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There were three top heroes in Hindi movies in 1950s. Of them, viz. Raj Kapoor expired in 1980s and Dev Anand just a few days back. One of them, viz Dilip Kumar is still around. He in fact is celebrating his 89th birthday today. He was born on 11 th december 1922 in Peshawar,now in Pakistan. He made his debut in Hindi movies with “Jwaar Bhata” (1944) and his made his mark as a hero with “Jugnu” (1947) and soon he became a hot property in Hindi movies and earned him the sobriquet of “Tragedy king”. It is not an accurate description, becuase he has worked in several light hearted movies as well.
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“Preet Na Jaane Reet” (1966) is a Moviestan presentation. It was directed by S Bannerji. The star cast included names like Shammi Kapoor, B. Saroja Devi, Siddhu, Nazir Hussain, Parveen Choudhary, Minoo Mumtaz, Dhumal,Shammi, Randhir, Johnny Walker etc.
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“Pinjre Ke Panchhi” (1966) is a movie which is a Shobha Chitra Production. M C Ananthraj was the producer and this movie was directed by Salil Chaudhary. The star cast of this movie included names like Meena Kumari, Baljraj Sahni, Mehmood, Abhi Bhattacharya,Shaukat Azmi, Asit Sen, Keshto Mukherjee, Ifthekar, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Yunus Parwez, Poonam etc.
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This song is a poem which is written by Md Iqbal, also known as Allama Iqbal. This song has many versions, which have been sung by many artists. “Dulhan Ke Raat Ki” (1966) utilises this poem as a qawwali/ mujra song, which may not be what this poem is intended to be.
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“Pinjre Ke Panchhi”(1966), despite being a movie of reasonably recent vintage (by the standards of this blog), is a movie that is by and large forgotten. This movie was a Shobhana Pictures presentation and it was directed by Salil Chaudhary. The movie had Mehmood, Balraj Sahni, Meena Kumari, Abhi Bhattacharya, Asit Sen, Keshto Mukherjee, Poonam, Viswas Kunte, R. Jhunjhunwala, Harin Chattopadhyaya etc in it.
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“Sunahre Qadam” (1966) is an obscure movie despite being of relatively recent vintage by the standards of this blog. This movie was a Saraswati Kala Mandir presentation. It was directed by Satish Nigam and its star cast consisted of names like Shashikala, Agha, Sabita Chatterjee, Randhir, Rehman who hardly held any star appeal to attract ordinary movie goers to the movie halls. So it should come as no surprise that the movie failed at the box office.
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I was aware of a movie called “Alibaba Aur chaalis Chor” (1979) which was an Indo-Soviet Union Collaboration. But I was not aware that a movie on the same well known Arabian tale was prooduced in 1966 as well. This movie , titled “Alibaba and forty thieves” was a Basant pictures Production and it was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, L Vijaylaxmi, Veena, Tabassum,David Abraham, B.M.Vyas,Indira Billi, S.N.Tripathi, Kamal Mehra, Kishan Mehta etc in it.
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