Posts Tagged ‘Anand Bakshi’
Baithha bairi banke sainyya
Posted on: March 16, 2011
“Wo Din Yaad Karo” is a movie that was released in 1971. Though I was very much around in 1971 , I have absolutely no recollection of this movie. Obviously this movie had flopped big time. At that time, when Rajesh Khanna was ruling the roost, who was going to watch a movie starring Sanjay Khan and Nanda? No one really.
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Aaja rasiyaa man basiyaa
Posted on: March 16, 2011
When it comes to titles for Hindi movies, most of these titles are one to three words long and then tend to have certain common Hindi/Urdu words in them. Combination of an adjective like Badi/Chhoti plus a noun for a woman itself may yield half a dozen or more titles. Then using words like Afsaanaa/fasaanaa/Kahaani either alone or in combination of a few other words leads to many titles. The possibilities are in fact endless.
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“Night in London” (1967) is a movie that was clearly inspired from “An Evening in Paris” (1966). “Night in Paris” (1967) had Vishwajeet and Mala Sinha (as against Shammi Kapoor and Sharmila Tagore in “An Evening in Paris”). On the music front, “Night in London” had the fast rising Laxmikant Pyarelal.
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Here is yet another of those songs that I thought I had already discussed in this blog but I was wrong. This is a memorable rail song and I have discussed this song alright, but that was in another forum/blog while I was discussing rail songs.
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I was under the impression that I had already discussed this song in the past. It turns out that I have discussed as many as three songs from this movie, but not this one.
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I had heard this song a lot during its time. this song was a regular song in Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation’s “aaphi ke geet” programme broadcast in the morning from 8 AM to 9 AM. In addition, this song was a popular loudspeaker song as well.
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“Shehzaadaa” (1972) is one of the lesser known movies of Rajesh Khanna, at least as far as I am concerned. It must have flopped badly for me to have missed hearing about this movie during its time, though I could be wrong.
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“Mehboob Ki Mehandi” (1971) is a movie starring Rajesh Khanna and Leena Chandawarkar. This Muslim social movie had some wonderful songs in it, which remain popular to this day.
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Sun re sun albele
Posted on: December 17, 2010
Hindi Tarzan movies typically had Dara Singh playing the role of Tarzan, with Mumtaz playing his love interest. Here, in this movie called “Tarzan Comes To Delhi” (1965), Mumtaz decided to bring Tarzan in contact with civilisation. Here she takes Tarzan and his diminutive assistant Bhagwan to a hotel.
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By mid 1970s, Dilip Kumar had all but retired from acting. But Ramesh Sippy pursuaded him to come back from retirement and act again. This much awaited comeback vehicle of Dilip Kumar was “Shakti” (1982). In this movie, Dilip Kumar plays an upright police officer for whom his duty comes before his family.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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