Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
Jaa ri jaa jaa nindiyaa jaa
Posted on: May 22, 2011
“Jhaanjhar” (1953) is a movie which is lost to movie watchers because all its prints were damaged in a fire. Now all that is left of the movie is its music. And what wonderful music this movie had. The songs of this movie were great craze among music lovers those days.
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Hai tere saath meri wafaa
Posted on: May 20, 2011
Most people will agree that one Priya Rajwansh is more than enough for one movie. But Chetan Anand obviously did not think so. In “Hindustan Ki Kasam” (1973), she plays double role. In this movie, she plays two sisters separated at childhood (what an original idea ! 🙂 ). One girl ends up in India and grows up with Indian parents, whereas the other girl ends up in Pakistan and grows up with Pakistani parents.
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I am aware of two movies called “Insaaf”. Both of them were B grade movies that were released 10 years apart. “Insaaf” (1956) had Ajit, Nalini Jaiwant,Kamal Kapoor,Helen,Durga Khote etc whereas “Insaaf” (1966) had Prithviraj Kapoor,Dara Singh,Indira,Helen,Sundar,Tuntun,Azaad,Lalita Pawaar,Pravin Chaudhary etc. Both these movies had nice songs in them.
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Pyaasi hirni ban ban dhaaye
Posted on: May 18, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The 1965 movie Do Dil is a standard fare lost-and-found prince heir to the kingdom throne, palace intrigues, and struggles to get control of the kingdom. It was a time in the Hindi movies that on just seeing the name Pran in the credits of a movie, one could predict the main plot of the movie in a jiffy. Almost a similar situation in this movie. The heir to a certain kingdom goes missing as a child, and is presumed dead. Pran, a relative of some sort to the main lineage, is the most eligible person to succeed and ascend the throne. Then out of the blue, Biswajeet appears, and claims to be the long lost child and the actual heir to the throne. The storyline beyond that moves on a very predictable course.
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Mere chandaa mere nanhe
Posted on: May 16, 2011
When one watches a movie which is particularly powerful and deals with human suffering, I for one cannot bear to watch it. Forget watching such movies, I find myself unable to watch the relevant songs from such movies as well.
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Abhi to saji hai muraadon ki duniyaa
Posted on: May 14, 2011
I have discussed songs from a movie called “Zindagi” (1964) in the past. It turns out that there is another movie of the same name that was released in 1956.
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Bahaaron thhaam lo ab dil
Posted on: May 12, 2011
Hindi movie scenario was so rich during the golden era that great music composers almost grew on trees. Some of them went on to become legends, but there were many great composers that failed to land sufficient number of assignments that their talents merited.
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Out of the three movies called “Faraar”, the 1965 movie is perhaps the most obscure one. I am barely aware about the identities of the lead actors of this movie.
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“Parasmani” (1963) was a B grade Hindi movie of the kind that were typically passed over by the mainstream Hindi movie watchers. But this movie had such stunning music that people sat up and took notice. and the music may have brought substantially more number of people to the movie halls than what a typical B grade movie merited.
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Apna banaa ke chhod nahin jaanaa
Posted on: May 10, 2011
“Meena Baazaar” (1950) is a movie that had actors like Shyam,Nargis,Kuldeep Kaur, Om Prakash,Gope,Kanhaiyyalal, Sapru etc in it.
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