Posts Tagged ‘Actor-Singer’
“Dard” (1947) was a Kardar Productions movie. It was produced and directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Shyam Kumar, Suraiya, Munawar Sultana, Nusrat, Husn Banoo, Badri Prasad, Protima Devi, Amir Ali, Lakshman, Noor Mahal etc in it.
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The tale of Tarzan was used in Hindi movies beginning from 1937. The original Hindi Tarzan movie was called “Toofaani Tarzan” (1937). This movie was a Wadia Movietone production. It was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had John Cawas in the title role. The starcast of the movie had John Cawas, Gulshan, Boman Shroff, Chandrashekhar, Nazira, Dalpat, Ahmed Dilwar etc. A wonderful review of this movie is available in Memsaab’s blog.
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“Vidyapati” (1937) was directed by Debaki Bose. This movie had Pahadi Sanyal in the title role with Kanan Devi acting opposite him. This movie also had Prithviraj Kapoor, Chhaya Devi, K C Dey, Kidar Sharma and Leela Desai.
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Bhooli huyi yaad aayee kahaani
Posted on: October 15, 2012
While most Hindi movies of the early days used stories from Indian mythological tales, there were a few movie makers who looked westward into Arabian/ Persian tales. Then there were a few who looked even further into tales of Western world and used them.
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Roti roti roti
Posted on: October 15, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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Lesser known singers- Singer 10 (Ashraf Khan)
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This is the 10th and the last of the series on “Less known singers series”.
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Babu samjho ishaare horn pukaare
Posted on: October 13, 2012
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Today (13 october) is the birth anniverasry of Ashok Kumar as well as the death anniversary of Kishore Kumar. After Kishore Kumar’s death on this day 25 years ago, Ashok Kumar stopped celebrating his birthday, naturally. The two brothers, alongwith their third brother Anup Kumar were quite close to each other and we were privileged to see the three brothers together in all the movies that were produced by Kishore Kumar.
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Nazron ki duniya aabaad kar de
Posted on: October 13, 2012
“Najma” (1943) was a Mehboob Productions movie. It was produced and directed by Mehboob Khan. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Veena, Sitara Devi, Yakub, Murad, M Kumar etc in it.
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Ab maine jaana hai
Posted on: October 12, 2012
“Amar Jyoti” (1936) was a Prabhat Production. It was directed by V Shantaram. The movie had Chandramohan, Durga Khote, Shanta Apte, Vasanti, Vasant Desai etc in it. This movie was the first Indian movie to be screened at the Venice Film Festival.
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“Aaina”(1944) was an R D Production movie. This movie was directed by S M Yusuf. The movie had Trilok Kapoor, Husn Bano, Kaushlya, Yakub, Gope etc in it.
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