Posts Tagged ‘Anjaan’
“Ek Raat” (1967) is a movie which was produced by a production house called East and West movies. Rajnath was the director. This B grade movie had Sheikh Mukhtar, Simi Garewal, Madan Puri, Samson, Shyama, Laxmi Chhaya, Ravi Kumar, David Abraham etc in it.
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Dil ka ladakpan shuroo ho gayaa
Posted on: October 17, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Greetings to Simmi Grewal on her birthday today (17th October).
Simmi ji, known to be one of the best dressed ladies in the industry, always appearing in very simple attire, yet very elegant, just the way she carries herself. Her preference for white has earned her the nickname of “Lady in the White”.
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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 Mehmood, on his birth anniversary (29th september).
The name brings on the image of a dhoti clad south Indian Brahmin music teacher with a clean shaven head, and a long choti. The year is 1968. Comedy actor, producer and director Mehmood, released his film Padosan. With Kishore Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Keshto Mukherjee etc., the film has gone on to be the most enduring and memorable comedy films in Hindi cinema. (As the story goes, once early in his acting career, Mehmood went to Kishore Kumar to request for casting in one of his films. Kishore da was reluctant, considering that he himself was generally doing comic roles. Mehmood came away with a comment that one day, he (Mehmood) would get an opportunity to produce films, and then he would definitely cast Kishore da in it. It happened with Padosan 🙂 )
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8th september is Asha Bhonsle’s birthday. On this occasion, I have discussed a couple of rare and special songs sung by Asha Bhonsle. Here is another fantastic song sung by her.
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Sanwaar de jo pyaar se
Posted on: August 14, 2011
I just realised that the full name of this movie is “Adventures of Robinhood and bandits” ! Phew ! That must make it the longest title ever in Hindi movies.
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Kabhi hoti nahin hai jiski haar
Posted on: August 4, 2011
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Normally it is believed that old songs are obscure songs and new songs are better known songs. But that is not always the case. I find that several recent songs (anything created in 1970s and later are recent by the standards of this blog. 😀 ) have been forgotten in double quick time.
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Mere do nainaa matwaare
Posted on: June 29, 2011
When one listens to the songs of the golden era, one realises that the overall quality of the songs was quite high. Not just the big name music directors, even small time music directors were creating quality stuff. The only difference between big names and small names was marketability, otherwise qualitywise, even music directors confined to B and C grade movies were just as good as the A grade music directors.
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Bahaaron thhaam lo ab dil
Posted on: May 12, 2011
Hindi movie scenario was so rich during the golden era that great music composers almost grew on trees. Some of them went on to become legends, but there were many great composers that failed to land sufficient number of assignments that their talents merited.
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Johny Walker was perhaps the first non Hero who began to have songs picturised on him on a regular basis. Many of these songs became very popular.
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Rajesh Khanna, who was born on 29th December 1942, made his mark as a superstar in Hindi movies sometime in the second half of 1969, when “Aradhana” (1969) was released. This movie gave him an identity and a persona which became his trademark.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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