Posts Tagged ‘Jeetendra’
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Caarvaan” (1971) is one of the first films that I remember having seen on the big screen. And I was then too young to understand the sentiments of sensuality. In later years, when I would revisit this film, on TV and in reruns, I would be more mature to appreciate the emotions and passions ensconced in this song. This film was the probably the first film in which Aruna Irani attracted attention as an accomplished character actor with a wholesome meaty role as a gypsy girl, so much in love with a truck driver.
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The list of songs that belong to ” How come this song was not discussed earlier ! ” category is quite long. Here is another song of this category.
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O sapnon ki raani
Posted on: February 2, 2012
In 1960s and 1970s, movie halls used to hire a rickshaw in which they would install an announcer with a PA system as well as a record player. The rickshaw would be covered with the cardboard hoardings of handmade posters of the movie.
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Ye mulaaqaat ik bahaana hai
Posted on: January 22, 2012
I was not sure how many songs I will be able to discuss today since I am undertaking a long 20 hours journey by train and going by my past experience, I know that internet connectivity is a problem during that time. But I am pleasantly surprised to fingd that the internet has held up for nearly an hour. It helps that the train is passing through an area which is a metropilital city and as such good connectivity is assured as long as the train remains in this area (which means for another 10 minutes). So I may as well make the most of it.
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Tere sang pyaar main nahin todna
Posted on: January 18, 2012
“Naagin” (1954) is the original Naagin movie and this movie proved to be the definitive “Naagin” movie of all time. Its “been” music became the gold standard for the music of all snake movies.
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Apne nainon ko samjhaa de
Posted on: January 7, 2012
Here is a Rafi Lata duet that I was not aware of till now. This song is from “Maa Aur Mamta” (1970), which had Jeetendra and Mumtaz in lead roles.
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Mere sainyya padoon painyya
Posted on: January 3, 2012
“Naya Raasta” (1970) is a movie which was produced by I A Nadiadwala and directed by Akhtar Khalid. This movie had Asha Parekh, Jeetendra, Sujit Kumar, Lalita Pawar, Farida Jalal, D K Sapru, Veena, Balraj Sahni, Kishan Mehta, Shefali, Roopesh Kumar etc in this movie.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Just saw the response from Peevesie’s Mom for the song Ital ke ghal mein teetal) from “Bahuraani” (1963) . And I remembered, the film Jyoti (1981) is almost a frame to frame remake of the film Bahurani (1963), with Jeetendra playing the role played by Guru Dutt, Hema Malini that of Mala Sinha, Vijendra Ghatge that of Feroze Khan, Shashikala that of Lalita Pawar, Ashok Kumar that of Nazir Hussain, and Deven Verma that of Mukri.
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“Kinaara”(1977) is a movie which was produced by Pranlal Mehta and directed by Gulzar. Gulzar in fact also wrote the script of this movie as well as the lyrics of its songs. “Kinaara” (1977) was one of the few movies that was well recieved by the masses as well as the media. This movie had Jeetendra, Hema Malini, Dharmendra, Shrreram Laagoo, Dina Pathak etc in this movie.
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“Swarg Narak” (1978) was produced by Vijaya Productions and directed by Dasari Narayan Rao. This movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Jeetendra,Tanuja,Vinod Mehra,Mausami Chatterji,Shabana Azmi,Jagdeep, Om Shivpuri,Komila Wirk,Raj Mehra, Shammi, Vikram Gokhale, Birbal etc.
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