Archive for the ‘Songs of 1973’ Category
Today (23 september) is the birthday of Prem Chopra. Seeing that he played villain in most movies, there are not too many songs that were picturised on him. But there are such songs in Hindi movies.
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Isi sheher ki kisi galli mein
Posted on: September 21, 2012
This aricle is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog.
Going through Atul’s index of movie-wise songs I was astonished to find that so many film titles begin with “Mr.”. One “Mr.” title though I didn’t find there and that was Mr. Romeo (1974) . Till 2003 I hadn’t even known that such a movie existed till I saw its score on Music India Online. R. D. Burman has given the film a good score. He usually did that to for-us-now obscure films. It seems to be the launching vehicle for the leading lady Rinku Jaiswal. I think this was her only movie.
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Today (19 september) is the death anniversary of Producer Tahir Hussain (19 september 1938-2 february 2010). He was the brother of noted producer Nasir Hussain. To the younger generation of movie goers, Tahir Hussain is the father of Aamir Khan. “Caravan” (1971), “Anamika” (1973), “Zakhmee” (1975) etc are some of the well known movies produced by Tahir Hussain.
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“Kahaani Ham Sab Ki”(1973) was produced and directed by Raj Kumar Kohli. The movie had Mala Sinha, Lalita Pawar, Aruna Irani, Roopesh kumar,Jagdeep, Om Prakash, Arun Chopra, Vinod Mehra, Abhi Bhattacharya,Madan Puri,Vimi, Archana etc in it. This movie, going by its star cast was smaller budget movie that few people, including myself, knew much about.
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Chura liyaa hai tumne jo dil ko
Posted on: September 8, 2012
This article is written by Ava Suri, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Sometimes I find it hard to remember when I saw a particular movie. Was I in college or in school? A quick look at the year in which the movie released is the best way to find out.
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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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Mere pyaase man ki bahaar
Posted on: August 29, 2012
Today (29 august) is the birthday of Leena Chandawarkar. Yesterday (28 august) was the birthday of Anil Dhawan. These two had worked together in “Honeymoon” (1973), which was a Rajshree production movie which was produced by Tarachand Barjatya and directed by Hiren Nag. The movie had Anil Dhawan, Leena Chandavarkar, Suresh Chatwal, Nazima, Utpal Dutt, Shyama, Mukri, Sunder, Leela Misra, Senior Sulochana, Pravin Paul, Purnima, Agha, Shammi, Uttam Anand, Shail Chaturvedi, Praveen Kumar, Uma Dhawan, Madhup Sharma, Tarun Ghosh, Machhar, Sonal, Darshan, Pardesi, Shriram Shashtri, Baby Gayatri, Mona, Rajni,Indu Mehta etc on it.
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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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Ek tu hai piyaa jispe dil aa gaya
Posted on: August 8, 2012
O P Nayyar took Asha Bhonsle uder his wings and transformed her from a talented struggling singer to a singer with her own identity who could hold her own vis a vis any other singer in the industry.
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