Posts Tagged ‘1957’
Main hoon Johny badaa toofaani
Posted on: September 17, 2010
I maintain that some of the most memorable O P Nayyar compositions have been picturised not on regular heroes, but on a comedian,viz Johny Walker. In some of these movies, Johny Walker in fact played the hero as well.
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Ae pyaase dil bejubaan
Posted on: September 16, 2010
Plagiarism is quite rampant in Hindi movies. Lifting scenes and even entire storylines without proper acknowledgement is nothing new. But in most cases such Hindi movies get away scotfree.
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I was not aware about the existence of this movie called “Paayal” (1957). Now I know that it is a movie starring Sunil Dutt and Padmini.
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Shammi Kapoor made his debut in early 1950s and for the first few years of his career he was largely a nobody. In his movies, he would try to ape the mannerisms of his elder brother Raj Kapoor.
It was with “Tumsa Nahin Dekha” (1957) that Shammi Kapoor discovered his true self. It was in this movie that we first saw Shammi Kapoor look and act like the Shammi Kapoor that we so love and adore to this day.
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Meri veena tum bin roye
Posted on: September 7, 2010
“Dekh Kabira Roya” (1957) was a movie made with lesser actors, and I have no idea how the movie fared at the box office, but today this movie is regarded as a musical blockbuster.
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I was not aware that Raj Kapoor and Meena Kumari worked together and that too at a time when he was known to act mostly opposite Nargis.
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Koi laakh kare chaturaayi
Posted on: August 18, 2010
If you want to calm your nerves by listening to music then it is often a good idea to listen to a song sung by Kavi Pradeep. He was mainly a poet, but he also sang a few songs and most of these songs went on to become immortal songs.
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Jahaan jahaan khayaal jaataa hai
Posted on: August 16, 2010
Here is a party song from a movie called “Bade Sarkaar” (1957). This movie, from its cast does not appear an A grade movie, seeing that Agha and Sajjan are the lead actors in this movie.
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I was under the impression that I had already posted this song from “Dekh Kabeera Royaa” (1957). So I was suprised to know (thanks to Lalitha’s farmaish for this song) that this song was not yet posted.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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