Posts Tagged ‘Danny’
Phir wahi raat aayi jaan e jaan
Posted on: May 20, 2013
“Phir Wahi Raat” (1980) was produced by N N Sippy and directed by Danny. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Danny, Kim, Aruna Irani, Lailta Pawar, Jagdeep, Shashikala, A K Hangal, Shubha Khote, Mukri, Suresh Oberoi etc in it.
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Kaho kahaan chalen
Posted on: March 14, 2013
“Bulandi” (1980) is a recent movie by the standards of this blog. So naturally I do not have much information about the movie. 🙂 So I had to look for details of this movie online.
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Gulmohar gar tumhaara naam hota
Posted on: September 6, 2012
Today (6 september) is the birthday of Rakesh Roshan, better known as the father of Hrithik Roshan and even better known as the son of music director Roshan. 🙂
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Tu laali hai sawerewaali
Posted on: April 18, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
One of the advantages of living through a period (as opposed to reading or hearing about it second-hand) is that you have your own experiences of it that nothing else can quite substitute for. Of course, events may be recorded very accurately for posterity so that future generations get an idea of the past. But it is still not the same thing.
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Taak jhoom naacho nashe mein choor
Posted on: April 4, 2011
“Kaala Sonaa” (1975) to my mind is inspired from “Westerns”. In this movie, Feroz Khan plays Clint Eastwood. Unlike Clint Eastwood, who would barely speak, our desi tough guy would not be averse to multi task. He would find time to romance, sing and dance, in addition to performing his day job of seeking revenge for the murder of his father.
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Ham to jhuk kar salaam karte hain
Posted on: July 14, 2010
When “Fakeera” (1976) was released, I pooh poohed it as a B grade movie. Even the reviews of this movie in magazines seemed to bear me out that the movie was no great shakes.
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These days, we talk of Bollywood movie songs not being what they were in the past. For great songs, we cite the songs of 1960s and 1970s.
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It is not always that one is aware of the details of the songs that one hears. Often one is just aware of the song and that is all.
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Sun sun kasam se
Posted on: September 17, 2008
This song is a great discovery, I must say. This song is filmed on Danny, then an esoteric looking item of curiosity for Bollywood movie watchers. He looked every bit a chinky that his Sikkimese origin warranted, and moreover, he had yet to become accepted as an actor for mainstream roles. With time, his looks became accepted as mainstream, and he in fact started playing roles like Thakur saab, Heroine’s baap etc.
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