Posts Tagged ‘Manoj Kumar’
It happens quite often in this blog that when a song is discussed, readers exclaim- “what ! How come this song was not discussed as yet !”. My explanation is that there have been tens of thousands of great songs in Hindi movies, and we have discussed just a small portion of that huge collection of songs, so omission of many great songs should come as no surprise. Hopefully the number of omitted songs will gradually come down as we add more and more of such songs.
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Dil tadpe tadpaaye
Posted on: December 24, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Remembering Rafi Saab on his 87th birth anniversary
It is thirty one years now that Rafi Saab left this mortal world. As per Hindu scriptures, ‘shabd’ or word / sound is eternal. And thus the voice of Rafi Saab. Probably the most mellifluous, and the most pliable voice that has ever graced the Hindi silver screen and the radio airwaves. The loss at a reasonably young and active age of 55, has been irreplaceable, as the past three decades have shown. Many contenders came and tried to take his place. But in the test of time, Rafi Saab towers above all and his voice, now emanating from electronic storage, still strums the strings of the heart, as they did decades ago.
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Mat jaiyyo naukariyaa chhod ke
Posted on: December 8, 2011
“Do Badan” (1965) is a J B Films presentation. This movie was directed by Raj Khosla. The star cast had Manoj Kumar, Asha Parekh, Pran, Dhumal, Simi Garewal, Mohan Choti, Manmohan Krishna, Wasti, , Huda Bihari, etc in it.
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“Pehchaan” (1970) is a movie that was produced and directed by Sohanlal Kanwar. The movie had Manoj Kumar, Babita, Balraj Sahni,Sunder, Sailesh Kumar, Chand Usmani, Tiwari,Sulochana, Asit Sen, Mohan Choti, Daisy Irani, Lata Bose, Madhui Apte, C. S. Dubey etc in it.
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“Yaadgaar” (1970) was a production of S Ram Films. It was directed by S Ram Sharma. Cast of the movie had names like Manoj Kumar, Nutan, Pran,Tiwari, Kamini Kaushal, Junior Mehmood, Prem Chopra, Madan Puri, Mohan Choti, Lolita Chatterjee, Asit Sen, Laxmi Chhaaya, Shammi, Manmohan etc.
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“Suhaag Sindoor”(1961) is the kind of movie which is unremarkable, does some modest business and is then forgotten with time. if such movies get remembered in future, then it is mainly because of some crazy 🙂 people who dig up movies like this in search of some nice songs in them.
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Manoj Kumar’s career as a film actor and producer was looking down and out when “Shaheed” (1965) came as a respite. And with his next venture “Upkaar” (1967), Manoj Kumar hit the jackpot and he never looked back since.
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Deewaanon se ye mat poochho
Posted on: November 5, 2011
We in this blog discuss old songs that are well known as well not so well known and even seemingly non existent obscure songs. Despite discussing so many songs, there are still some extremely well known songs that are not yet covered. In case of many such songs, I thought that I had already discussed them, but I was wrong.
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Kho gaya hai mera pyaar
Posted on: October 22, 2011
“Hariyali Aur Raasta” (1962) is a Shri Prakash Pictures Production. The movie was produced by Vijay Bhatt and directed by Shankarbhai Bhatt. The starcast of the movie included names like Mala Sinha, Manoj kumar, Jagdeep, Shashikala, Helen,Manmohan Krishna,Krishna Kumari, Surendra,Om Prakash,Samar Roy etc.
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Man ki gagariyaa mein tu chamkaa
Posted on: October 3, 2011
“Piya Milan Ki Aas” (1961) is a movie that was produced by Vijay Films. S N Tripathi was the director of this movie. The star cast of this movie had Manok Kumar, Ameeta, Sunder, Pratima Devi, Jeewan, Nalini Chonker, Daisy Irani, Indira Bansal, Polson, S. N. Tripathi etc.
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