Posts Tagged ‘Bina Rai’
Jab raat nahin kat’ti
Posted on: December 18, 2011
“Changez Khan” (1957) was a B grade movie which was produced by N C Films. Kedar Kapoor was the director and the star cast included names like Premnath,Bina Rai,Helen, Johnny Walker, Tiwari, Sheikh Mukhtar, Jeevan, Leela Misra etc.
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Qismat ke khel niraaley
Posted on: November 16, 2011
“Talaash” (1957) was a Anand Films, Bombay production. It was directed by Vishram Bedekar. The star cast included names like Ashok Kumar, Bina Rai, Jagirdaar, Yaakoob, Ameeta, Raj Mehra, Jamal, Mridula, Radhika, Chaman Puri, Sushil Gupta, Eruch Tarapore, Shakuntala, Pal Sharma, Rajesh Sharma, Rajan Kapoor, Ramlal, Master Chhotu, Tiwari, Maqbool, Nazir Kashmiri, Heera Sawant etc in it, Mumtaz Ali etc.
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Khanke to khanke kyun khanke
Posted on: August 19, 2011
I may think that I know a lot about old Hindi movies and their songs, but I often find myself humbled as I find my knowledge to be quite insignificant and inadequate vis a vis the knowledge possessed by the visitors of this blog. Thanks to the invaluable informations provided by the readers through their comments, farmaishes, lyrics, e mails etc, I learn new things almost on a daily basis.
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1963 was a year when Hindi movie music was at its pinnacle. There were countless musical extravanzas that were released that year. Just thinking about the names of the movies boggles the mind. In this year, we had movies like “Mere Mehboob”, “Apna Bana Ke dekho”, “Asli Naqli”, “Meri Soorat teri aankhen”,”Sehra”,”Ye raaste hain pyaar ke”,”Ustaadon ke ustaad”,”Bharosa”,”Dil Ek Mandir”,”Professor”,”Gumrah”,”Pyaar kiya to darna kyaa”,”Bluff Master”,”dil Hi to Hai”,”Ek Dil Sau Afsaane”,”Aaj aur Kal”,”Gehra Daag”,”Bandini”,”Dil Tera Deewaana”,”Tere Ghar Ke Saamne”,”Rustam Sohrab”,”Bin Baadal Barsaat” etc etc.
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Apne khayaalon ko samjhaa deejiye
Posted on: March 8, 2011
“Marine Drive” (1955) is a B grade movie starring Ajit and Bina Rai. And like all such movies, this movie too had A grade music. The movie and its music may not be very well known today, but the music is wonderful to listen to, if one digs up the songs of this movie.
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I have discussed as many as five songs from “Bandi” (1957) in the past. Here is a song from this movie that begins immediately after the opening credits are over. So this song just misses out from becoming a movie opening song.
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Though few people today talk of this movie, “Durgesh Nandini” (1956) was a well known movie even in 1970s when I was growing up in the sense that I used to read about this movie in magazines.
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“Anarkali” (1953) is full of iconic songs. I have discussed as many as six songs from this movie in the past, but there are still songs (that too iconic songs) that are not yet covered.
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“Anarkali” (1953) was the first movie made on the tale of Salim and Anarkali,”Mughal e Azam” (1960) being the second such movie.
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Aa jaa ab to aa jaa
Posted on: September 25, 2010
Here is a song that can be called an iconic song among iconic songs. “Aa jaa ab to aa jaa” from “Anarkali” (1953) is one of the most well known songs in Hindi movie history. It is from “Anarkali” (1953) the original “Anarkali” movie, which came seven years before the other Anarkali movie namely “Mughal e Azam” (1960).
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