Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
Hongkong China Mina Singapore
Posted on: March 13, 2012
“Hongkong” (1962) was produced and directed by A S Pachchi. The satrcast included Ashok Kumar, B Saroja Devi, Helen etc. This movie was one of the first movies that treated Indian movie goers to the sights of foreign locations, which was then a novelty in Hindi movies.
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Umariya bin khewak ki naiyya
Posted on: March 13, 2012
“Majhli Didi” (1967) was a movie based on the backdrop of Bengal. As a result, rivers and boats and majhis played important roles in this movie.
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Ye parda hata do
Posted on: March 12, 2012
“Ek Phool Do Maali” (1969) was a Goel Cine Corporation movie. It was produced and dirdcted by Devendra Goel Production. Starcast of the movie included names viz Sanjay Khan, Sadhana, Balraj Sahni, Shabnam, Bobby, Manorama, Shyam Kumar, Brahmachari, Brahm Bharadwaj, Praveen Paul, Abu Baker, David Abraham, Durga Khote etc.
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Milti hai agar nazron se nazar
Posted on: March 12, 2012
“Do Dilon Ki Daastaan” (1966) is a forgotten movie by now. This movie was a Deep and Sandeep Production. It was directed by Pradeep Kumar. Starcast of the movie had names like Pradeep Kumar, Vyjyanti Mala, Om Prakash, Jagdeep, Rehman, Shashikala, B. Nandi, Nazir Hussain, Tuntun etc.
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Hai zindagi itni haseen
Posted on: March 12, 2012
“Apsara”(1961) is an obscure movie. Here are the details of this movie that our in house movie encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh had given in the past :-
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Aji kyaa rakkha hai gyaanam mein
Posted on: March 11, 2012
The article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Remembering IS Johar on the anniversary of his passing away on 10th March.
I S Johar, the redoubtable and simply irrepressible personality of the Hindi cinema world is well known for his versatility, his topicality, and his penchant for being in the news for a variety of reasons. Whether it be multiple marriages or open support for male sterilization, he was a strongly opinionated person, with emphatic views, and yet and aloof and a suave demeanor. He is also known to be a very well read person, and his ‘Question Box’ in the magazine Filmfare, was popular for many years.
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Rang rangeela mausam
Posted on: March 11, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Early sixties, and a new kid on the block is trying to catch attention with the clarion call “Banda Parwar, Thhaam Lo Jigar” (‘Phir Wohi Dil Layaa Hoon’ (1963)). Catapulting directly into the top bracket of leading roles, no one can say that Joy Mukherjee had a dearth of roles or big name pictures. The young lad was very handsome, with an open smiling face, and had histrionic talent also. And as is evident from the roles in the first decade of his career, he had lots of energy and had a lots of zeal. Btw, the song I mentioned in this paragraph, well it is not on this blog yet. (Hint, hint. :))
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Sadqe heer tujhpe ham faqeer sadqe
Posted on: March 11, 2012
“Mera Naam Joker” (1970) was an ambitious movie of Raj Kapoor which unfortunately failed big time at the box office when it was released. The box office debacle was so big that it took Raj Kapoor quite some time to recover from it, and when he recovered, he had made a clean break from the past, in the sense that his musical team was totally revamped.
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“Gharaana” (1961) was a Gemini Production movie. It was directed by S S Vasan. The movie had a starcast consisting of Rajendra Kumar, Asha Parekh, Raaj Kumar, Shobha Khote, Agha, Minu Mumtaz, Lalita Pawar, Kanhaiya Lal etc.
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“Naya Raasta” (1970) was produced by I A Nadiadwala and directed by Khalid Akhtar. Starcast of the movie included Asha Parekh, Jeetendra, Jayshree T., Lalita Pawar, Balraj Sahni, Sujit Kumar, Veena, Farida Jalal, Roopesh Kumar etc.
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