Gulab, Baby Madhuri etc in it.
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“Do Ustaad” (1959) was a Shekh Mukhtaar Production movie. It was produced by Sheikh Mukhtaar and directed by Tara Harish. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Madhubala, Daisy Irani, Sheikh Mukhtar, Umadutt, Sulochana, Bimla Kumari, Kamal Mohan, Satish Vyas, Master Daboo, C. B. Singh, T. N. Charlie, Sood, Fazalkarim, Khan, Narula, Jerry, Ratan Gourang, Dayal Kumar, Shangloo, Ramlal, Prem Sagar, Funny Tincher, Soofi, Sadiq, Mastan Shah etc in it.
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“Saath Saath” (1982) was produced by “The Film Company”. It was produced by Dilip Dhawan. Raman Kumar was the writer and director of this movie. The movie had Farooque Sheikh, Dipti Naval, Rakesh Bedi, Satish Shah, Neena Gupta, Sudha Chopra, Avtaar Gill, A K Hangal, Helena Luke, Ifthekar, Javed Khan, Kiran Vairale, Yunus Parwaiz, Geeta Siddharth,
Anjan Srivastav etc in it.
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Sun le Baapu ye paighaam
Posted on: October 2, 2012
Today (2 october) is Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday. Mahatma Gandhi (2 october 1869- 30 january 1948), who is regarded as the Father of the nation was arguably one of the the greatest and most influential human beings of the modern era of mankind. Two of the movements that he initiated had Global application. They are Anti colonialism and Anti apartheid. Another major movement that he championed was anti touchability against a uniquely Indian social practice. All these movemnents have today become full fledged movements with official approval.
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Ye raat bahut rangeen sahi
Posted on: October 1, 2012
“Shagoon” or “Shagun” (1964) was a Shaheen Art production. It was directed by Nazar. The movie had Kamaljeet, Waheeda Rehman, Neena, Achla Sachdev, Libi Rana, Nazir Hussain, Nana Palsikar, Pratima Devi, Rajdeep, Chand Usmani etc in it.
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When one talked of a movie called “Sargam” in my younger days, the only movie of this name that I was aware of was the Rishi Kapoor Jayaprada movie of 1980. Later I came to know that a movie of the same title was released in 1950 too which was a Filmistan production. “Sargam” (1950) was directed by P L Santoshi. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Rehana, Om Prakash, Mumtaz Ali, Paro, Ratan Kumar, Chandabai, Rajendra, David Abraham, Tabassum, Radha Krishnan, Samson, Vijayalaxmi, Ramsingh, S. L. Puri, Sudesh etc in it.
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“Ghazal” (1964) had three songs on the same tune and with somewhat similar sentences all ending in “….kise pesh karoon”. Two of these songs , viz. Naghma o sher ki saugaat kise pesh karoon and
Rang aur noor ki baaraat kise pesh karoon . Here is the third similar sounding song which begins “Ishq ki garmi e jazbaat kise pesh karoon”.
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“Shehnaayi” (1947) was an amazing movie with extremely innovative and original kind of songs. We are fortunate that a print of this movie still exists. As can be seen from youtube, this print survived thanks to some private collector in Pakistan from where it was uploaded on YT. Now all the songs of this movie are available on YT.
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Kahin daag na lag jaaye
Posted on: September 17, 2012
Today (17 september) is the death anniversary of Hasrat Jaipuri. He was one of the most prolific lyricists of the golden era of Hindi movie music and that reflects in this blog too. As many as 407 songs penned by Hasrat Jaipuri have figured in this blog in the past.
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mini mini chi chi
Posted on: September 12, 2012
Today (12 september) is Jaikishan’s birth anniversary. One half of the famous Shankar Jaikishan duo, Jaikishan had died quite young at an age of 41 on this day in 1971. He achieved so much at such a young age . The Shankar Jaikishan duo were easily the most dominant and prolific music directors of the golden era of Hindi movie music.
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