Posts Tagged ‘Actor-Singer’
Naiyya dheere dheere jaana
Posted on: April 6, 2013
Sometimes some producers get so obsessed with a story that they devote a good portion of their career to make a movie on that story. For instance, K Asif had planned “Mughal e Azam” as early as 1940s itself and it took him nearly two decades of time and enormous resources to finally bring his dream project to fruition in 1960 with different lead actors than what was originally planned. Likewise, Kamal Amrohi’s “Pakeezaa” was in the making for a decade or more before it finally got completed and released in 1972. By that time the lead actress and the music director of the movie were no longer around.
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Ek nek tabeeyat raaja thha
Posted on: April 6, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the early era there was a fair exchange of film themes and music between all the centres of film production like Bombay, Lahore, Calcutta, Madras, Poona and Kolhapur( and Hyderabad and Bangalore at a later time). That is why sometimes Bilingual films were made. Madras was not directly interested in making films in Hindi upto 1948,till Vasan’s CHANDRALEKHA-48 had an All India release with over 700 prints, in those days.
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Alakh naam ras peena
Posted on: April 1, 2013
“Bharthari” (1944) was a Navin Pictures production. It was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The movie had Surendra as Bharthari, Mumtaj Shanti as Queen Pingala and Pahadi Sanyal as guru Gorakhnath,alongwith Kajjan, Sulochana, Dave, Babar etc.
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“Vish Kanya” (1943) was a Ranjit Production movie. The movie was directed by Kidar Sharma. It had Surendra, Sadhana Bose, Prithviraj Kapoor, Kamla, Leela Mishra, Sulochana, Brijmala etc in it.
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Ulfat ka adhoora afsaana
Posted on: March 28, 2013
“Neeli” (1950) was a Ranjit Film Company production. It was directed by Ratibhai Punatkar. The movie had Dev Anand, Suraiya, Agha, Shyama, Dulari, Cuckoo etc in it.
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“Shaadi” (1941) is by now a forgotten movie. This movie was produced by Jayant Desai for Ranjit Films. It had Khurshid, Ishwarlal, Madhuri, Motilal, Ghori etc in it.
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Sach sach sach o dear sach sach
Posted on: March 23, 2013
Though most Hindi movies of 1950s and 1960s had “mainstream” story lines, but a few comedy movies too were produced during that era. Quite a few of these movies had Kishore Kumar in the lead roles. Then there were some other actors who too were making their marks as comedy actors. I S Johar was one such actor.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Vintage Kishore Kumar. And I thank Shekhar Vaishnav ji, who is connected to our blog from Sydney. Thanks for the reminder for this song.
The fun songs by Kishore Da are a class apart by themselves. There is nothing at all in this world to compare them to. And during the 50s and 60s, when Kishore Da also acted in many films, there is a number of very wonderful songs that he has sung and also performed on the screen. An accomplished actor that he was, he has done the best interpretations of his own singing, and has performed his own songs, as no other actor can even consider it possible. Each one of the pictures that he acted in, contain fantastic gems that are superb both from the singing as well as from the performance aspects.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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