Posts Tagged ‘1948’
“Chandralekha” (1948), originally a Tamil movie, was remade in Hindi with original actors of the Tamil movie and it turned out to be a big success in Hindi too.
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Today (8 july) is the death anniversary of lyricist Saraswati Kumar “Deepak”. He was active in Hindi movies mainly in 1940s and 1950s. This blog has 15 songs written by him as of now.
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Yaad rakhnaa chaand taaron
Posted on: May 31, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I had heard popular songs from ‘Kismet’ (1943) in my childhood. But it took another two decades for me to know that Anil Biswas composed those immortal songs. It was during one of the sittings in my friend’s house sometime in early 70s when I listened for the first time a song from ‘Taraana’ ( 1951)- seene me sulagte hain armaan that I came to know of him as music director. Subsequently,I heard many of his songs from films of 40s and 50s and I started liking those songs. It took me another four decades to know about Anil Biswas’s detailed profile and filmography by which time I realised that he was an institution by himself.
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I have discussed songs from “Ham Bhi Insaan Hain”(1959) in this blog. It turns out that there was another movie of the same title which was produced in 1948. This movie was produced by Ghanshamdas and directed by Phani Majumdar. This movie had Dev Anand, Ramola, Anand Pal, Ganshamdas, Jerman, Vinodini etc in it.
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“Anokhi Ada”(1948) was a Mehboob Productions movie. Mehboob Khan was the producer and director of this movie. Star cast of the movie had Surendra, Naseem, Pratima Devi, Zeb Qureshi, Cuckoo, Prem Adeeb, Bhudo Advani, Nawab, Murad, etc in it.
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Bhoolne waale yaad na aa
Posted on: February 3, 2012
“Anokhi Ada”(1948) was a Mehboob Production movie. It was directed by Mehboob Khan and the starcast included names like Surendra, Prem Adeeb,Pratima Devi, Zeb Qureshi, Cuckoo, Bhudo Advani, Nawab, Murad, Naseem etc.
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I am on my long return journey back and so internet connectivity is once again an issue. when I reached a place with good internet connectivity, I failed to take advantage of that because of several reasons. Now I will wait for the next such opportunity and try to ensure that my writeups are ready for posting by that time.
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“Shahnaaz” (1948) is by now an obscure and forgotten movie. Little is known about this movie today.This movie was a Wahab Production movie and it was directed by S Hassan. The star cast of the movie included names like Nihar, Begum Para, Sheikh, Shanta Patel, Shyama, Gulzar, Altaf etc.
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Mujhe tumse muhabbat hai
Posted on: January 16, 2012
“Shahnaaz” (1948) is an obscure movie and little is known about this movie. In fact, there is uncertainty even about the title. I have seen the title being spelled as “Shahnawaaz” too in some site.
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