Posts Tagged ‘1958’
“Farishta” (1958) was a Pancholi Production movie. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari, Mubarak, Anita Guha, Sohrab Modi, Mehmood, Nana Palsikar, Sheikh Murad, Mridula etc in it.
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“Maaya Baazaar” (1958) was a Basant Pictures Production. It was directed by Babubhai Mistry. The movie had Anita Guha, Mahipal, Vasant Pahelwan, Raj Kumar (not the famous one), Ullhas, B. M. Vyas, Ramsingh, Indira etc.
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Ever since the anniversary page was added to the blog, we find ourselves dealing with several anniversaries almost on a daily basis. Today (23 september) is no exception. There are at least four different anniversaries today that I can think of off hand.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Greetings and wishes for many more happy and healthy returns of today, to the renowned and respected character actor, Shri Krishna Kant. He turns 90 today.
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It is my observation that the careers of many actors in Hindi movies were made and sustained thanks to the great music that their movies had. It is difficult to imagine these movies becoming hits without their hit music. And as we all know, Hindi moviegoers are initially attracted towards movie halls because of the music and these songs are often one of the biggest selling points of these movies. Movies without songs have a hard time finding distributors.
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Tann jaley mann jalta rahey
Posted on: September 5, 2012
Today (5 august) is Salil Chaudhary’s death anniversary. Salil Chaudhary (19 november 1922- 5 september 1995) was one of the pioneers in the field of Hindi movie music. He composed music mainly in Bangla, Hindi and Malayalam movies and left his mark in movies of all three languages.
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Bhai bairan kaali ratiyaan
Posted on: September 2, 2012
“Kaareegar”(1958) was a Panchdeep Chitra production. It was directed by Vasant Joglekar. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nirupa Roy, Om Prakash, Madhu Apte, Lalita Pawar, Agha, Ramesh Kapoor, Sumnati Gupte, Jagirdar, Nana Palsikar, Minoo Mumtaz, Helen etc in it.
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“Amardeep” (1958) was a Shivaji Productions movie. It was directed by T Prakash rao. The movie had Dev Anand, Vyjyanti Mala, Ragini, Johnny Walker, Pran, Padmini etc in it.
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Raja recently informed me that Rafi and Geeta Dutt had sung nearly 155 duets together and that most of these duets (30) were under the music direction of Chitragupta.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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