Posts Tagged ‘Farooque Sheikh’
“Saath Saath” (1982) was produced by “The Film Company”. It was produced by Dilip Dhawan. Raman Kumar was the writer and director of this movie. The movie had Farooque Sheikh, Dipti Naval, Rakesh Bedi, Satish Shah, Neena Gupta, Sudha Chopra, Avtaar Gill, A K Hangal, Helena Luke, Ifthekar, Javed Khan, Kiran Vairale, Yunus Parwaiz, Geeta Siddharth,
Anjan Srivastav etc in it.
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Pyaar mohabbat pranay lagaawat
Posted on: September 29, 2012
Today (29 september) is the birth anniversary of Ravi Baswani (September 29, 1946 – July 27, 2010). Ravi Baswani made his debut as a comedian in 1980s and he acted in some lovely comedy movies of that era, viz “Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron”, “Peechha Karo” etc.
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Tumse hi roshan hai raat meri
Posted on: September 18, 2012
Today (18 september) is the birthday of Shabana Azmi. Daughter of Kaifi Azmi and Shaukat Azmi, Shabana Azmi made her debut in arts movies in early 1970s. after a few years, she made it to the mainstream movies. She was a misfit in the usual leading lady kind of singing dancing roles, but she was good in roles that required some real acting. and she got roles that exploited her acting ability.
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By 1977, Rekha’s career was going nowhere and movie critics commented that she was wasting her career like Faryal. Faryal was held as the gold standard of career wasters those days, though I suppose Randhir Kapoor was not far behind her.
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Phhir chhidi raat baat phoolon ki
Posted on: August 25, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
If one asks old Hindi film song buffs about the song “ek chameli ke mandwe tale from ‘Cha Cha Cha’ (1964), almost all of them would say that the song was sung by Mohammed Rafi and Asha Bhonsle. Most of them would even know the name of the film and that the song was composed by Iqbal Qureshi. Those who have watched the movie or video clip of this song, all of them would remember that the song was picturised on a modest looking Helen and Chandrashekhar. But very few would know as to who wrote the song.
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Zindagi jab bhi tere bazm mein
Posted on: March 1, 2012
“Umrao Jaan” (1981) is a treasure of some of the finest ghazals that have been created in Hindi movies. Most of these songs are sung by Asha Bhonsle in the movie, but there are songs in other voices too in this movie.
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Tumko dekha to ye khayaal aayaa
Posted on: October 12, 2011
In most Hindi movies, the actors lead reel lives that has little resemblence to real life of normal people. And it was widely believed (and the myths are further perpetuated by people) that movie watchers used movies to live their fantasies and so they wanted to relive their fantasies in the movies instead of being reminded of their day to day life. And that explained the larger than life characters in Hindi movies.
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In aankhon ki masti
Posted on: January 24, 2009
Somehow I feel that “Umrao Jaan” was to Rekha what “Paakeza” was to Meena Kumari. Both these movies were of a similar genre, showing a courtesan singing Mujra in a kotha.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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