Posts Tagged ‘Madan Mohan’
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Laila Majnu” was the debut film for Ranjeeta. For a number of year after I saw “Ankhiyon ke jharoke se” she was my favorite. I made it a point to see all her films, even those obscure movies with Mithun Chakravarty and music by Bappi Lahiri. I saw her films right upto “Rajput” (1981). Than she sort of dropped out of scene. There may have been a few more films, but I dont know. I dont remember how, but ” Ankhiyon ke jharoke se” I might have seen on T. V. only. ‘Rajput’ we had all seen in the theatre. That was a time when Amitabh Bachchan was in full flow. We would see all his films, not as soon as they released, but it was usually after the school exams were over and on the day of the last paper or the weekend. My father would book the tickets in advance. “Do aur Do paanch” onwards all films of Amitabh Bachhan were a must watch for all of us. They usually had a long run a theatre, unlike what happens now. If you want to see a movie in the theatre you have to do it within a few weeks. If dont manage to, then it will be gone from all the nearby movie halls.
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Aankhon ko meri tum apne
Posted on: April 19, 2012
“Ladka Ladki”(1966) was a Bright Films Production. It was directed by Som Haksar. This movie had Kishore Kumar, Mumtaz, Sujit Kumar, Laxmi Chhaya, I.S.Johar, Bhagwan, Raj Mehra, Tuntun, Randhir, Leela Misra,Ravikant, Johnny Whisky, Kesri, Krishna Duggal, Gulshan Banwra, Jagadish Bhalla, Aasi, Jerry, Abubakar, Nazir Kashmiri, ShamLaal, DeenDayal etc in it.
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Kismat jo pilaaye hamko
Posted on: April 14, 2012
“Ladka Ladki” (1966) was a Bright Films Production. It was directed by Som Haksar. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Mumtaz, Sujit Kumar, Laxmi Chhaya, I.S.Johar, Bhagwan,Raj Mehra, Tuntun, Randhir, Leela Misra, Ravikant, Johnny Whisky, Kesri, Krishna Duggal, Gulshan Baawra, Jagadish Bhalla, Aasi, Jerry, Abubakar, Nazir Kashmiri, Sham Laal, Deen Dayaal etc.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Talking about romantic pairing in Hindi films, Nanda – Shashi Kapoor pairing is probably the most attractive pair in the 60s. It is interesting to note their career graphs. Both of them started off in the films as child artists. Nanda’s father, Master Vinayak, passed away when she was just 8 years old. She was obliged to start working in films as a child artist, Baby Nanda, due to financial difficulties at home. On the other hand, as a child, Shashi was part of the already famous Kapoor clan, and the youngest son of Prithviraj Kapoor. And with all his family seniors in the cine business, it was only natural that followed their footsteps. He too appeared in many films as a child artist.
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Thhoda sa aitbaar keejiye
Posted on: April 6, 2012
“Chowkidaar” (1974) did not create any impression at the box office when it was released. And it meant that yet another movie with Madan Mohan’s compositions flopped and the songs of this movie remained unheard and unwatched by moviegoers.
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Rehne do chanda badli mein
Posted on: April 5, 2012
“Chowkidaar”(1974) was produced by Gopal Ralhan and directed by Shyam Ralhan. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Yogita Bali, Vinod Khanna, Jeevan, Asit Sen, Jaishree T., Zebunissa, Om Prakash etc in it.
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Here is yet another song of the genre “how come this song was not posted earlier !”. And all along, I was under the impression that this song was discussed long back. I was wrong in my assumption, of course.
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Sochne ko laakh baaten soche insaan
Posted on: April 4, 2012
Philosophical songs is a genre of songs that are calming to the nerves and they help us see things in perspective and make us realise that we are mere specks in the grand scheme of things and so one should not entertain delusions of grandeur about oneself. We are mere puppets and someone far more omnipotent is running the show.
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Pyaar kyaa hota hai
Posted on: April 2, 2012
“Ek Kali Muskaayi”(1968) was a Panchdeep Chitra Production. The movie was directed by Vasant Joglekar. This movie was meant to introduce the director’s daughter, viz. Meera Joglekar as a lead actress in Hindi movies. Here she was cast opposite Joy Mukherjee. Other actors in the cast included Ashok Kumar, Mehmood, Om prakash, Nirupa Roy,
Lalita Pawaar, Nana Palsikar, Sunder, Neelam, Malika etc.
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