Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
“Baadal” (1951) was a Verma Films presentation. The movie was directed by Amiya Chakraborty. Starcast of the movie had names like Premnath, Madhubala, Purnima, Hiralal, Randhir, S. Nazir, Agha etc.
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Jaane na haaye ye duniya
Posted on: May 22, 2012
“Buzdil” (1951) was a Filmarts presentation. It was directed by Shahid Lateef. The starcast of the movie had Premnath, Nimmi, Cuckoo, Kishore Sahu, Shahgul, Kanhaiyalal, Sunalini Devi etc in it.
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Bhari mehfil hai ye afsaana nahin
Posted on: May 22, 2012
Most mujra songs in Hindi movies are rather “light” in nature in the sense that the clients as well as the mujra performers seem to be at ease with themselves. In reality, performing mujra as well as going to kotha to watch these performances was regarded as disreputable acts.
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“Raajhath” (1956) was a Minerva Movietone Presentation. It was directed by Sohrab Modi. The movie had Sohrab Modi, Madhubala, Pradeep Kumar, Ulhas etc in it.
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Ae dil dukhda kise sunaayen
Posted on: May 22, 2012
“Naaz” (1954) is by now an obscure movie. It was an S K films production. It was produced and directed by S K Oza. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaiwant, Murad, Arif, Tiwari, Veena, Nawab, S. Nazir, Amar, K. Sabir etc in it.
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Roothe roothe piyaa manaaun kaise
Posted on: May 21, 2012
I have mentioned it in my previous post that I am at present visually hamstrung. I am unable to see what I am typing since I have forgotten my glasses at home. There are terms like touch typing, typing with two fingers etc, and I suppose I can add another term, viz typing by guesswork as well. I can barely see the letters on the keyboard but I am an experienced keyboard warrior and so my fingers tend to move to the correct keys almost like second nature. So I hope that I am typing correctly without too many typos.
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Intezaar ka aalam
Posted on: May 20, 2012
“Shera Daaku” (1966) was a B grade movie. It was produced by Laxmichitra Productions and directed by Radhakant. The movie had Randhawa, Sheikh Mukhtar, Nishi, Amar, Rajen Kapoor, Sunder etc in it.
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“Chandramukhi” (1960) was a Kanti Production movie. It was directed by R Thakur. This B grade movie had Manhar Desai, Kavita, B. M. Vyas, Maruti etc in it.
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Mera padhhne mein nahin laage dil
Posted on: May 18, 2012
Most Hindi movies (and Indian movies of other languages) are nealy three hours long. Movies of other countries are shorter in duration in comparison.
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Na koi umang hai na koi tarang hai
Posted on: May 18, 2012
During 1960s and 1970s, the quality of public involvement with movies and music tended to be of a higher level than what it is now. Movie magazines those days used to give reports on the progress of movies that were under production. Once the movies were released, magazines would give a summary of the story of the movies as well as their reviews. Not just that, books would be published that would give the detailed screenplay of movies.
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