Posts Tagged ‘Asha Bhonsle’
I had mentioned in an earlier discussion that Helen’s aspirations (if any) of playing mainstream rolers in Hindi movies (where mainstream roles means donning a sari /salwar kurta etc and singing songs that are the preserve of leading ladies) were realised on movies like “Cha Cha Cha” (1964) and “Lahu Ke Do Rang” (1979). She in fact won the Filmfare award for best supporting actress too, for her role in “Lahu Ke Do Rang” (1979).
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Aaj main dekhoon jidhar jidhar
Posted on: September 23, 2011
“Doli” (1969) is a movie which was produced by Bahaar films combines. Hargobind Duggal was the producer and Adurthi Subba Rao directed the movie. This movie had a star cast consisting of names like Rajesh khanna, Babita,Prem Chopra, Om prakash, Nazima,Nana Palsikar, Raj Mehra, sulochana Latkar, Sunder, Kanhaiyyalal, Pandhari bai,Randhir,Shivraj, Sulochana Chatterjee, Hari Shivdasani, Shammi, Praveen Paul, Polson, Nazir Kashmiri, Birbal, Johnny Whisky, Narbada Shankar, Radheshyam etc.
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I am aware of a movie called “Aan Baan” (1956), but it turns out that there was another movie of the same name in 1972 as well. I am surprised that I should know about the 1956 movie of this name , but be totally oblivious of the 1972 movie of this name.
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Kitni haseen ho tum
Posted on: September 22, 2011
“Ye Dil Kisko Doon” (1963) is not a movie that I know much about. Whatever I know about this movie is thanks to the information sent to me by Prakashchandra alongwith the lyrics of this song from the movie.
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“Goonj” (1952) was a Kwatra Art Production movie. It was directed by Phani Majumdar. The movie had Bhagwan, Suresh, Suraiya, Sapru, Majnu, Madan Puri, Randhir, Ravikant etc in it.
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Ambuwaa ke ped suhaane
Posted on: September 20, 2011
“Sabak” (1950) is a movie which was produced by Sadiq Productions and directed by its owner, namely M Sadiq. The movie had Karan Dewan,Munawwar Sultana,Om Prakash,Jagirdaar,jillo etc in it.
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Kabhi ithhlaa ke chalte ho
Posted on: September 19, 2011
“Aapki Parchhaayiaan” (1964) was an Emkay Productions movie where EmKay stood for Mohan Kumar who was also the director of this movie. This movie had Dharmendra, Supriya Choudhary, Shashikala, Suresh, Nazir Hussain, Leela Chitnis, Om Prakash, Vijayalaxmi, Manorama etc in it.
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“Gharana”(1961) is a movie that was produced by Gemini Films and directed by s S Vasan. This movie had actors like Raj Kumar, Rajendra Kumar,Asha Parekh,Shubha Khote,Minu Mumtaz,Devika, Bipin Gupta, Lalita Pawaar,Aghaa,Kanhaiyyalal etc.
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I have discussed half a dozen songs from “Sujata” (1959) already and all these songs have been extremely well known songs, including songs that have gone on to become iconic songs.
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“Cha Cha Cha” (1964) is Bhavdeep Films production. It was produced and Directed by Chandrashekhar. He was also the hero of this movie. He had signed up Helen to play the heroine opposite him. So this movie was one of the rare occasions when Helen was not a one song wonder but got to sing lots of songs and got to act in a Bhartiya Naari kind of role.
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