Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
Today (27 september) is the 80th birthday of Yashraj Chopra, a veteran producer and director of Hindi movies. He began his career as a director in “Dhool Ka Phool” (1959) which was produced by B R Chopra, his elder brother. He directed five movies under the banner of “B R Chopra productions”. All of them were hit movies. He won Filmfare best director award for one of these movies, viz. “Waqt” (1965). In all he won Four Filmfare awards for best direction and four Filmfare awards for best movies in his career.
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Today (26 september) is the 89th birth anniversary of Dev Anand (26 september 1923- 3 december 2011). On this occasion, here is a song from “Lootmaar” (1980). In fact this song has two versions. The first version is sung mainly by Kishore Kumar, with voices of Varsha Bhonsle and Shivangi Kolhapure also figuring. This version is lip synced by Dev Anand, Tina Munim and a kid playing Dev Anand’s son. I request our knowledgeable readers to help identify this kid.
PS-Now I have read at wikipedia that this kid was Tina Munim’s real brother called Manan.
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In Hindi movies, the hero is often a small kid in the first reel who then transforms into the grown up hero in the blink of an eye. The kid who plays the role of the young hero shares the same hair style, dress and mannerism that the grown up hero is known for. Thus master Mayur (playing Amitabh Bachchan’s childhood role) would sport the same hairstyle and dress that Amitabh Bachchan was known for, and he would in fact even sing love song for the small girl who would later grow up to become the heroine. 🙂
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Dhitang dhitang boley
Posted on: September 26, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
AAWAAZ (1956) was a Mehboob Production film directed by Zia Sarhadi. I do not know the story of the film but when Mehboob and Zia Sarhadi come together for a film, one can expect that with their leftist ideologies, the film would depict the class conflict between rich and poor. The film had Rajendra Kumar and Nalini Jaywant in the lead roles with Usha Kiran, Zul Vellani, Nazir Hussain, Leela Chitnis, D K Sapru, Jagdeep, Anwar Hussain, etc in the supporting roles. With a story of class conflicts and Nazir Hussain and Leela Chitnis in the film, one can visualise that the film would have a lot of melodramatic contents.
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“Malhar” (1951) was a Darling Films production. It was directed by Harish. The movie had Arjun Bakshi, Shammi, Moti Sagar, Sonali Devi, S K Prem, Sunalini Devi, Kanhaiyalal, Sankata Prasad etc in it.
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“Baabul” (1950) was a Sunny Pictures Production. It was produced and directed by S U Sunny. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Nargis, Munawar Sultana, Amar, A. Shah, Jankidas, H. Pahari, Vinod, Ismail, Nawab Premi, Jugnu, Chandabala, Seema, Meher, Rajbala, Khursheed, Uma Devi (Tun Tun) etc in it.
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Today (23 september) is the birthday of Tanuja. She had a lot innings in Hindi movies beginning from 1960 and she has not really retired from movies even today.
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“Pyaar Ka Sapna” (1969) was a Modern Pictures presentation. It was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Biswajeet, Mala Sinha, Helen, Kundan, Mridula, Johnny Walker, Durga Khote, Naina, Rajen Haksar etc in it.
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Khush rahe teri nagri beta
Posted on: September 23, 2012
“Ghar Basa Ke Dekho”(1963) was a Ratnadeep Productions movie. It was directed by Kishore Sahu. The movie had Manoj KUmar, Rajshree, Lalita Pawar, Savitri, Shyama, Leela Mishra, Randhir, Johnny Walker, Mehmood, Sudesh Kumar etc in it.
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Chanda se hoga wo pyaara
Posted on: September 22, 2012
Today (22 september) is the birth anniversary of P B Srinivas (22 september 1930). Dr P B Srinivas, as he is known now is a legendary playback singer in South Indian movies.
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