Archive for the ‘Suman Kalyanpur solo’ Category
“Miyaan Beewi Raazi” (1960) was a small budget movie made with unknown actors like Kamini Kadam, Shrikant Gaurav, Seema, Raja Gosavi and Mehmood. This movie apparently failed at the box office, seeing that the names of the lead actors of this movie do not ring any bells.
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Sun re sun albele
Posted on: December 17, 2010
Hindi Tarzan movies typically had Dara Singh playing the role of Tarzan, with Mumtaz playing his love interest. Here, in this movie called “Tarzan Comes To Delhi” (1965), Mumtaz decided to bring Tarzan in contact with civilisation. Here she takes Tarzan and his diminutive assistant Bhagwan to a hotel.
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“Shama”(1961), a forgotten movie by now had Suraiyya,Nimmi,Vijay Dutt (who ?) etc in it.
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“Dil Hi To Hai” (1963) has lots and lots of great songs in it. I have so far discussed six songs from this movie.
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Many people have known Nirupa Roy in mother roles and Ashok Kumar in elderly avuncular roles. But that is not how they began their careers. They both acted in lead roles when they were young.
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Joohi ki kali mere laadli
Posted on: September 29, 2010
“Dil Ek Mandir” (1963) is a movie starring Rajendra Kumar and Meena Kumari. This movie, like most movies of those days, is full of memorable songs.
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Jaa jaa jaa re beimaan
Posted on: September 18, 2010
It is often said that Hindi movie are enjoyed the best when you leave your brain behind. And when it comes to Dara Singh movies, it helps even more if one did not have a brain to begin with. 😀 Dara Singh movies are good brainless entertainment,and they are grade Z gems, as someone lovingly puts it in youtube. Brainless entertainment and grade Z gems- waah ! There cannot be higher “praise” than that for Dara Singh movies !
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I have often tried to compile a list of male and female actors who acted together in movies before they married each other. One can think of names like Dev Anand- Kalpana Kartik, Shammi Kapoor- Geeta Bali, Randhir Kapoor-Babita, Rishi Kapoor-Neetu Singh, Amitabh Bachchan-Jaya Bhaduri, Dharmendra-Hema Malini etc.
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Roothe hon sanam to phir kyaa hai
Posted on: July 26, 2010
In Hindi movies, “roothna” (sulking) is the preserve of females, and it is the male of the species who has to indulge in the act of “Manaanaa” (appeasement). I have posted many such songs like this in this blog, but it never occured to me to have a separate category for such songs.Now I have thought of this category called “sulking-appeasing song”.
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