Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
Jeene waale muskuraa ke jee
Posted on: February 21, 2012
“Chhote Nawaab”(1961) is a movie which was Mehmood’s home production. Produced under the banner of Mumtaz Films, this movie was produced by Usman Ali and directed by S A Akbar. Starcast of the movie included names like Mehmood, Ameeta, Minoo Mumtaz, Helen, Anwar Hussain,Raj Kishore, Raj Dutt, A.R.Bengali, Munshi Munaqqa, Maqbool, Yusuf, Abdul, Mono, Sevanand, Bela Bose, Aruna, Harikishan, Ebrahim, Khursheed Bawra, Pappoo, Altaf, Brij Sharma, S.N.Bannerjee, Nazir Hussain, Achala Sachdev, Kumar etc.
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Ye tanhaayi haay re haay re
Posted on: February 21, 2012
Nutan (DOB-4 june 1936 – DOD-21 february 1991) left for heavenly abode this day 20 years ago. Twenty years ago ! How time flies !
She belonged to one of the first Hindi movie dynasties. Her mother(Shobhana Samarth) was a noted actress in Hindi movies, as was her sister (Tanuja). With Tanuja’s marriage to Shomu Mukherji, this family married into another big Hindi movie dynasty that included Joy Mukherji, Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar etc. Later on, her son, Mohnish Bahal and her neice Kajol would also act in Hindi movies , with Kajol marrying Ajay Devgan, another well known actor.
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There have been three movies with the title “Do Bhai”. “Do Bhai” (1961) is the most obscure of the three, even though it is a recent movie as compared to the “Do Bhai” (1947). The other movie of this title was released in 1969.
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“Kaala Samundar” (1962) was a Deepak Chitra Production. It was directed by R P Ashq. Starcast of the movie had names like Jairaj, Chitra, Bir Sakuja, Maruti, Hiralal, Radhika, Tuntun etc in it.
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“Dharmputra”(1961) was a movie made on the sensitive matter of communal harmony. And not surprisingly, this movie was produced by B R Chopra, who in the past had tackled other sensitive topics in his earlier movies e.g. “Sadhana” (1958) and “Dhool Ka Phool” (1959).
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Chaahe dekhen ghoor ke
Posted on: February 19, 2012
“Sachche Moti” (1962) is an obscure B grade movie and little information was available about this movie till recently .
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“Gyaarah Hazaar Ladkiyaan” (1962) was a movie which was produced by Films Friends and directed by K A Abbas. Starcast of the movie consisted of names viz. Bharat Bhushan, Mala Sinha, Murad, Madhvi, Imtiaz, Nadira, Mukri, Helen, David Abraham, etc.
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Chhalia chhaila pakad ke haath
Posted on: February 19, 2012
“Holiday in Bombay” (1963) is a movie which is barely known to most Hindi movie enthusiasts today. Same is the case for the music of this movie. But when one begins to look at the songs of this movie, one is left amazed. How can a movie full of such songs be so obscure. This movie should be known among music lovers at least for its songs if for nothing else.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Another unheard film, that I got familiar with as I started to track a song that I came across after ages. Having heard it on the radio many years ago, I found it again few days ago on YouTube.
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