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“Pinjre Ke Panchhi” (1966) is a movie which is a Shobha Chitra Production. M C Ananthraj was the producer and this movie was directed by Salil Chaudhary. The star cast of this movie included names like Meena Kumari, Baljraj Sahni, Mehmood, Abhi Bhattacharya,Shaukat Azmi, Asit Sen, Keshto Mukherjee, Ifthekar, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Yunus Parwez, Poonam etc.
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Dev Anand, who left for heavenly abode yesterday (3th december 2011) in London, was a legend among legends in the annals of Indian movie industry. He started his career in 1940s as an actor and quickly went on to become one of the big three heroes of 1950s, other two being Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar. Dev Anand typically played suave, urban, dashing and stylish characters in his movies. He got his first break in Prabhat theatre’s “Hum Ek Hain” (1946). He got his big break in “Ziddi” (1948) and that enabled him to get a foothold in the industry. Soon, he set up his own production house, viz Navketan too.
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“Pinjre Ke Panchhi”(1966), despite being a movie of reasonably recent vintage (by the standards of this blog), is a movie that is by and large forgotten. This movie was a Shobhana Pictures presentation and it was directed by Salil Chaudhary. The movie had Mehmood, Balraj Sahni, Meena Kumari, Abhi Bhattacharya, Asit Sen, Keshto Mukherjee, Poonam, Viswas Kunte, R. Jhunjhunwala, Harin Chattopadhyaya etc in it.
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“Gomti Ke Kinaare” (1972), despite being a recent movie by the standards of this blog is a forgotten movie. this movie was produced and directed by Saawan Kumar Tak, who would later on specialise in making movies on the themes of Saajan and Sautan.
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Different people may have different ways of judging movies. I read an old joke in this connection some three decades ago. A Pathan from Afghanistan came to India and looked at a poster of a movie . He was very impressed with the title of the poster and he went to watch that movie. after THE END, he came out very frustrated and disappointed. He was asked the reason for his disappointment. “The poster promised that the movie had Chiraag Khan and Roshni Khan in it. I watched the entire movie , but I could not find either of the Khans in this movie.” The Pathan explained.
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“Ghazal” (1964) was a Natraj Productions movie and it was directed by Ved Mohan. This movie had Sunil Dutt, Meena Kumari,Pratima Devi,Nazima, Prithviraj, Rajendranath, Raj Mehra, Mohsin Abdulla, Rehman, Lotan etc in it.
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Sajjad Hussain songs are a category of song that I regard as gold dust, especially those songs that are not yet discussed. As it is, Sajjad Hussain composed around one hundred songs in his career. This blog has covered as many as 62 of them, including some rare songs that were unearthed on internet for the first time.
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