Posts Tagged ‘Dara Singh’
Natraj main naari niraali
Posted on: August 28, 2009
In Bollywood movies on gods, gods are often shown behaving in exemplary fashion, and not like humans. Perhaps that is one reason why such movies do not become popular with movie watchers. No love scenes, no songs and dance and therefore no audiences for such devotional movies.
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Kal maine ek sapna dekhaa
Posted on: July 30, 2009
I have posted a song from a movie called “Jaalsaaz” (1959). There was another movie made with the same name in 1969. This movie “Jaalsaaz” (1969) had Dara Singh in lead role and it had a new leading lady called Bambi.
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These days, when people go on a long drive in cars, they switch on their car music system and enjoy listeneing to music. But that was not always the case. In olden days, when mp3 players and cassette players were not invented, keeping a record player in the car was not a viable option.
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Even obscure movies can have wonderful music, as I have realised very well by now. And when it comes to finding out about obscure movies, Memsaab Story is just the blog. It is there that I learnt about obscure movies like “Miss Mary”,”Oonche Log”,”Ek Raaz”,”Aaya Toofaan”,”Reporter Raju” etc.Not just that, Greta (Memsaab) can identify lots and lots of humorous situations in these movies ( not intended to be humorous by the makers of these movies, incidentally).
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Mythological movies of Bollywood tended to be C grade movies in Bollywood and they, like stealth bombers escaped the radars of mainstream movie audiences almost entirely.
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This song is as rare as a hen’s teeth, I suppose. And it is rare is many ways than one.
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Dara Singh, an Arnold Schwarznegger like personality to Indians of 1950s to 1970s, acted in many C grade movies. And as happens with such movies. neither the movie, nor its songs reach the mainstream audience, and majority of people remain oblivious of their exisatence.
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Ham tere bina jee na sakenge sanam
Posted on: May 16, 2009
Ganesh, the younger brother of Pyarelal ( of Laxmikant Pyarelal fame) had assisted his brother in their earlier movies, including “Parasmani”. In fact, it is said that Ganesh and Shashikant ( brother of Laxmikant) had played big roles behind the success of their brothers in that movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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