Posts Tagged ‘Kishore Kumar’
Tera phoolon jaisa rang
Posted on: December 8, 2012
“Kabhi Kabhi” (1976) was a movie that I became aware of when its title song began to play on radio. I found the title song quite antiquated in its tune. Those were the days when anything not sung by Kishore Kumar or not composed by R D Burman was regarded as old by me. I found that the music of this movie was composed by someone called Khayyam. and that is how I became familiar with this name.
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Today (8 december) is the birthday of Dharmendra as well as Sharmila Tagore. Seeing how pressed for time we all are, it is always a good idea to discuss a song that features both of them.
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Hoon kaun chhoon
Posted on: December 6, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
You must have heard the famous quotation,”Politics is the last resort of a scoundrel”. Though it is not true in ALL cases,it is used since long.
Similarly, the last resort of young boys who ran away from homes to Bombay in the 30s and 40s (and may be even today) was Hindi Films. For a growing Film industry there was a need for actors, singers, writers, technicians etc. Quantity was always available but quality was questionable. This field did not attract the educated gents from good families. So, whenever any educated i.e. a Graduate joined the industry, he was most welcome and he too would flaunt his degrees proudly. Thus you had a Lyricist named Moti,B.A. and Miss Kamal,B.A. in those days.
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“Kalabaaz” (1977) was a Pashupati Pictures (Pvt) Limited production. It was produced by Yash Kohli and directed by Ashok Roy. The movie had Dev Anand, Zeenat Aman, Pradeep Kumar, Asrani, Sujit Kumar, A.K.Hangal, Tarung Ghosh, Hercules, Dev Kumar, Maruti, Lalita Kumari, Manik Dutt, Madhup Sharma, Ram Mohan, Mohan Sherry, Rajan Haksar, Probhir Roy, Rajan Kapoor, Raj Puri, Darshan Arora, Major Anand, Gopal Bhutani, Mohd.Ali, Keshav Rana, Shobha, Vikas Anand, Prem Singh, Subhash, Ramesh Goel, Amika Johar(In a Special appearance) etc in it.
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I tend to liken the journey of this blog to a train. But nowadays I find the comparison less appropriate because a train stops at intermediate stations for a while whereas we in this blog do not stop at any of the milestones and keep going along, though we may sometimes become somewhat slower than usual for various reasons. So that way, I find the comparison of this blog with a road journey somewhat more appropriate where one need not stop anywhere, and one can see milestones going past at high speed.
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“Chham Chhama Chham” (1952) was a Mohan Pictures Production. It was directed by P L Santoshi. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Rehana, Radhakrishan, Pran, Mohana etc in it.
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“Avtaar”(1983) was a movie of Rajesh Khanna during the second innings of his acting career when he was no longer a superstar. The movies in which Rajesh Khanna acted during this phase won critical acclaim though even if Rajesh Khanna came nowhere close to regaining his lost crown.
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Ek Chhokariya beech bajariya
Posted on: November 28, 2012
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When Alam Ara was released in 1931, people were awe-struck. Additionally, there were 7 songs in it. It was a novelty that the moving images on screen not only talked but they also sang. Alam Ara was lauded as a Landmark. One would imagine that there must have been a spate of Talkie films in its wake, but surprisingly only 24 in 1931, 61 in 1932 and 76 films in 1933 were made. This was because silent films were still being made till september 1934. Further the new filmmakers were yet to join the field. After 1934 the number crossed 100 and never stopped again.
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Tumse nahin kam tumse nahin kam
Posted on: November 28, 2012
“Chham Chhama Chham” (1952) was a Mohan Pictures Production. It was directed by P L Santoshi. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Rehana, Radha Krishnan, Pran, Mohana etc in it.
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