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After the box office failure of “Mera Naam Joker”(1970), Raj Kapoor was a shaken and disillusioned man. When he decided to make a comeback, he decided to play safe and he made a teenage love story and not a serious philosophical movie. The old musical team that had served him well for the past two decades was summarily discarded and a new musical team was signed up for “Bobby”(1973).
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Today (4 september) is Rishi Kapoor’s birthday. It appears only yesterday that he made his debut as a teenage hero in “Bobby” (1973). But in reality that was 39 years ago ! How time has flown! Now it is his son who is a teenage heartthrob and Rishi Kapoor these days plays old man’s roles.
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Abke na saawan barse
Posted on: September 4, 2012
While listening to songs, music lovers appreciate the singers as well as the music, but the lyrics are often taken for granted. In reality, it is the lyrics that are the soul of these songs which give these songs their life and their personality.
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“Dooriyaan” (1979) was a Climb Pictures production. It was directed by Bhimsen. The movie had Uttam Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Priyadarshini, Shriram Lagoo, Baby Geeta, Sudha Chopra, Sulbha Deshpande, Arvind Deshpande, Lalita Kohli, Nitin Sethi, Dutta Bhatt, Achyut Poddar, Kiran Seth etc in it.
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“Suraj Aur Chanda”(1973) was produced by A V Subramaniam and directed by T Madhav Rao. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Bindu, Shyama, Jagdeep, Laxmi Chhaaya, Sujit Kumar, Jairaj, Mukri etc in it.
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“Hera Pheri” (1976) was directed by Prakash Mehra. It had Amitabh Bachchan, Saira Bano, Vinod Khanna, Sulakshana Pandit etc in it.
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Sadhana was one of the biggest female star of her time in 1960s. But her aura was all but gone by late 1960s and 1970s. There were several reasons for that including the fact that she fell ill at the prime of her career that kept her out of movies in late 1960s. By the time she recovered and tried to make a comeback, the Hindi movie world had moved on and the new generation of movie goers had their own stars among the newer crop of female actors.
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Post “Anand”(1970) and “Mili” (1975),Hrishikesh Mukherji hit upon the formula of family comedy movies. In these movies, there would be an old fashioned strict patriarch/ matriarch who would regard himself as a know all and he would rule his joint family with an iron hand. The story of the movie would let movie goers have a laugh at the cost of that patriarch/ matriarch. This character was typically played by Om Prakash, Utpal Dutt, Dina Pathak etc.
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Piyaa baawri
Posted on: September 1, 2012
“Khoobsoorat” (1980) was produced by Hrishikesh Mukherji and N C Sippi and directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Rekha, Rakesh Roshan, Shashikala, Aradhana, Dina Pathak, David, S.N. Banerjee, Keshto Mukherjee, Ranjit Chowdhry etc in it.
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