Posts Tagged ‘1977’
“Kinaara”(1977) is a movie which was produced by Pranlal Mehta and directed by Gulzar. Gulzar in fact also wrote the script of this movie as well as the lyrics of its songs. “Kinaara” (1977) was one of the few movies that was well recieved by the masses as well as the media. This movie had Jeetendra, Hema Malini, Dharmendra, Shrreram Laagoo, Dina Pathak etc in this movie.
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Jab dard nahin thhaa seene mein
Posted on: November 7, 2011
I have often opined that people who can be the most playful when happy can also be the most mournful when sad. Kishore Kumar is quite an interesting study in contrast that way. He is mainly known for his happy go lucky genre of songs and acting, but when it came to producing movies, most of his movies, except “Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi” (1958) were all serious movies. Likewise, when one makes a list of the most memorable songs sung by Kishore Kumar, lots and lots of serious/sad songs are bound to figure in that list. In fact, Kishore Kumar has sung more sad/serios songs than is normally believed.
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Deepawali manaayen suhaanee
Posted on: October 26, 2011
“Shirdi Ke saibaba” (1977) is a movie which is based on a book Sri Sai Charitra written by Late Sri Govindrao Dabholkar. The movie was produced by Salra charities trust. Ashok.V. Bhooshan directed the movie. The movie had Sudhir Dalvi, Manmohan Krishna, Raj Mehra,Usha Chavhan, Chanda, Vatsala Deshmukh,
Suman Dharmadhikari, Kumari Mahalaxmi, Laxman Chawla, Shrikanth Moghe, Preetham Beli,Jyotsna Kirpekar, Bhavna, C.S.Dubey, Ratnamala, Master Tito etc in it. In addition,some well known actors, viz. Hemamalini, Manoj kumar, Shathrughna Sinha, Premnath, Rajendra Kumar, Madan Puri,Paintal, Sathsh,Dheeraj kumar, Krishan Dhawan, Sachin etc had made guest appearances in this movie.
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Jaane kyaa soch kar nahin guzraa
Posted on: August 4, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Celebrating and remembering Kishore Da on the anniversary of his birth today. 🙂
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“Aakhri Sajdaa” (1977) is a forgotten low budget movie that escaped public attention. The reason why I and like minded music lovers are interested in this movie is for a very important reason. It is the last movie of Sajjad Hussain as a music director. And that is a big reason for music lovers to be interested in this movie, or to be more precise, in the songs of this movie.
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Popular wisdom about Sajjad Hussain is that he last composed for a Hindi movie in 1963. Fortunately, that is not the case. He, despite his troubles with movie makers continued to work till late 1970s. his last movie as a music director was in 1977 and this movie was “Aakhri Sajdaa” (1977). The star cast for this movie includes Maya Sinha, Tabrez, Murad, Veena, Jagdeep, Helen, Husn Banu etc.
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Nazar milaao pataa chalegaa
Posted on: June 2, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Aakhri Sajda (1977) is the last movie for which Sajjaad Hussain composed music.
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Kisi se mili hai nazar be iraadaa
Posted on: May 27, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is a gem of a ghazal presented in Mujra style. Once again, very beautiful, almost semi classical composition. The words are lovely, and the music is just wonderful. As with the other song picturised on Helen, the quality of on screen situation and picturization is average. However, the song is mesmerizing, if one listens only to the audio, without any visual distractions.
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Kisko pukaaroon tere siwaa
Posted on: May 24, 2011
It is popularly believed (and faithfully reproduced by most sites copying from each other) that “Rustam Sohrab” (1963) was the last movie of Sajjad Hussain as a music director. Fortunately for music lovers, Sajjad Hussain was active even later and he kept getting assignments till 1970s, even if they were few and far between.
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“Parwarish” (1977) was a big multi starrer movie, in the sense that it had Amitabh Bachchan and Vinod Khanna, the two biggest stars of the time,together in it.
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