Posts Tagged ‘Chitragupta’
“Guest House” (1959) is an obscure movie by now. It is a movie where Ajit and Shakila played lead roles. Yes, those were the days when Ajit used to act as hero.
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Main kaun hoon kyaa hoon
Posted on: July 27, 2009
Kishore Kumar, who made his singing debut in 1948 with “Ziddi”(1948) soon became an actor-singer too. In 1950s, he began to come into his own in this role.
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Bollywood movies are supposed to be Hindi movies and their censor certificate mentions them as such. If one looks at the censor certificates of movies, one finds that a few movie are certified not as Hindi but as Urdu, For instance Nassir Hussain blockbuster “ham Kisi se ka nahin” is described as an Urdu movie by its censor certificate.
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The word “Chaand” (moon) found frequent use in bollywood songs in the past. It is a surprise that I have not yet thought of a catgory called “Chaand” song though I must have posted dozens of songs with this word in them. I guess I have included these songs in the category of “chaayaageet” songs.
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Jiska joota usi ka sar
Posted on: July 3, 2009
Here is a fun song which I recall hearing a few times in distant past, but without having any indepth knowledge about the song.
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Chalo chalo chalen
Posted on: July 2, 2009
Many movies have been made in Bollywood on the story of Alibaba and forty thieves. The first such movie, that I am aware of, was made in 1954. It was a C grade movie and it had Mahipal and Shakila in lead roles.
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The movie “Aankh michauli” (1962) is a totally obscure movie as far as I am concerned. It had Shekhar and Mala Sinha in lead roles.
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In Indian thinking, pursuit of money was considered bad and people who had too much money were considered evil. In fact, that stereotyping can be seen very much in older Bollywood movies, where the grocer aka lala ( often played by Kanhaiyalal, Jeewan etc) is always shown as an evil character.
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Gori tori baanki chitwan mein
Posted on: May 30, 2009
Manna Dey, with some exceptions, was not a mainsteam singer of choice. His voice was often used for bit actors and sometimes for lead actors too. Most of his songs were supposed to be there for light hearted fun. Yes, Manna Dey would be required to sing a semi classical song, which was supposed to be picturised in a light hearted way.
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Tumhi ho maata pitaa tumhi ho
Posted on: May 23, 2009
There are some Bollywood songs which became so popular that they became part of Indian life. For instance, many filmy prayers/ bhajans became real life prayers/ bhajans. I have already posted a few such songs.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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