Posts Tagged ‘Laxmikant Pyarelal’
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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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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