Posts Tagged ‘Balraj Sahni’
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
Seven years, nineteen films, a celebration wedding that was the talk of the tinsel town, and then handing over the torch to the next generation. That about sums up the career of the once beauty star – Babita. Greetings to her on the 67 birthday today (20th April).
The short lived career, however, was a scintillating one. She appeared opposite to practically all the top heroes in the industry at that time, and did a number of musical romantic films, as could have be the draw for the young and beautiful lady. It is known that GP Sippy first offered the role of Sheetal, the young widow with child, for his upcoming film ‘Andaz’ (1971) to Babita. After some in-family discussions, she turned down the role, possibly considering that it might work to be a negative for her career. Another youngster, Hema Malini, took on the role. Hema Malini had made her debut in 1969, three years after Babita’s debut (‘Dus Lakh’, 1966). Both are of the same age though, having the same year of birth. The trajectories of their subsequent careers and lives, tell their own stories.
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“Bindiya” (1960) was directed by Krishnan- Panju for Kamal Brothers Pvt Ltd. The movie had Balraj Sahni, Padmini, Jagdeep, David, Siddhu,Om prakash, Rajendranath, Vijaya Chowdhury, Jayashree Gadkar, Minoo Mumtaz, Lalita Pawar, Achala Sachdev, Neelam, Hanumanthachary, L.R.Mudaliyar, Master Ashok, Master Basant, Master Saiyyeed, Baby Dalby etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
An affable presence, whether it be stage, screen or real life. And a soft and sweet voice – conversations of concern for humanity and society. A man of letters, well read, and well heard too, who continued to write till the end of his stay on this earth. A man of very impressive personality, who had the fortune of working with academic and social luminaries like Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, Dr. Zakir Hussain and Mahatma Gandhi. Balraj Sahni, a personality who could empathize with the issues of poverty and unemployment, from personal firsthand experience. And when he passed away, and was placed in state at his residence, besides a copy of Bhagwadgita, there was also placed near him a copy of ‘Das Kapital’ of Karl Marx, and tiny bust of Lenin. A man of the masses, whose roles in films like ‘Dharti Ke Lal’(1946), ‘Hum Log’ (1951), ‘Do Beegha Zameen’ (1953), ‘Heera Moti’ (1959) are a hallmark of simplicity and reality, roles that are a reflection of the mind of a thinker and a sensitive human being. It is more than coincidental that his birth anniversary is today, 1st of May, the day dedicated to the labor class. Today (1 may 2013), we celebrate the century year of his birth.
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“Chhoti Behan” (1959) was a Prasad Production movie. It was directed by L V Prasad. The movie had Rehman, Balraj Sahni, Shyama, Nanda, Sudesh Kumar, Trideep Kumar, Mehmood, Hari Shivdasani, Dhumal, Badri Prasad, Shobha Khote, Veena, Radhakrishen etc in it.
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“Satta Baazaar” (1959) was a Nagina Films production. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Balraj Sahni, Meena Kumari, Krishnakant, Suresh, Vijaya Choudhry, Asit Sen, Johnny Walker, Tiwari etc in it.
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Kajra na dekhe gajra na dekhe
Posted on: June 16, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Some gap in communications ! I am surprised at myself. Almost like having a writer’s block – besides other constraints, of course. But then I said to myself, (after having received a few friendly reminders from some fellow bloggers, checking my whereabouts) – things in life will never be done, so time to get back into the groove. 🙂
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Mere soone jeewan ka aasraa hai tu
Posted on: March 22, 2012
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This blog, which began as a one man show has by now become a multiple contributor bandwagon of likeminded music lovers. With time, we now have several contributors who have begun to achieve their own landmarks of century and multiple century marks.
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Waqt se din aur raat
Posted on: March 9, 2012
“Waqt” (1965) was a movie that like most B R Chopra movies rewrote the rules of the game. This movie was a multistarrer movie at a time when this term was not even coined. This term as well as the concept would be made use of in Hindi movies ten years later in “Sholay” (1975) and other movies.
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A man who is fully drunk and is going home at night singing a song justifying his state of intoxication is a scene that has been immortalised in Hindi movies by the song Zindagi khwaab hai (Jaagte Raho) . This song was sung by Mukesh and it was picturised on Motilal.
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