Posts Tagged ‘Amitabh Bachchan’
Chaand akela jaaye sakhi ri
Posted on: January 6, 2012
“Aalap” (1977) was a movie that turned out to be a commercial disaster. Now, with the benefit of hindsight, it is easy for me to say that movies should not be judged on the basis of their box office performance, but unfortunately that is the single most important yardstick to judge the success of a movie. After the failure of this movie, Amitabh Bachchan resolved not to work in an offbeat movie like this. After a few years, he worked in another such off beat movie called “Main Aazaad Hoon” with similar disastrous results at the box office.
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“Bemisaal” (1982) is a movie which was produced by Debesh Ghosh and directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie was a big budget movie which spared no expenses and had Amitabh Bachchan in the lead role.
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Diye jalte hain phool khilte hain
Posted on: January 4, 2012
- In: "Phool" song | Amitabh Bachchan present (without lip syncing) | Amitabh Bachchan songs | Feelings of heart | Kishore Kumar solo | Kishore Kumar songs | Lyrics by Khyati Bhatt | Lyrics contributed by readers | Sentimental song | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1973 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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4th january is the day when R D Burman left for the heavenly abode at quite a young age of 54. He was easily the most influential music director of my formative age, viz 1970s. R D Burman as the music director, Kishor Kumar as the male playback singer and Rajesh Khanna as the male superstar arrived at the scene almost simultaneously and they all left their indelible mark of Hindi movie industry.
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“Bemisaal” (1982) is a movie which was produced by Shri Lokenath Chitramandir. Debesh Ghosh was the producer and this movie was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. This movie was based on a novel by Ashutosh Mukherjee. This movie was a big budget movie starring the then superstar Amitabh Bachchan too. The starcast contained Amithabh bachchan, Vinod Mehra,Rakhee, Aruna Irani, Deven Verma, Amaranth, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Asit Sen,Om Shivpuri,Gautam Sarin, Goga Kapoor,Vijay Sharma, Samar Roy, Prathima devi, Johney, Anjan Shrivastav, Master Mayur, Master Vikaas, Baby Khushboo,Master Romeo etc.
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“Mili” (1975) was a copy of “Anand” (1971) which in turn was a copy of a Japanese award winning movie that Hrishikesh Mukherji had seen in a film festival sometime in late 1960s. I do not now remember the name of this movie but I had read about it in magazines of 1970s. I request other readers to tell me the name of this movie which inspired these movies.
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- In: Amitabh Bachchan songs | Amitabh Bachchan songs by Kishore Kumar | Feelings of heart | Guest posts | Kishore Kumar solo | Kishore Kumar songs | Post by Sudhir | Sentimental song | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1975 | Translation by Sudhir | Translations by readers | Yearwise breakup of songs
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Remembering Kishore Da on the anniversary of his passing away.
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Maine kahaa phoolon se
Posted on: October 9, 2011
Hrishikesh Mukherjee had watched a Japanese movie, which depicts a man who has only a few days to live but instead of being melancholic, he lives his life cheerfully and spreads happiness all around him. Hrishikesh Mukherjee liked that movie so much that he adpated the movie into Hindi and created “Anand” (1970). Not content with that, he re adapted the same adaptation to change the gender of the main character and he thus came up with “Mili” (1975). Both these movies were critically well acclaimed and well received by the ordinary movie watchers as well.
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When I began this blog nearly three years ago, I discussed only one song a day. That gave me lots of time to discuss the song. I would have a detailed discussion on the song, and then I would also have a translation of the song.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The general memory of the 1969 movie, Saat Hindustaani, is linked to the fact that it was the debut movie for Amitabh Bachhan. However, in my mind, this movie is more associated with the writer director Khwaja Ahmed Abbas or KA Abbas. The Wikipeadia page on Abbas Saab contains very interesting information about this personality, e.g. fact like his family tree is traced back to Ayub Ansari, a close associate of Prophet Mohammed, and that his grandfather was one of the prominent soldiers in the 1857 uprising against the Britishers and a martyr, sentenced to be blown on a cannon, and that Abbas Saab is the great great great grandfather of Shahid Kapoor. Besides these familial facts, Abbas Saab has been a prolific writer and journalist, and a noted story writer and film maker in Hindi Cinema. His column ‘Last Page’ in ‘Blitz’, the Bombay based newspaper, ran from 1935 to 1987, the longest running column in the history of Indian journalism. He wrote 73 books in Hindi, Urdu and English, and is considered as one of the premier Urdu short story writers of the 20th century.
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Ab to hai tumse har khushi apni
Posted on: April 17, 2011
We often read about real life following reel life and vice versa. I am not talking about movie actors playing roles based on some other real life people. I am talking of the actors playing their own real life stories on the silver screen.There have been quite a few cases where actors enacted their own real life stories in movies.
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