Posts Tagged ‘Asha Parekh’
Manoj Kumar’s career as a film actor and producer was looking down and out when “Shaheed” (1965) came as a respite. And with his next venture “Upkaar” (1967), Manoj Kumar hit the jackpot and he never looked back since.
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Deewaanon se ye mat poochho
Posted on: November 5, 2011
We in this blog discuss old songs that are well known as well not so well known and even seemingly non existent obscure songs. Despite discussing so many songs, there are still some extremely well known songs that are not yet covered. In case of many such songs, I thought that I had already discussed them, but I was wrong.
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In Hindi movies, there are songs for all occasions including songs meant to assuage the hurt feelings of the beloved. Now, how can one go about assuaging the hurt felings of one’s beloved ? The common and gentlemanly method is to say sorry. But then Hindi movie heroes (like Government employees) 🙂 can never see the errors of their ways and cannot say sorry. Even when they say sorry then do not mean it. In a railway station, one listens to the announcement saying ” The train is running late. We are sorry for the inconvenience”. The announcer hardly sounds sorry while making this announcement.
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when one listens to O P Nayyar’s music, one often may find his music sounding same. But when one frees one’s mind of such pre conceived notions (viz. different compositions of a music composer needs to sound different from each other), one can enjoy music the best. And in case of O P Nayyar’s music, one should listen to the music and enjoy the indescribable quality of enjoyment that these compositions bring. This quality cannot be taught/ learnt/passed on to future generations. It was a quality that went into oblivion with O P Nayyar. And we need to savour the legacy that O P Nayyar has left behind.
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“Bharosa” (1963) was a Vasu production movie and it was directed by K Shankar. This movie had actors like Guru Dutt, Asha Parekh, Shobha Khote, Sulochana Chatterji, Nana Palsikar, Neena, Shivraj, Lalita Pawar, Om Prakash, Mehmood, Sudesh Kumar etc.
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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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Megha re boley ghanan ghanan
Posted on: September 18, 2011
In Hindi movies sometimes one song follows another in a seamless manner, so that one finds it difficult to realise when one song changes into another.
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“Apna Bana Ke Dekho” (1962) is a movie which has Manoj Kumar, Asha Parekh, Achala Sachdev, Sundar, Nazir Husain etc in it. Though I have not explored the songs of this movie, I am sure that this movie has some nice songs in it
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“Pyaar Ka Mausam” (1969) is a movie which was released during my pre teen years. I never saw the movie because my elders were of the type who rationalised that movies was bad for kids. And as a result I spent much of my childhood deprived of Hindi movies.
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O more sajnaa o more balmaa
Posted on: September 5, 2011
“Baharon Ke Sapne” (1967) was one of the first movies of Rajesh Khanna ant it was released in 1967, which was the debut year for Rajesh Khanna. In this movie he was paired opposite Asha Parekh, with whom he would go on to act in quite a few other movies as well.
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