Posts Tagged ‘1978’
When I was in school, I did not see a single movie in a movie hall for six years. It was more by compulsion rather than by choice, of course. My elders would neither go to movie halls themselves nor take me. Watching movies spoil children and their future would be spoilt for ever- that was the rationalisation they gave to everyone who would listen. And my movie deprivation era (1972- 1978) were the prime era for Hindi movie watchers. 🙂
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Kahin ho na mohalle mein halla
Posted on: September 27, 2012
Today (27 september) is the 8th death anniversary of Shobha Gurtu (8 february 1925- 27 september 2004). Born as Bhanumati Shirodkar, Shobha Gurtu earned her fame as a leading Thumri singer of her time. She became Shobha Gurtu after marrying Vishwanath Gurtu.
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Haan aawaaraa hoon
Posted on: September 20, 2012
We in this blog typically have two main causes of celebrations- one is blog century post and other is artist century post. We have so far seen 66 blog centuries. As many as 51 artists have completed their centuries (one of them in two different categories, viz as a singer and as a music director).
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Chalo kahin aur chalte hain
Posted on: September 20, 2012
When one talks of a movie called “Naya Daur”, one thinks of the B R Chopra movie of 1957 which had Dilip Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala in lead roles and which had lilting music by O P Nayyar.
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Din ba din wo mere dil se
Posted on: September 14, 2012
Movies can be on many topics and it is not necessary that they should all be made on the prevalent mainstream subject of that era. But this fact was not known to movie goers or even to movie critics in the past decades. People would go to the movie hall with pre conceived notions of what the movie should be like and they would be disappointed if the movie had a different story line. There were Amitabh Bachchan movies in late 1970s and late 1980s where movie goers went expecting a dhishum dhishum fare but were extremelyt disappointed on finding that the movie had no fight scenes, and worse, Amitabh Bachchan was shown as a mortal rather than one who could singlehandedly taken on lots of baddies.
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Gulmohar gar tumhaara naam hota
Posted on: September 6, 2012
Today (6 september) is the birthday of Rakesh Roshan, better known as the father of Hrithik Roshan and even better known as the son of music director Roshan. 🙂
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Sadhana was one of the biggest female star of her time in 1960s. But her aura was all but gone by late 1960s and 1970s. There were several reasons for that including the fact that she fell ill at the prime of her career that kept her out of movies in late 1960s. By the time she recovered and tried to make a comeback, the Hindi movie world had moved on and the new generation of movie goers had their own stars among the newer crop of female actors.
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Arre nazar lage na saathiyon
Posted on: August 4, 2012
The first solo song that Kishore Kumar sang in his playback career was for Dev Anand in the movie “Ziddi” (1948) under the music direction of Khemchand Prakash. Then S D Burman, his mentor used his good offices to get Kishore Kumar to give plaback for Raj Kapoor in “Pyaar” (1950). But from that time onwards, Kishore Kumar sang for himself or for Dev Anand, in case it was a Dev Anand movie with S D Burman’s music direction. I can think of one more exception during 1950s though where Kishore Kumar sang for someone other than himself or Dev Anand. It was the iconic song Din hai suhaana aaj pahli taarikh hai(Pahli taarikh) (1954) which was picturised on Raja Nene.
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Na aaj thha na kal thhaa
Posted on: August 4, 2012
“Pati Patni Aur Woh” (1978) was a B R Chopra production. It was produced and directed by B R Chopra. The movie was a light hearted adult comedy in the sense that it depicted the tale of a man carrying on an affair with his female secretary in office behind the back of his homely wife.
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Anil Biswas, one of the pioneers of Hindi movie music once opined that Sajjad Hussain and Jaidev were the most talented music directors in his opinion. Coming from Anil Biswas, it was high praise indeed.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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