Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category
Pyaase do badan
Posted on: August 19, 2012
We in this blog celebrate the anniversaries of Hindi movie personalities by discussing songs associated with them on those days. for this purpose, we naturally rely upon the dates available in public domain.
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Ek akela is sheher mein
Posted on: August 18, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today, the 18th of August, is the 76th birthday of Gulzar saab.
And, as I type 76th, I can’t help feeling that 1936 must have been a very special year. If I were selling wine and comparing Hindi film personalities with wine, I think I’d say 1936 could be right up there for best year for vintage wine of the 20th century. 🙂
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Rishte bas rishte hote hain
Posted on: August 18, 2012
“Gehraayee” (1980) was a Avikam’s production. It was produced by N B Kamat and direcyed by Vikas Desai and Aruna Raje. The low budget art movie had Anant Nag, Dr.Shree Ram Lagoo, Indraani Mukherjee, Padmini Kolhapure, Reeta Bhaduri, Amrish Puri, Sudhir Dalvi, Shubha Joshi, Satyendra, Satya Kumar Patil, Suhas Bhalekar, Ameeta Kelekar, Eknath Hattangadi, Kumar Shahu, Ramakrishna, JyotiLaxmi, Indiramma, Somu, Rao etc in it.
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Roz akeli aaye roz akeli jaaye
Posted on: August 18, 2012
On independence day, we had the birthday of Rakhi. Three days later, it is the birthday of her husband. Sampooran Singh Kalra, known just as Gulzar, was born on 18 august 1936. Gulzar started his career as a lyricist in Hindi movies in early 1960s. He had written songs for “Shrimaan Satyawaadi” (1960),”Kabuliwaala”(1961),”Bandini”(1963),”Do Dooni Chaar” (1969) etc in his earlier years.
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Kuchh khone ko dil karta hai
Posted on: August 17, 2012
Few people today remember this movie called “Ahsaas” (1979). This movie was a quicky movie produced by G P Sippy in the interim period between his two big movies viz. “Sholay” (1975) and “Shaan”(1980). “Ahsaas” (1979) was produced with newcomers with names that no one had heard of. Who were the lead pair in this movie ? Frankly no one seems to recall including me. It was one of those few movies that I had watched first day first show ! And what a disaster of a movie it was. Now others who are into watching first day first show (FDFS), like for instance Santosh Ojha, watch blockbusters like “Trishul”. On the other hand, it is my misfortune to watch dud movies like “Ahsaas” (1979) and “Shalimaar” (1978) in FDFS. Bahut naainsaafi hai.
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Yesterday as many as four birthday anniversaries (and one death anniversary) were discussed in the blog and people may be wondering if today is an anniversary free day. Not really. Today (17 august 2012) also we have at least one birthday.
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“Sunayna” (1979) was a Rajshri Productions movie which was inspired from Charlie Chaplin’s movie The citylights(1931). Charlie Chaplin’s movie was a silent movie even though the era of talkies has begun. Hindi movies cannot be silent by any stretch of imagination. And this movie had some lovely songs in it,including Naseeruddin Shah (playing Charlie Chaplin’s role) singing a romantic song(Sunayna sunayna..aaj in nazaaron ko tum dekho) for his lady love.
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Yesterday (15 august 2012) was Indian Independence day. India had attained her independence on 15 august 1947.
By a unique coincidence, the Hindi movie actress Rakhi was born on that very day, viz 15 august 1947 ! Among all the midnight children (as Salman Rushdie would describe children born on that day in his best selling novel of the same name), Rakhi must be the most well known one. She is exactly of the same age as the nation of India !
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Suniye zara dekhiye na
Posted on: August 16, 2012
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a new contributor to this blog.
As is the case with many songs, I grew up listening to this song on radio, but had no idea from which film this is till I discovered this few months back on youtube.
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“Fauzi” (1976) was a J & J Arts international production. It was produced by Joginder Shelly, popularly known as just Joginder. The movie had Vikram, Joginder Shelly, Naazneen, Nazima,Sujit Kumar, Tuntun, Aparna Chaudhury,Jagdeep, Aruna Irani, Romesh Sharma, Sadhana Khote, Rajan Haksar, Randhir etc.
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