Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category
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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“Amir Gharib” (1974) was an Em Kay Films private Ltd production. It was produced and directed by Mohan Kumar. The movie had Dev Anand, Hema Malini, Tanuja, Nazima, Premnath, Helen, Ranjeet, Sujeet Kumar, Raj Mehra, Sulochana Latkar, Chaman Puri, Birbal, Master Ravi, Jr.Mehmood, Bunty, Mohan Choti, Mumtaz Begum, Ram mohan, Dulari, Krishnakant, V.Gopal, Tuntun, Keshav Rana, Kamal Deep, Jerry, Rajan Kapoor, Moolchand, Ram Avtaar, Sajan, Kuljeet, Sopariwala etc in it.
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It appears that there are lots of songs in Hindi movies that can be posted on the occasion of Janmashtmi. It is just that I am either not aware of them, or I have forgotten about them.
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Ek mahal ho sapnon ka
Posted on: August 10, 2012
Though “Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka” (1975) is a recent movie by the standards of this blog, this movie is not all that well known today. Perhaps a TV serial of the same name has hijacked the title and that has pushed the information about the movie of 1975 back.
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Tum saamne baithhe raho
Posted on: August 9, 2012
Experienced music lovers can often identify the music director by listening to the music of a song. Most music directors have their “signature” tunes that differentiate them from others. So most of the time one can identify a tune as being a tune of Naushad, O P Nayyar, Madan Mohan, S D Burman, Roshan, Shankar Jaikishan, Laxmikant Pyarelal etc.
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