Posts Tagged ‘Anand Bakshi’
Tu raat khadi thhi chhat pe
Posted on: July 24, 2012
“Himalay Ki God Mein” (1965) was a production of Shri Prakash Pictures. The movie was produced by Shankarbhai Bhatt and directed by Vijay Bhatt. The movie had Manoj Kumar, Mala Sinha, Shashikala,Mukri, Jayant, David Abraham, Jeevankala, Kanhaiyyalal, D.K.Sapru, Achala Sachdev, Rita Pandit, S.K.Prem, Keshav Rana, Ajit, Sitaram, Mohan Jerry, Harbans Darshan, M.Arora etc in it.
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Indians in the past decades tended to suffer from low self esteem, because India as a country was a “developing nation”, a euphemism for a poor and underdeveloped nation. It was not uncommon for movies to reflect that. Tragedy movies did well at the box office. The hero typically would get bashed up at the hands of the villain throughout the movie.
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Tum mujhse door chale jaanaa na
Posted on: July 21, 2012
“Ishq Par Zor Nahin” (1970) was a Twinkle Stars presentation. It was produced by Suresh Saigal and directed by Ramesh Saigal. The movie had Sadhana, Dharmendra, Biswajeet, Kamini Kaushal,Madhumati, Nadira,Randhir, Meena.T, Udayachandrika(south),Leela Mishra, Jagdeesh Raj, Abhi Bhattacharya, Jagdeep etc in it.
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Ho naina tere naina
Posted on: July 21, 2012
“Ek Bechaara” (1972) was produced by B N Ghosh and directed by S M Abbas. the movie had Jeetendra, Rekha, Pran, Kalpana, Vinod Khanna, Johnny Walker, Bindu, Salomi, Anwar Hussain etc in it.
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Duniya o duniya tera jawaab nahin
Posted on: July 21, 2012
Today (21 july) is the birthday of Anand Bakshi (21 july 1920-30 march 2002). He was one of the most prolific lyricists in the annals of Hindi movie music. This blog has 466 songs written by him. The most prolific decade for Anand Bakshi was the decade of 1970s, which was also the decade that I grew up in.
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Rajesh Khanna (29 december 2012-18 july 2012) is no more. He breathed his last yesterday. He was just 69 years of age. He was ailing for a few months but we thought that his ailment was nothing more than routine age related problems that everyone with advancing age has to face.
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“Imaan” (1974) was a Guru Dutt pictures production. It was produced by Atmaram (younger brother of Guru Dutt). B Padmanabhan directed the movie. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Leena Chandavarkar, Anwar Hussain, Bhagwan, Keshto Mukherjee, Satyen Kappu, Johny Walkar, Murad, KrishnaKant, Mohan Choti, Bhushan Tiwari, Viju Khote, Asha Potdar, Aarti, Shivraj etc in it.
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Today (9 july 2012) is the anniversaries of a large number of film personalities. Sanjeev Kumar happens to be one of them. Today is his birth anniversary.
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Dil ki baat kahin lab pe na aa jaaye
Posted on: July 3, 2012
When I was growing up in 1970s then I had propounded a theory about the actors and movie makers of Hindi movies. My thoery was that the movie makers needed to take the movie going janta for a ride by serving them fare that they liked. In cruder terms, movie going public had to be fooled into partonising their movies. And the movie makers needed to be on their toes because it was obviously not possible to keep serving them the same fare.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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