Posts Tagged ‘Laxmikant Pyarelal’
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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I was at my movie watching “best” in 1980, and movies of that vintage are recent movies by the standards of this blog. Still I had never heard of this movie called “Zaalim” (1980) till now. When one looks at the starcast of this movie, one finds the name of Vinod Khanna as the hero who looked the most likely candidate to challenge Amitabh Bachchan as the leading male actor of those days, but unlike Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna lacked peace of mind and was searching for it in the Ashram of Bhagwan Rajneesh, later known as Osho. As a result, Vinod Khanna was distracted and was unable to devote himself fully to his filmy career. That told on the box office performances of his movies of those days.
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Mujhe bhool jaana agar ho sakey
Posted on: October 5, 2012
“Taqdeer” (1967) was a nice movie which was produced by Rajshree Productions and directed by A Salaam. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Shalini, Kamal Kapoor, Farida Jalal, Kajal, Sushil, Jalal Agha, Ajay, Dinesh, Dilip Dutt, Champakala, Subhash Ghai etc in it.
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Today (3 october) is the birthday of director J P Dutta (3 october 1949). His father O P Dutta too was a director during his time. J P Dutta is married to Bindiya Goswami, a well known actress of 1970s.
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Pyaar ki nanhi maina chehke
Posted on: October 1, 2012
“Waapas” (1969) was a S S Chitra Mandir Presentation. It was directed by Satyen Bose. The movie had Ajay, Satyajit, Kishwar, Azra, Leela Mishra, Shekhar Purohit, Parveen Paul, Jankidas, Chandrima Bhaduri, Alka, Kumud Tripathi etc in it.
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This song “Ganga Mein dooba na Jamuna mein dooba” was an extremely popular song of its time, viz 1970s. I was one of those who lived listening to this song and humming it too, all the while remaining totally oblivious to the details of this song. With time, this song ran its course and was forgotten with time.
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“Bidaai” (1974) was produced and directed by L V Prasad. The movie had Jeetendra, Leena Chandavarkar, Madan Puri, A. K. Hangal, Satyen Kappu, Anwar Hussain, Birbal, Jaishree T, Kanan Kaushal, Durga Khote, Dinesh Hingoo, Asrani, Jagdeep etc in it.
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Today (27 september) is the 80th birthday of Yashraj Chopra, a veteran producer and director of Hindi movies. He began his career as a director in “Dhool Ka Phool” (1959) which was produced by B R Chopra, his elder brother. He directed five movies under the banner of “B R Chopra productions”. All of them were hit movies. He won Filmfare best director award for one of these movies, viz. “Waqt” (1965). In all he won Four Filmfare awards for best direction and four Filmfare awards for best movies in his career.
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Parda hata de mukhda dikha de
Posted on: September 26, 2012
In 1960s, movies involving Mehmood had CSP (comic side plot) which often ran nearly as long as the main plot and that was supposed to be funny. In most of these CSPs, Shubha Khote would play Mehmood’s love interest and Dhumal would be her father.
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Kaise naache Mayuri
Posted on: September 21, 2012
“Naache Mayuri”(1986)” was a Hindi remake of the Telugu “Mayuri”(1984). These movies were based on the real life story of Sudha Chandran. Sudha Chandran, a dancing enthusiast, had lost one leg in an accident. But she braved all odds and used artifical limb (prosthetic ‘Jaipur foot’) and continued to pursue her first love viz. dancing and became a leading dancer. She was invited to perform in India as well as abroad. Her fame spread and she got offers to work in movies. Telugu movie “Mayuri” (1984) was made on her own life. This movie became a big success at the box office. It was subsequently dubbed into Malayalam and Telugu with the same title. Later on, this movie was remade into Hindi as “Naache Mayuri” (1986).
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