Posts Tagged ‘1961’
“Dharmputra”(1961) was a movie made on the sensitive matter of communal harmony. And not surprisingly, this movie was produced by B R Chopra, who in the past had tackled other sensitive topics in his earlier movies e.g. “Sadhana” (1958) and “Dhool Ka Phool” (1959).
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Nigaahon mein tum ho
Posted on: February 18, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movies and a regular contributor to this blog.
JAADOO NAGARI (1961) as the name suggests, was a fantasy film with Ranjan and Vijaya Choudhary as lead actors. Other cast included Tiwari, Helen and Majnu. The film was produced under the banner of Mukul pictures and directed by Radhakant who had directed some of Dara Singh films such as Rustam-e-Rome (1964), Boxer (1965), Insaaf (1966) and Toofaan (1969).
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Kaun jaane har bahaaney
Posted on: February 17, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
If I were to write that the ‘M’ in Mukesh stands for ‘Magic’, I am sure there will be very few who would disagree. This song – another wonderful duet by Mukesh and Asha Bhosle, is a magic colored with these two voices. A soft and light song of love, from two hearts that are probably finding love for the first time – and that the heart now smiles in happiness, for every reason, and at every pretext.
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Ae dil ye bataa
Posted on: February 14, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today, 14th February is the birth anniversary of Jaan Nissaar Akhtar. The mention of this name brings to mind many memorable and hugely popular songs, that came from the pen of this gifted poet.
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Main abhi ghair hoon
Posted on: February 14, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
It has intrigued me as to why Jaan Nisar Akhtar, who joined the film industry as a lyricist in early 50s was not as successful as his contemporaries such as Sahir Ludhianvi, Majrooh Sultanpuri and Shakeel Badayuni among others. I came to know about him as a lyricist when I bought a 78 RPM records of YASMIN (1954) in early 70s.
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In Hindi movies, most artists tend to get typed cast and most people can only visualise one standard kind of performance from them. When it comes to Hindi movie music, for instance, what kind of music does one expect when Bharat Vyas is the lyricist and S N Triptahi is the music director ? We expect songs that are either bhajans or semi classical songs.
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Tu mere saath main tere saath
Posted on: February 9, 2012
“Apsara” (1961) is a Chitralaya Films Production. It was directed by V M Vyas. Starcast of the movie included Pradeep Kumar, Padmini, Nirupa Roy, Daljeet, Naina, Anwar, B. M. Vyas, Maruti etc.
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Sab pyaar ki baaten karte hain
Posted on: February 5, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I had resolved not to access any Hindi film related websites for few days to enable me to attend to some other pending works which included writing my travel blogs. But the urge to listen to old Hindi film songs was so strong that this resolution was broken in less than 24 hours. It appears that listening to and discovering new ‘gems’ from old Hindi film songs is an addiction for which there is no detoxification therapy. 😀
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