Archive for the ‘Songs of 1980’ Category
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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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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Kaa jaanoon main sajaniyaa
Posted on: July 3, 2012
“Hum Paanch” (1980) was a S K Films Enterprises production. It was produced by Surinder Kapoor and directed by Bapu. The movie had an impressive cast consisting of Sanjeev Kumar, Kanhaiyyalal, Naseeruddin Shah, Mithun Chakraborty, Raj Babbar, Geeta Siddharth, Shabana Azmi, Uday Chandra,Deepti Naval, Gulshan Grover, Amrish Puri, Aruna Irani, A.K.Hangal, Roopesh Kumar, Sunder, C.S.Dubey, Harjeet, Dulari, Ranjeet Sood, Komal Soni, Gurbachan, Sunita, Dev Sharma, Suman, Meghdoot, Yasmin, Vinod, Jamboora, Aditya Sharma, Jugal Kishore, Amir Ali, Yusuf, Raju, C.L.Shah, Kalpana Iyer, Leena Das, Phiroza Cooper, Sujata Bakshi etc.
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“Saanjh Ki Bela” (1980) is a movie which is a recent one by the standards of this blog. Still I was totally oblivious of this movie till recently. It is only when I got down to discuss this song that I became aware of this movie.
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“Abdullah” (1980) was a movie that received quite a bit of publicity during its making, but people lost interest once it was released. I do not know why. This movie never came to my town, which is normally the facte of B grade movies and not a movie which was produced and directed by an A grade Producer like err Sanjay Khan :).
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It is a commonly held view that obscure movies and songs are those that were created long long ago. But that is not always the case. There could be movies and songs that may have ended up as obscure even if they may have been created as late as in 1980 !
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Naya saal aaye tamaashe dikhaaye
Posted on: January 1, 2012
I was not aware that there are quite a few new year songs in Hindi movies. I may not be aware of them, but the knowledgeable readers and contributors of this blog are quite aware of such songs.
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Ye saal ki aakhhri raat hai
Posted on: December 31, 2011
There are songs for various occasions, like festivals, and also for certain days, viz the first day of the month, but I was not aware that there was a Hindi movie song for the last day of the year too.
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“Saajan Ki Saheli” (1980) is a movie which came up in the last stage of the Golden era of Hindi movie music. Those were the days when Disco music was becoming the rage and lyrics were losing their importance in such songs. During those days, we fortunately still had the kind of music in some movies that we had grown up to love all these decades. These were off beat movies, smaller budget movies, family values movies- in brief “non mainstream movies”.
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