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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
‘Ek Sapera Ek Lutera’ (1965) is a musical bonanza from the pen of Asad Bhopali and the baton of Usha Khanna. The film itself is a B grade production, and did just OK on the box office. Produced under the banner of Dimple Films, Bombay and directed by Naresh Kumar. The star cast is a typical B grade lineup for those times, featuring Feroze Khan, Kumkum, Uma Dutt, Mumtaz Begum, Shyam Kumar, Indira Bansal, Tuntun, Ramavtar, Rashid Khan, Daljeet, Sheikh, Sunder, Gopal Ralhan, Rani, Madhu Apte, Krishna, Khairaati etc. The film is a costume action cum romance drama, that is based on the life style and culture of snake charmers and gypsies.
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Tera bhi kisi pe dil aaye
Posted on: September 29, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hind movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The decade of 60s was the most prolific and busy for Usha Khanna. A very large body of work of music compositions created by her, came during these years. And all the music she has created is wonderfully hummable and still tingles the heart when one of her songs is played. The 1965 film, ‘Ek Sapera Ek Lutera’ is no different. Practically all the songs of this film went on to become very popular, although the movie itself was a B grade production, and did just OK on the box office. Produced under the banner of Dimple Films, Bombay and directed by Naresh Kumar, the film has lyrics written by Asad Bhopali and the music composition is by Usha Khanna. The star cast is a typical B grade lineup for those times, featuring Feroze Khan, Kumkum, Uma Dutt, Mumtaz Begum, Shyam Kumar, Indira Bansal, Tuntun, Ramavtar, Rashid Khan, Daljeet,Sheikh, Sunder, Gopal Ralhan, Rani, Madhu Apte, Krishna, Khairaati etc. The film is a costume action cum romance drama, that is based on the life style and culture of snake charmers and gypsies.
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“Main Wohi Hoon” (1966) is a B grade movie produced by M M Productions. B A Mehmood is the producer and this movie was directed by A Shamsheer. This movie had actors like Feroz Khan, Kumkum, I S Johar,Bela Bose, Roopesh Kumar, Madan Puri,Johny whisky, S A Bakar, Munshi Munaqqa etc in it.
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“Main Wohi Hoon” (1966) is a B grade movie produced by M M Production. A Shamsheer was the director of this movie. The star cast of the movie included Feroz Khan, Kumkum, Murad, Johnny Walker, I. S. Johar, Madan Puri, Roopesh Kumar etc.
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I am aware of a movie called “Aan Baan” (1956), but it turns out that there was another movie of the same name in 1972 as well. I am surprised that I should know about the 1956 movie of this name , but be totally oblivious of the 1972 movie of this name.
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“Tel Maalish Boot Polish” (1961) is a B grade movie which was produced by Rajan films and it was directed by Romney Dey. This movie had Sheikh Mukhtar, Chandrashekhar, Kumkum, Madan Puri, Agha, Amar, Radhika etc in it. This is the kind of B grade movie that had good scope foe being successful, what with this being an action movie with the original action hero in Sheikh Mukhtar. The fact that this movie had great music as befitting a B grade movie also helped.
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“Teasing” songs where the hero teases the heroine while singing a roadside Romeo genre of song is not quite my cup of tea, especially when the hero is someone like Rajendra Kumar. But I am prepared to condone such teasing when the hero is someone like Shammi Kapoor or Kishore Kumar. Who said that I am impartial in my likings of actors. 😀 Yes,I am objective and impartial in my likings only when it comes to singers, not actors. 🙂
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“Tel Maalish Boot Polish”(1961) is a B grade movie whaich was a Rajan Films productions and it was directed by Romney Dey. The movie had Chandrashekhar, Kumkum, Sheikh Mukthaar, Madanpuri, Radhika, Moppet Raja, Amar, Nasreen, Parashuram, JayKumar, JankiDass, Agha, Ravikant, JeevanKala, Ratan Gaurang , M.B.Shetty etc in it.
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I am very much aware of this movie called “Tu Nahin Aur Sahi” (1960). I have in fact discussed as many as three songs from this movie in the past.
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There have been at least two movies called “Salaam Memsaahab”. One of them was produced in 1979 and another one in 1961. Both these movies apparently proved to be lame ducks at the box office.
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