Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
“Deedaar” (1951) was a Filmkaar Production. It was directed by Nitin Bose. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nimmi, Nargis, Dilip Kumar, Yakub, Tabassum etc in it.
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Jeene waale muskuraa ke jee
Posted on: February 21, 2012
“Chhote Nawaab”(1961) is a movie which was Mehmood’s home production. Produced under the banner of Mumtaz Films, this movie was produced by Usman Ali and directed by S A Akbar. Starcast of the movie included names like Mehmood, Ameeta, Minoo Mumtaz, Helen, Anwar Hussain,Raj Kishore, Raj Dutt, A.R.Bengali, Munshi Munaqqa, Maqbool, Yusuf, Abdul, Mono, Sevanand, Bela Bose, Aruna, Harikishan, Ebrahim, Khursheed Bawra, Pappoo, Altaf, Brij Sharma, S.N.Bannerjee, Nazir Hussain, Achala Sachdev, Kumar etc.
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Ye tanhaayi haay re haay re
Posted on: February 21, 2012
Nutan (DOB-4 june 1936 – DOD-21 february 1991) left for heavenly abode this day 20 years ago. Twenty years ago ! How time flies !
She belonged to one of the first Hindi movie dynasties. Her mother(Shobhana Samarth) was a noted actress in Hindi movies, as was her sister (Tanuja). With Tanuja’s marriage to Shomu Mukherji, this family married into another big Hindi movie dynasty that included Joy Mukherji, Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar etc. Later on, her son, Mohnish Bahal and her neice Kajol would also act in Hindi movies , with Kajol marrying Ajay Devgan, another well known actor.
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Tu mere pyaar ka phool hai
Posted on: February 20, 2012
Most Hindi movies deal with safe topics because dealing with “unsafe” topics are fraught with dangers. and when one’s own career may be at stake then obviously few movie makers can be expected to venture into potentially risky topics.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
‘Hum hain raahi pyaar ke’ – the phrase reminds me of an iconic song “ham hain raah pyaar ke ham se kuchh naa boliye” from the film NAU DO GYAARAH (1957) and the Amir Khan-Juhi Chawala starrer film HUM HAIN RAAHI PYAAR KE (1993). I was not aware of the fact that there was one more film by the same name until I came across an audio clip of a beautiful song from that film.
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“Naya Ghar” (1953) was a Kashyap Productions movie. It was produced and directed by D D Kashyap. Starcast of this movie included names e.g. Shekhar, Geeta Bali, Jagdev, Leela Chitnis, Ratan Kumar, Begum Para, Shailendra etc.
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“Milaap” (1955) was the debut movie of N Datta as a full feledged music director. This movie has by and large been forgotten by now alongwirh its music. But in the process of digging up the songs of this movie, we are coming up with one gem after another.
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Nigaahon mein tum ho
Posted on: February 18, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movies and a regular contributor to this blog.
JAADOO NAGARI (1961) as the name suggests, was a fantasy film with Ranjan and Vijaya Choudhary as lead actors. Other cast included Tiwari, Helen and Majnu. The film was produced under the banner of Mukul pictures and directed by Radhakant who had directed some of Dara Singh films such as Rustam-e-Rome (1964), Boxer (1965), Insaaf (1966) and Toofaan (1969).
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Mera bichhdaa yaar milaa de
Posted on: February 18, 2012
“Sohni Mahiwal” (1958) was a Chaudhary Arts Production movie and it was directed by Raja Nawathe. Starcast of the movie included names like Bharat Bhushan, Nimmi, Kumar, Achla Sachdev, Mukri, Lotan, Chand Burque, Om Prakash etc.
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