Posts Tagged ‘1960’
Aane laga jeene ka mazaa
Posted on: December 15, 2012
“Singapore” (1960) was an Eagle Films Production. It was produced by F C Mehra and directed by Shakti Samanta. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Padmini, Maria Menado, Shashikala, K. N. Singh, Madan Puri, Helen, Agha, Rajan Kapoor, Lilian, Ameer, Balaram, Mohan Berodia, Dwarka Divecha, Gopal, Moosa, Gautam Mukherjee, Radhakrishan, Shankar etc in it.
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Kyaa huaa ye mujhe kyaa huaa
Posted on: December 10, 2012
“Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai” (1960) was an R K Films Production. It was produced by Raj Kapoor and directed by Radhu Karmarkar. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Padmini, Pran, Chanchal, Lalita Pawar, Raj Mehra, Tiwari, Nana Palsikar, Nayampalli, Salochana Chatterjee, Vishwa Mehra, Baboo Rao, S. K. Singh, Rattan Gaurang, Chang, Mohamed Ali, Anwari Bai, Sadhana, Azim, Master Amar etc in it.
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“Air Mail” (1960) must be one of the most obscure Hindi movies of all time. This B grade movie was a People Pictures presentation. It was directed by B J Patel. The movie had Jyoti, Mirajkar, Ranjan, Malini, Rajen Kapoor etc in it.
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Nadi kinaare koi pukaare
Posted on: December 9, 2012
“Chandramukhi” (1960) was a Kanti Production movie. It was directed by R Thakur. The movie had Manhar Desai, Kavita, B. M. Vyas, Maruti etc in it.
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Hari Om kathha aarambh hoti hai
Posted on: December 1, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Can you guess how many actors and actresses must have worked in ALL Hindi films from 1931 to 2000 ?
I asked this question to my friend and he hazarded a figure of 2000. I put the number at around 3000 to 4000, myself.
What is your Guess ?
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Tak dhoom tak dhoom baaje
Posted on: November 29, 2012
“Bambai Ka Babu” (1960) was a Naya Films production. It was directed by Raj Khosla. The movie had Dev Anand, Suchitra Sen, Nazir Hussain, Achala Sachdev, Dhumal, Rashid Khan, Manohar Deepak, Jagdish Raj etc in it.
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Ab to Madhav mohe ubaar
Posted on: November 22, 2012
This article is wrtitten by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Among the singers of devotional songs, one name that comes to my mind is Lakshmi Shankar. It was almost a daily ritual for me to listen to one of her devotional (bhajan) songs almost every day in the morning on All India Radio, Bombay (Mumbai). At that time, I had no inkling that she was a classical dancer and later a renowned classical vocalist of Patiala Gharana. I was not even aware that she belonged to the illustrious Shankar family.
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