Posts Tagged ‘1979’
In this blog, I have posted several genre of songs. Not every song is everyone’s cup of tea. There are some genre of songs that can only be appreciated by very few people with tastes acquired after decades.
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Beparwaa bedardi paglaa deewaanaa
Posted on: July 8, 2010
In 1970s, when action movies had become the mainstream movies in Bollywood, (after being looked down upon as C grade movies in the past decades), movies with non violent storylines had taken the back seat.
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“Sholay” was the biggest blockbuster hit of Bollywood when it was released in 1975 ? It was produced by G P Sippy.
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Main tere pyaar mein paagal
Posted on: January 27, 2010
When I was young, I loved making records- no, not the kind of records that played on record players, but the kind which gave you gloating rights. For instance, there were people who would have the record of watching every movie on the first day, first show, and there were some people who would boast of watching the same movie 100 times.
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Baarah baje ki suyion jaise
Posted on: December 13, 2009
“Jhootha Kahin ka” (1979) was one of the movies where Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh got paid for carrying out their romance in full public view. They were indeed so lucky to get paid for doing what they enjoyed.
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Though boy and girl falling in love and singing love songs is a standard theme in Bollywood movies, such an activity is not as easy to carry out in real life India as is made out in Bollywood movies. Most real life lovers have to carry out their love lives on the sly , away from the family and public lives.
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Jaan pehchaan to pahle se thhi
Posted on: October 2, 2009
Though this song is from a movie of 1970s, I had not heard this song before. This song is from “Bhala Maanus” (1979) and it had Randhir Kapoor and his would be sister in law Neetu Singh in lead roles. Kapoor Khaandaan men are known for figuring in this kind of casting. Here randhir Kapoor was at least acting opposite his (would be) sister in law, his uncles (Shammi Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor) in too acted opposite Babita (Randhir Kapoor’s wife) in several movies.
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Several generations of kids, from 1947 onwards were brought up reading the stories of “Chandamama” kid’s magazine, which was published in several languages from Madras.
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Bollywood movies are supposed to be Hindi movies and their censor certificate mentions them as such. If one looks at the censor certificates of movies, one finds that a few movie are certified not as Hindi but as Urdu, For instance Nassir Hussain blockbuster “ham Kisi se ka nahin” is described as an Urdu movie by its censor certificate.
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Sapnon ke shahar ham banaayenge ghar
Posted on: May 22, 2009
G P Sippy, who was on a high after “Sholay”, was making his next big movie called “Shaan” which was taking too long to get completed.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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