Posts Tagged ‘Kalyanji Anandji’
Ham tumhen chaahte hain aise
Posted on: October 6, 2010
During 1970s, Amitabh Bachchan had taken over the crown of the number one male actor of the decade. The one actor, who looked like a challenger was Vinod Khanna, but Vinod Khanna’s mind was not into his career. He became a devotee of Achaarya Rajneesh (that is how he was then known, before he began to call himself “Osho”). As a result, he ended up nowhere. He neither got the spiritual nirvaana from his spiritual guru nor could he devote himself whole heartedly to his movie career. If he could only devote himself whole heartedly to his movie career, he could have been number one, at least briefly, and who knows, may be for even longer durations.
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Aaj hai do october ka din
Posted on: October 2, 2010
Today is second october, which is an important day in India. It was on this day that Mahatma Gandhi, regarded as father of the nation, was born in 1869. Another important leader, Lal Bahadur Shashtri, was also born on the same day in 1904.
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Chal mere dil lehraa ke chal
Posted on: September 25, 2010
While looking for songs, or rather while stumbling upon songs, I often realise how little I know about old movies and their songs.
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Tumhi mere meet ho
Posted on: September 21, 2010
In late 1950s and early 1960s, several comedians were seeking to become heroes in Hindi movies. The names of Johny Walker, Mehmood and Jagdeep readily comes to mind. They all acted as heroes in a few movies each, but keeping a sombre face while acting out serious scenes (viz romantic scenes, sad scenes) was not exactly their strong suit. And that is why most of these ventures ended up in failures.
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This post is written by Santosh Ojha, a relatively new visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Bollywood movie music
The charm of Hindi films for me began from the time I began watching them avidly. The charm lay in those unique features of the Hindi film; multi-starrer, great fight scenes, action-packed, zingy songs and scintillating dialogues. If this was coupled with a lost-and-found brother/friend plot, with messages on religious harmony, and with good triumphing over evil, what more could a teenager want!
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“Dil Bhi Tera Ham Bhi Tere” (1960) was a movie that had Balraj Sahni and Usha Kiran in lead roles. Dharmendra made his debut in this movie.
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If one makes a list of actors for whom Rafi has sung, the list of names will run into hundreds of names. In addition to singing for well known legendary actors, Rafi has sung for lesser actors too.
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“Dil Bhi Tera Ham Bhi Tere” (1960) is a B grade movie, going by its star cast. It has Balraj Sahni and Kumkum in lead roles and Dharmendra makes his acting debut in this movie.
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It is difficult to imagine how Mukesh (of dard bhare naghme fame) would sound on Mehmood (known for loud comedy). Well, stereotyping aside,we actually have instances of Mukesh singing for Mehmood.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
As is well-known, Aradhana was THE movie that was the turning point in Rajesh Khanna’s career. However, he did act in a few movies before Aradhana.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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