Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
Koyal kyun gaaye
Posted on: October 12, 2011
Here is a song that I thought had already been discussed in this blog but I was wrong.
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“Wafa” (1950) is a Goodluck pictures production. It is directed by J P Advani and its star cast consists of Karan Dewan, Gope, Yakub, Shyam, Nimmi, I. S. Johar, Bipin Gupta etc.
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Maine kahaa phoolon se
Posted on: October 9, 2011
Hrishikesh Mukherjee had watched a Japanese movie, which depicts a man who has only a few days to live but instead of being melancholic, he lives his life cheerfully and spreads happiness all around him. Hrishikesh Mukherjee liked that movie so much that he adpated the movie into Hindi and created “Anand” (1970). Not content with that, he re adapted the same adaptation to change the gender of the main character and he thus came up with “Mili” (1975). Both these movies were critically well acclaimed and well received by the ordinary movie watchers as well.
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Tumhaare bin guzaare hain kai din
Posted on: October 8, 2011
“Aatmaram” (1979) is a recent movie bty the standards of this blog, but this movie is nearly as obscure as many movies of much older vintage. The reasons are not far to seek. The movie was a smaller budget movie with actors like Shatrughan Sinha, Vidya Sinha,Bindiya Goswami,Amjad Khan etc in it. The movie was directed by Sohanlal Kanwar and the movie sank without a trace.
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I am aware of a 1954 movie called “Mastaana” (1954). Now, thanks to the lyrics of a song, which were sent to be by Prakashchnadra, I am now become aware of another movie of the same name which was released in 1970.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Besides being an exceptional production in terms of characterizations and performances, the epic Mughal-e-Azam (1960) created by K Asif, was a musical bonanza too. Of the twelve brilliant creations by Naushad Saab and Shakeel Badayuni, eight are already posted on this blog. Here is the ninth musical offering from this film – a wonderful qawwaali in the tradition of baitbaazi, by Shamshad Begum and Lata Mangeshkar. The setting of this qawwaali is as follows.
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“Naaz” (1954) is a movie produced by S K Films. The director of this movie was S K Ojha. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaywant, Murad, Arif, Tiwari, Veena, Nawab, S. Nazir, Amar, K. Sabir etc in it.
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“Sunahre Qadam” (1966) is a B grade movie which was produced by Saraswati Kala Mandir and directed by Satish Nigam. this movie had Shashikala, Agha, Sabita Chatterjee, Randhir, Rehman etc in it. With such star cast, the movie deservedly had little takers.
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“Pyaar Ki Baaten” (1951), which was a Nargis Arts production movie was directed by Akhtar Hussain. This movie, as the name of the production house suggests, was Nargis’ home production. Nargis was the female lead in this movie.
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