Posts Tagged ‘1940’
Jeewan aasha ye hai meri
Posted on: June 11, 2011
I am aware of movies called “Zindagi” that were released in 1956 and 1964. There was in fact another movie of this name as far back as in 1940. This movie, produced by New Theatre,Calcutta, had actors like K L Saigal, Ashalata, Jamuna, Pahadi Sanyal,Sham Laha, Nimmo etc in it.
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Aankh moond kar dhyaan
Posted on: June 10, 2011
“Nartaki” (1940) is a movie that had Pankaj Mullick, Leela Desai, Jagdish Sethi, Wasti etc in it.
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Mat bolo bahaar ki batiyaan re
Posted on: September 5, 2010
While looking up information about Naushad, I found out that he made his debut as a music director in 1940 in a movie called “Prem Nagar”. In this movie he composed as many as 13 songs. Those are the days when actors themselves used to sing their own songs.
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Prem ka naataa chhootaa
Posted on: April 9, 2010
“Nartaki” (1940) is a very old movie, which was released just a few years after the first Hindi Bollywood was produced in early 1930s. The technologies associated with this new medium of entertainment were primitive and were evolving.
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Chane Jor Garam Babu
Posted on: March 13, 2009
This song is as much as 70 years old, and I am listening to this song for the first time just now.
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