Posts Tagged ‘Mehmood’
Ilaahi tu sun le hamaali duaa
Posted on: September 29, 2012
Today (29 september) is the birth anniversary of Mehmood Ali Khan, known to movie watchers simply as Mehmood. Mehmood (29 September 1932 – 23 July 2004) made his debut in Hindi movies as a child actor in 1940s and then graduated as a grown up actor in 1950s. He became a comedian who commanded his own CSP (Comic side plot) in Hindi movies of 1950s and 1960s.
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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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Arre nazar lage na saathiyon
Posted on: August 4, 2012
The first solo song that Kishore Kumar sang in his playback career was for Dev Anand in the movie “Ziddi” (1948) under the music direction of Khemchand Prakash. Then S D Burman, his mentor used his good offices to get Kishore Kumar to give plaback for Raj Kapoor in “Pyaar” (1950). But from that time onwards, Kishore Kumar sang for himself or for Dev Anand, in case it was a Dev Anand movie with S D Burman’s music direction. I can think of one more exception during 1950s though where Kishore Kumar sang for someone other than himself or Dev Anand. It was the iconic song Din hai suhaana aaj pahli taarikh hai(Pahli taarikh) (1954) which was picturised on Raja Nene.
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Aaja ri nindiyaa
Posted on: July 23, 2012
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It is said that making people laugh is serious business. Just because some people who make others laugh does not mean that they are not capable of being serious. On the contrary, such people are capable of being serious and sensitive too.
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Main hoon ek hajjaam pyaare
Posted on: July 23, 2012
The month of July, which coincides with the Indian month of Saawan is an important month as far as Hindi movie songs are concerned. Western nations just have one day for lovers in the form of valentine days, but Hindi movies have the entire month of Saawan devoted for this purpose.
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“Sasuraal”(1961) was a Prasad Production movie. It was directed by T Prakash Rao. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, B. Saroja Devi, Shobha Khote, Leela Misra, Anwar Hussain, Randhir, Mehmood, Jayshree Gadkar, Dhumal, Misra, Ratnamala, Wasti, Lalita Pawar, Bipin Gupta etc in it.
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Pyaar ki aag mein tan badan jal gaya
Posted on: June 1, 2012
“Ziddi” (1964), not to be confused with “Ziddi”(1948) was a Pramod Films Production. It was produced and directed by Pramod Chgakravorty. The movie had Joy Mukherjee, Asha Parekh, Mehmood, Shobha Khote, Dhumal, Raj Mehra, Sulochana, Ullhas, Madan Puri, Nazima, Majnu, etc in it.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The days of comedians having a special role with well defined characters and a pivotal role in the main story of the film or parallel story were well and truly over by early 70’s. This is especially true about actors like Mehmood and Johnny Walker. They had a meaty role as well a heroine to sing songs with. One or two songs were a must for them in every film they starred. I really think there should a separate tag of category for this extinct species of comic actor. A tag for “Mehmood song” and “Johnny walker song” will not look out of place in a blog like this.
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Ye duniya ek saagar hai
Posted on: April 20, 2012
“Bandish” (1955) was a Basu Chitra Mandir Production. It was directed by Satyen Bose. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari,Mehmood, Pratima Devi,Bipin Gupta, Meena Kumari, Daisy Irani, Bhanu Banerji, N. Hussain, Sajjan, Shammi, Indira, Narbada Shanker etc in it.
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