Posts Tagged ‘1971’
Roz akeli aaye roz akeli jaaye
Posted on: August 18, 2012
On independence day, we had the birthday of Rakhi. Three days later, it is the birthday of her husband. Sampooran Singh Kalra, known just as Gulzar, was born on 18 august 1936. Gulzar started his career as a lyricist in Hindi movies in early 1960s. He had written songs for “Shrimaan Satyawaadi” (1960),”Kabuliwaala”(1961),”Bandini”(1963),”Do Dooni Chaar” (1969) etc in his earlier years.
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Haal chaal thheek thhaak hai
Posted on: August 8, 2012
This blog is chugging along nicely and it is touching new milestones at regular intervals. Today, with this post, we arrive at yet another milestone.
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This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Recently (on 3 august), we were celebrating birth anniversaries of two legends of Hindi cinema, Shakeel Badayuni and Jaidevji. Atulji had posted a few melodious songs sent by contributors with all the information about these personalities, their contributions, movies, etc. As a tribute to Shakeel Badayuni, I was listening to many songs penned by him and finally decided to send the song “O jaane waalon jaa o na…” of Mother India, to pay tribute to SB. While writing the words of this song, I was thinking about another song picturized on the same situation, natural disaster, where people of the village/town are leaving because of the drought condition.
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Jeewan se na haar o jeenewaale
Posted on: August 4, 2012
Kishore Kumar, popularly regarded as a happy go lucky individual was deep down a sensitive soul. After making a couple of light hearted movies, Kishore Kumar began to make some serious movies on sensitive issues. But unfortunately the Hindi movie audience were not ready for such movies. In fact even today there is only a very small audience for serious and sensitive off beat movies.
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Jeewan bhar dhoondhaa jisko
Posted on: July 22, 2012
“Naadaan” (1971) was a Navratna Pictures Production. It was produced and directed by Deven Verma. The movie had Navin Nischol, Asha Parekh, Helen, Nirupa Roy, l, P.Jairaj, Deven Verma, Madan Puri, Brahma Bhardwaj, Asit Sen, Sundar, Bela Bose, Sulochana Chatterjee, Praveen Paul, Karan Dewan, Rashid Khan, Ravi kant, Kuljeet, Subrotho Mahapathra, M.B.Shetty(fighter shetty), A.K.Hangal, Ravi Kapoor, Ratan Gaurang, Nazir Kashmiri, Yash Sharma etc.
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Taaron mein saj ke
Posted on: July 22, 2012
“Jal Bin Machhli Nritya Bin Bijli”(1971) was a V Shantaram Productions movie. It was produced and directed by V Shantaram movie. The movie had Ravindra, Vasant Parekh, Minal, Abhijeet, Vastala Deshmukh, Iftekhar, Sandhya, Dina Gandhi, Raja Paranjpe, Nanda, Birbal, Praveen Kumar, Sushant Ray etc in it. The movie was a resounding failure at the box office. Even its songs failed to climb to the popularity stakes. But that is only to be expected seeing that 1971 was a year of bumper crop of outstanding music.
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Sooraj se jo kiran ka naataa
Posted on: July 22, 2012
“Hangaama” (1971) was a Chainsons Films Production. It was produced by Babulal Chainrai and Mohan Chainrai and directed by S M Abbas. The movie had Vinod Khanna, Zeenat Aman, Mehmood, Helen, Kishore Kumar, Fariyaal, Johnny walker, Aruna Irani, Yunus Parvez, Mukri, Dhumal, Jr.Mehmood, Kumud Tripathi, Janki Dass, Tuntun, Joginder, Ram Avtaar, Rajni Gupta, Master Bhagwan, Bhola, Jerry, Jagdish Kanwal, Gopal, Ranvir Raj, etc.
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Duniya o duniya tera jawaab nahin
Posted on: July 21, 2012
Today (21 july) is the birthday of Anand Bakshi (21 july 1920-30 march 2002). He was one of the most prolific lyricists in the annals of Hindi movie music. This blog has 466 songs written by him. The most prolific decade for Anand Bakshi was the decade of 1970s, which was also the decade that I grew up in.
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Rajesh Khanna (29 december 2012-18 july 2012) is no more. He breathed his last yesterday. He was just 69 years of age. He was ailing for a few months but we thought that his ailment was nothing more than routine age related problems that everyone with advancing age has to face.
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