Posts Tagged ‘Jeetendra’
Till 1960s,when India was in terrible shape on almost all fronts,and Indians depended on foodgrain imports even to feed themselves, it was the Prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri who decided that India needed to be self sufficient in growing food stuffs. He also gave a slogan “Jai Jawan Jai Kissan”.
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Dil mein kya hai
Posted on: January 14, 2009
Jeetendra, who can be said to have taken over from Shammi Kapoor when it came to roles that called for vigorous dancing, was nicknamed Jumping Jack. I have no idea which movie earned him that sobriquet. My suspicion is that it was the movie “Farz”. And just how vigoorously could he dance ? I think this song from “Jigri Dost” gives us some idea.
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Dilbar dil se pyaare
Posted on: January 13, 2009
When Shammi Kapoor began his bull run as a hero, Shankar Jaikshan was the music director for his movies, but when he ended his bull run,Shankar jaikishan was replaced by R D Burman ( in Teesri Manzil).
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Mukesh was known for singing sad songs of various shades. Most of these songs went on to become immortal songs that are popular to this day.
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Aadmi musaafir hai
Posted on: January 1, 2009
Late 1970s and early 1980 were the years that saw Reena Roy playing some nice roles. It began from Apnapan and led to movies like “Asha”, “Dhanwan” etc.
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Tumse O haseena
Posted on: January 1, 2009
In 1960s when Shammi Kapoor was ruling the roost with his brand of movies, he had his clones too in the form of Joy Mukherjee and Vishwajeet.
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Jaane ham sadak ke logon se
Posted on: December 31, 2008
Jeetendra has been picturised in Bollywood movies while riding all kinds of vehicles from bullock carts to trains, and from buses and trucks. In one movie, Jeetendra was even shown riding an elephant.
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Here is a “choodi” song from a movie called “Jaani Dushman”, which is picturised on Jeetendra, Neetu Singh and Sarika.
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Sundari aay haay sundari
Posted on: December 21, 2008
As Tapori songs go, this was creme de la creme of its genre which I liked a lot in 1970s. And guess what, I forgot all about this song. That is, till two days ago, when I accidentally stumbled upon this song again.And this time I realised that the song was from “Anokhi Ada”, the movie from which I have posted two songs already !
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Abke bahaar aayi hai
Posted on: December 20, 2008
I stumbled upon this song from a forgotten movie called “Aulaad”. What a song for nostalgia buffs this turns out to be ! This song is sung by Rafi under the music direction of Chitragupta ( father of Anand Milind) and Majrooh Sultanpuri is the lyricist.
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