Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
Man veena madhur boley
Posted on: July 29, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Before she burst on to the Bollywood scene with C.I.D. (1956) and Pyaasa (1957), Padma Bhushan Waheeda Rehman starred in two movies each in Telugu and Tamil including, as the second heroine, in the D. Yoganand directed Anjali Devi-A. Nageswara Rao starrer 1955 Telugu production Jayasimha. It was later dubbed in Hindi by P. Ramesh Naidu and released as Jai Singh in 1959.
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Jab se tujhe jaan gayee
Posted on: July 28, 2012
“Bluffmaster” (1963) was produced by Subhash Desai and directed by Manmohan Desai. It had Shammi Kapoor, Saira Bano, Lalita Pawar, Niranjan Sharma, Pran, Mohan Choti, Laxmi Chhaya, TunTun, Rashid Khan, Shyam Lal, Charlie Walker, Jugal Kishore, Anand Joshi, Santhosh Kumar etc in it.
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People in most fields are always on the look out for the holy grail of their field. In case of Hindi movie making, it is a formula that would succeed at the box office. And interestingly, this success formula keeps changing from time to time. Moreover, not every movie following the same formula succeeds at the box office.
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Gagan ke chanda na poochh hamse
Posted on: July 24, 2012
The month of July is a bonanza as far as anniversaries of film personalities are concerned. Today (24 july) is the birthday of Manoj Kumar.
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“Rani Roopmati” (1959) was a Ravikala Chitra Production. It was produced and directed by S N Tripathi. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Nirupa Roy, Nalini Chonker, Ullhas, B. M. Vyas, Babu Raje, Bharat Bhushan, Amarnath etc in it.
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Aaja ri nindiyaa
Posted on: July 23, 2012
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It is said that making people laugh is serious business. Just because some people who make others laugh does not mean that they are not capable of being serious. On the contrary, such people are capable of being serious and sensitive too.
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“Kaarwaan” (1956) was a B grade movie which was a Shakkar Production presentation. It was directed by Rafiq Rizvi. Mahipal, Shakila, Hiralal, Yashodhara Katju etc were the lead actors in this movie.
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Muhabbat ke janaaze par
Posted on: July 23, 2012
“Daaku Ki Ladki” (1954) was a Harish Production movie. It was produced and directed by Harish. The movie had Geeta Bali, Sheikh Mukhtar, Arjun, Mukri, Deepa, Shivraj, Cuckoo, Sankata Prasad etc in it.
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Thaane kaajalyon banaalyoon
Posted on: July 22, 2012
“Veer Durgadas” (1960) was a historical movie based on the life of Veer Durgadas Rathode , a respected historical figure of Rajasthan. The movie was a Lak Bharati Chitra production. It was directed by Ramchandra Thakur. The movie had Nirupa Roy, Manhar Desai, Jairaj, P.Kailash, RajKumar, S.N.Tripathi, Babu Raje, Prem Sagar, Poonam, Champak lala, Narbada Shankar, Ajit, B.M.Vyas, Bagla,Kumari Chand, Suryakant Shukla, Sukumar,Mahendra, Sri Bhagwan, Ramlal Pehlwaan, Nazir Kashmiri, Hamid, Raajwade, Vinay Mukaale, Bhimjee Bhai, Damodar etc in it.
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Indians in the past decades tended to suffer from low self esteem, because India as a country was a “developing nation”, a euphemism for a poor and underdeveloped nation. It was not uncommon for movies to reflect that. Tragedy movies did well at the box office. The hero typically would get bashed up at the hands of the villain throughout the movie.
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