Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
I was not aware about the existence of this movie called “Paayal” (1957). Now I know that it is a movie starring Sunil Dutt and Padmini.
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When I was a kid growing up in Eastern part of India, Durga Puja used to be the biggest festival of the year there, lasting four days. And every evening, the Durga Puja organisers would organise a cultural programme where the locals were encouraged to participate.
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We are all familar with the names of music directors whose names figure in the credits of a movie. Sometimes, when one looks closely, one may be able to have a glimpse of the Assistant music director. When I look at the credits of a Hindi movie, I especially look for the screen showing the list of assistants and sometimes I manage to read the name.
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I am not much clued in on the movie “House No. 44” (1955). This movie had Dev Anand and Kalpana Kartik in lead roles.
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Apni nazar se door wo
Posted on: September 10, 2010
“Bazaar” (1949) was a movie with Shyam, Nigar Sultana, Gope, Yaqoob, Kukku etc in it. This movie may have been forgotten by now, but this movie has some nice songs in it.
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Kahin naa jaa aaj kahin mat jaa
Posted on: September 9, 2010
I had begun to lose track of Hindi movie music by 1980s. By that time, Bappi Lahiri with his chaalu brand of songs had displaced the usual kind of music and the golden era of Hindi movie music was all but over. In late 1960s, R D Burman kind of music marginalised the older generation of music directors. Here , in late 1970, we find Bappi Lahiri brand of music marginalising the likes of R D Burman !
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“Free Love” (1974) was not a sleazy movie, despite its title. It was a C grade movie though and it had Kiran Kumar and Yogita Bali in lead roles. The movie sank without trace. I for one never knew in 1974 that a movie of this name was doing the rounds in movie halls. In my town this movie was never released.
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“Anjaan” (1956) is a movie starring Pradeep Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala with Premnath, Jeewan, Johny Walker, Minu Mumtaz,Helen,Raj Mehra,Mubarak etc in it.
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This post is written by Santosh Ojha, a relatively new visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Bollywood movie music
The charm of Hindi films for me began from the time I began watching them avidly. The charm lay in those unique features of the Hindi film; multi-starrer, great fight scenes, action-packed, zingy songs and scintillating dialogues. If this was coupled with a lost-and-found brother/friend plot, with messages on religious harmony, and with good triumphing over evil, what more could a teenager want!
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Meri veena tum bin roye
Posted on: September 7, 2010
“Dekh Kabira Roya” (1957) was a movie made with lesser actors, and I have no idea how the movie fared at the box office, but today this movie is regarded as a musical blockbuster.
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