Archive for the ‘Songs of 1965’ Category
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Nishan” (1965) is a B grade film, produced under the banner of Wadia Brothers Productions, Bombay, and directed by Aspi Irani. The star line up include Sheikh Mukhtaar,Sanjeev Kumar, Nazima, Prem Chopra, Helen, Mukri, Sulochana, Heeralal, Shammi, Ratnamala, Uma Dutt, Mitthoo Miyan etc. The film boasts of some very hummable and memorable songs. Lyrics for the songs are created by Jawed Anwar and the music composition is by Usha Khanna. It is interesting to note that Jawed Anwar is the pen name of Manohar Lal Khanna, the real life father of Usha Khanna.
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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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There are countless forgotten gems from forgotten movies that I keep discovering almost on a daily basis.
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Hamse hoti muhabbat jo tumko
Posted on: November 30, 2010
“Muhabbat Isko Kahte Hain” (1965) is a movie starring Shashi Kapoor and Nanda. Most people may not be familiar with the movie, but the songs of this movie are wonderful songs.
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I have posted a song from a movie called “Sangram”(1950). It turns out that another movie of the same name was released in 1965 too.
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Jaayiye aap kahaan jaayenge
Posted on: November 3, 2010
Here is a typically O P Nayyarish romantic song from 1960s. This song is from “Mere Sanam” (1965) and listening to this song, one may guess that the song is from a Shammi Kapoorish movie. And one is too much off the mark in this guesswork. This movie contains Vishwajeet (poor man’s Shammi Kapoor) as well as Asha Parekh.
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“Waqt” (1965) was a path breaking movie in more ways than one. For one, it was a multistarrer movie, one decade before this term came into circulation. Secondly, it was the movie that set the rules for lost and found movies which became the norm one decade later. In brief, “Waqt” (1965) inspired movie makers like G P Sippy (Sholay, Shaan) as well as Manmohan Desai (Amar Akbar Anthony).
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This review is written by Greta (Memsaab), a regular visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movies and its music
This song is not your regular boy meeting the girl and running around the trees song. That stage is over, at least as far as Rajendranath and Madhavi are concerned. Yes, they have got married and this song takes place on the occasion of their wedding reception.
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Regular Hindi movie watchers may have certainly watched a few historical/mythological movies involving Kings. In these movies,King and his ministers would assemble in a Raj Darbaar (King’s court) the way today’s Business houses have their General Body Meeting. What is common in all these meetings is that after the meeting, there would be often by an entertainment programme. Today, the location of entertainment may be different from that of the meeting, but that was not the case in historical times. The entertainment programme would take place in the Raj darbaar itself.
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I have mentioned it on several occasions that music director Ravi has composed the most number of iconic songs among all the music directors. You name the ocassion or the theme, and chances are , one can name a few iconic songs for the ocassion composed by Ravi.
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