Posts Tagged ‘Dilip Kumar’
There were three top heroes in Hindi movies in 1950s. Of them, viz. Raj Kapoor expired in 1980s and Dev Anand just a few days back. One of them, viz Dilip Kumar is still around. He in fact is celebrating his 89th birthday today. He was born on 11 th december 1922 in Peshawar,now in Pakistan. He made his debut in Hindi movies with “Jwaar Bhata” (1944) and his made his mark as a hero with “Jugnu” (1947) and soon he became a hot property in Hindi movies and earned him the sobriquet of “Tragedy king”. It is not an accurate description, becuase he has worked in several light hearted movies as well.
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Guzre hain aaj ishq mein
Posted on: December 10, 2011
“Dil Diya Dard Liya” (1966) is one of the first “old” movies that I became aware of as a pre teen kid, and my impression about old movies being melancholic stuff was mainly based on this movie, its songs and also its title.
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When I was growing up a a pre teen and later teenage kid in 1970s, I, alongwith the rest of India was a big fan of Kishore Kumar. Rafi, the erstwhile dominant male playback singer of he previous two decades found himself virtually jobless for nearly one year, before he began to get singing assignments again.
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The original “Devdas” was produced in 1935. The next Devdas came up exactly twenty years later, in 1955.
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“Amar” (1954) is a movie starring Dilip Kumar and Madhubala. Those were the days when the two of them were actually romantically involved and their off screen chemistry used to be visible in their on screen performances too.
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Tere sadqe balam na kar koi gham
Posted on: July 14, 2011
“Amar” (1954) is a movie starring Dilip Kumar and Madhubala. This movie had several songs that became quite popular. I have discussed five songs from this movie in the past.
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The movie “Kohinoor” (1960) could also be called Kohe naghma, or a treasure trove of great songs. This movie has one great song following another great song. I have so far discussed six songs from this movie and there are more to come !
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Chalenge teer jab dil par
Posted on: July 11, 2011
“Kohinoor” (1960) is a movie starring Dilip Kumar and Meena Kumari. This movie is studded with one fine song after another, and I have already discussed five songs from this movie.
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Aansoo ki aag leke teri yaad aayi
Posted on: July 10, 2011
“Yahudi” (1958) is a movie starring Sohrab Modi,Dilip Kumar and Meena Kumari. This movie, as the name suggests, is a historical mythological movie of the Roman era of 2000 years ago, where Dilip Kumar plays Roman prince Marcus and Meena Kumari plays a jew called Hannah. Being a Hindi movie adoption, they naturally fall in love and in fact sing lots of songs.
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Beimaan tore nainwaa nindiyaa na aaye
Posted on: May 3, 2011
When a small kid has to be put to sleep, the mother sings him/her a soothing lullaby. It is not just that only small kids appreciate lullabies. Grownups are just as receptive to them. So I see no reason why a female should not sing lullabies to her husband/lover in case he too is required to be put to sleep.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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