Posts Tagged ‘1961’
“Zabak” (1961), a quintessential B grade movie was a Basant Pictures production. It was produced and directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had Mahipal, Shyama, Manhar Desai, W. M. Khan, B. M. Vyas, Babu Raje, Achla Sachdev, Uma Dutt, Krishna Kumari, Sahira, Adeeb etc in it.
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Ilaahi tu sun le hamaali duaa
Posted on: September 29, 2012
Today (29 september) is the birth anniversary of Mehmood Ali Khan, known to movie watchers simply as Mehmood. Mehmood (29 September 1932 – 23 July 2004) made his debut in Hindi movies as a child actor in 1940s and then graduated as a grown up actor in 1950s. He became a comedian who commanded his own CSP (Comic side plot) in Hindi movies of 1950s and 1960s.
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Nain bina meri duniya andheri
Posted on: September 26, 2012
“Amrit Manthan” (1961) was an Agrawal Production movie. It was directed by S N Tripathi. The movie had Manhar Desai, Usha Kiran, Sundar, Ullhas, Sulochana Chatterji, Yashodhara Katju, Jeevankala, Amirbai Karnataki, Ratnamala etc in it.
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“Matlabi Duniya”(1961) must be one of the more obscure movies of all time. Little information is available about this movie. It was a Chetna Production movie. It was directed by Radhakant M Thakore and the movie had Damuanna, Anant Kumar, Asha, Satish Vyas, Dhumal. I am not aware who are Asha and Damunna in the cast.
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“Aas Ka Panchhi” (1961) was a Filmyug production movie. It was directed by Mohan Kumar. The movie had Vyjyanti Mala, Rajendra KuUmar, Leela Chitnis, Shaminder, Raj Mehra, Nazir Hussain, Shivraj, Mumtaz Begum, Sunder etc in it.
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Nazar mere dil ke paar huyee
Posted on: August 30, 2012
Today (30 august) is the birth anniversary of Shailenedra (30 august 1923- 14 deceember 1966). It is unimaginable but true that Shailendra lived to an age of only 43 ! The body of work that he had built up by that time was so imposing that he was already a legend by that time.
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“Sanjog”(1961) was a Light and Shade productions movie. It was produced by Om Prakash (the actor) and directed by Pramod Chakraborty. The movie had Pradeep Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Shubha Khote,Mehmood, Sunder, Raj Mehra, Leela Misra, Om Prakash, Pachhi etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Again, a long gap, which actually troubles me more than anything else. I am sure one of these days, Atul ji will add the following header to the top of one of my posts ; “This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a MOST-IRREGULAR-regular contributor to this blog.” 😀 😀
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There have been two Hindi movies called “Shama” and there are many people including “experts” who get mixed up in this confusion. There movies were “Shama” (1946) and “Shama” (1961). The confusion is compounded by the fact that the music directors of these movies were Ghulam Haider and Ghulam Mohammad respectively and there are people who think that the two were the same person. In fact I once watched a podcast about old songs where the podcaster very knowledgeably told the audience that Ghulam Haider, who composed the music of “Shaheed” (1948) later composed the music of “Pakeezah” (1972).
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