Posts Tagged ‘Laxmikant Pyarelal’
Main wohi wohi baat
Posted on: November 6, 2012
Today (6 november) is the 27th death anniversary of Sanjeev Kumar. When most of his contemporary actors were content to get typedcast in certain kinds of roles and would spend their entire career playing the same kinds of role, Sanjeev Kumar would play just about any kind of character that he was offered. While signing up movies, he did not worry about the impact of that role on his star value. To worry about one’s stardom was for lesser actors, not for Sanjeev Kumar , who could play roles that most heroes would summarily reject. Sanjeev Kumar played roles of deaf and dumb (Koshish), pimp (Manoranjan), Old man (in several movies), mad (Khilona) etc. His star value remained undiminished, no matter what kind of roles he played in his movies.
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Jaani O Jaani
Posted on: November 4, 2012
“Raja Jani”(1972) was produced by Madan Mohla and directed by Mohan Segal. The movie had Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Nadira, Premnath, Johny Walker, Helen, Sajjan, Hiralal, Manmohan, C. S. Dubey, Bhushan Tiwari, Bindya, Durga Khote, Prem Chopra etc in it.
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“Aakraman” (1975) was a title that came as a surprise to me. Those were the days when Hindi movies did not have titles in Textbook Hindi. “Aakraman” is Hindi/ Sanskrit for “Attack”. The tendency for movie makers those days was the use a word like “Hamla” instead of “Aakraman”, even though it was a word of normal usage in Hindi textbooks. That way one needs to give some credit to the makers of this movie that he used a Hindi title for a Hindi movie.
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“Jal Bin Machhli Nritya Bin Bijli” (1971) was a V Shantaram Production movie. It was produced and directed by V Shantaram. The movie had Ravindra, Vasant Parekh, Minal, Abhijeet, Vastala Deshmukh, Iftekhar, Sandhya, Dina Gandhi, Raja Paranjpe, Nanda, Birbal, Praveen Kumar, Sushant Ray etc in it.
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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A year before she arrived at the zenith of playback singing with Aayega aane waala in Mahal (1949), a still-teenage Lataji vocalized her first ghazal – the mind-blowing Dil-e-naashaad ko jeene ki hasrat ho gayee tumse under the baton of Hansraj Bahl in Chunariya (1948). Her superb rendition of this none-too-easy a number with expression, enunciation and mastery on its many murkis in all octaves is just breath-taking.
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Aaj dil pe koi zor chalta nahin
Posted on: October 25, 2012
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This musical bandwagon continues to roll on unabated (touchwood !) and we continue to pass milestones at regular intervals.
Century of songs is the most basic and common kind of milestone for this song. In the earlier days of the blog, we just counted the number of songs posted in the day and every 100th song was a cause for celebration.
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Today (16 october) is the 64th birthday of Hema Malini. She ruled the roost in 1970s. So much so that she was described as dream girl by the media. To capitalise on this sobriquet, Pramod Chakraborty actually made a movie called “Dream Girl” (1977) signing up Hema Malini and Dharmendra.
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While talking of a movie called “Dillagi”, The only movie of this name that I was aware of during my teenage days was “Dillagi” (1978), which was a Basu Chatterjee directed romantic comedy movie starring Dharmendra and Hema Malini.
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Arrey re re sambhaalo
Posted on: October 7, 2012
“Khuda Kasam” (1981) was a Kala Bhatri production. It was directed by Lekh Tandan. The movie had Vinod Khanna, Tina Munim, Ajit, Pran, Nazneen, Chandrashekhar, Zaahira, Kamini Kaushal, Madan Puri, Jalal Agha,Shakti Kapoor, Pinchoo Kapoor, Ram Mohan, C S dubey etc in it.
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