Posts Tagged ‘Chitragupta’
When the movie is called “Afsaana”, one expects to see the famous movie starring Ashok Kumar. This movie is called Afsaana, and Ashok Kumar is in it, but it is not that famous movie of 1951, which was the original movie that had identical twin brothers as well as “separated in the mela” relatives. 🙂 This “Afsaana” in contrast is a movie of recent vintage and it hardly troubled the box office much. Apart from Ashok Kumar figuring in both movies, “Afsaana” (1951) and “Afsaana” (1966) have little in common.
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I have discussed one song from “Suhaag Sindoor” (1961) in the past. At that time, I had little knowledge about that movie.
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Baaghon mein khilte hain phool
Posted on: September 14, 2011
“Suhaag Sindoor” (1961) is a Chandra Films production. This film was directed by R Krishnan and S Panju. This movie had Manoj Kumar, Mala Sinha, Balraj Sahni,Johny Walker, Shubha Khote, Raj Mehra, Kanhaiyyalal, ulhas, Leela Mishra,Shammi etc in it.
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“Tel Maalish Boot Polish” (1961) is a B grade movie which was produced by Rajan films and it was directed by Romney Dey. This movie had Sheikh Mukhtar, Chandrashekhar, Kumkum, Madan Puri, Agha, Amar, Radhika etc in it. This is the kind of B grade movie that had good scope foe being successful, what with this being an action movie with the original action hero in Sheikh Mukhtar. The fact that this movie had great music as befitting a B grade movie also helped.
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“Tel Maalish Boot Polish”(1961) is a B grade movie whaich was a Rajan Films productions and it was directed by Romney Dey. The movie had Chandrashekhar, Kumkum, Sheikh Mukthaar, Madanpuri, Radhika, Moppet Raja, Amar, Nasreen, Parashuram, JayKumar, JankiDass, Agha, Ravikant, JeevanKala, Ratan Gaurang , M.B.Shetty etc in it.
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Deewaane tum deewaane ham
Posted on: August 26, 2011
“Bezubaan” (1962) was a movie of Gope productions, which was a production house owned by Gope and his brother Ram Kamlani. Ram Kamlanai was also the director of this movie.
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“Chaand Mere Aaja” (1960) is a movie that had Bharat Bhushan, Nanda, Maruthi Rao, B.M.Vyas, Achala Sachdev, Lalitha pawaar,jeevan, D.K.sapru, Veena etc in it. This was a Murli Movies productions and it was directed by Raam Dariyaani.
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Maine barson neer bahaaye
Posted on: July 24, 2011
“Angaarey” (1973), though a fairly recent movie by the standards of this blog, is an obscure movie. Not much information is available on this movie.
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Chanda ki kirnon se lipti hawaayen
Posted on: July 6, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusisat of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The enticement of the tinsel world of films has fostered many real life stories of people from all walks of life giving up their professions and jobs, with an aspiration to make it a success in the film world. The story of the famous composer Chitragupt (full name Chitragupt Stivastava) is also of this kind. Born in 1917 in Karmaini (Chhapra District), Bihar, Chitragupt did a double MA in Economics and Journalism, and was working as a lecturer in Patna. In the early 40s, he gave it all up and came to Bombay with a dream to make it big, not as an actor, but as a singer and music director. He worked as an assistant with SN Tripathi, who became his mentor. In 1946, Chitragupt got his first independent assignment as a composer for the movie Toofan Queen. Not a success on the box office, the film did nothing much to help progress Chitragupt’s career. He would do another 20 odd films between 1946 and 1952, before coming into his own in the early 1950s. The 1952 film Sindbad the Sailor, though not a huge success in itself, its music was very successful. In 1955, SD Burman recommended him to the AVM studios (in Madras), which started an association that lasted for many years. During this time, he composed music for many hit films from AVM viz., Mein Bhi Ladki Hoon, Barkha, Mein Chup Rahoongi, Bhaabhi etc.
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