Posts Tagged ‘Mumtaz’
“Do Dil” (1965) was an Uttam Chitra Production. It was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Biswajeet, Rajshree, Mehmood, Pran, Mumtaz, Indira, Kamal Kapoor, Asit Sen, Durga Khote etc in it.
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Pardesi piyaa ho pardesi piyaa
Posted on: July 31, 2012
Today (31st july) is the death anniversary of Rafi. This date also happens to be the birthday of Mumtaz (born on 31 july 1947 at Mumbai), the much beloved leading lady of 1960s amd 1970s.
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Indians in the past decades tended to suffer from low self esteem, because India as a country was a “developing nation”, a euphemism for a poor and underdeveloped nation. It was not uncommon for movies to reflect that. Tragedy movies did well at the box office. The hero typically would get bashed up at the hands of the villain throughout the movie.
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Today (9 july) seems to be a day of anniversaries. Manoharlal Sonik, better known as Sonik of Sonik Omi duo had left for his heavenly abode today.
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Chori chori chupke chupke
Posted on: July 1, 2012
“Aap Ki Kasam” (1974) was a Filmyug Private Limited production. It was produced and directed by J Omprakash. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz, Sanjeev Kumar, Lolita Chatterjee, Rehman, Ranjeet, Asrani, Jayashree.T., Keshto Mukherjee, Dina Pathak, A.K.Hangal, Junior Mehmood, V.Gopal, Ruby Myers(aka senior Sulochana), Ratna, Master Chickoo, Murad, Sunder, Brahm Bhardwaj, Satyen Kappu etc in it.
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Ek baat poochhoon
Posted on: June 30, 2012
I am familiar with a movie called “Kathputli”(1957). But it turns out that there was another movie of the same name in 1971 too.
“Kathputli” (1971) was a Dynamo International Production. It was produced and directed by Brij. The movie had Jeetendra, Mumtaz, Mallika, Helen, Pran, Jalal Agha, Agha, Manmohan, Leela Mishra, Ashachandra, Dilip Dutt, Fazlu, Master Bhagwan, Kumud Tripathi, Harbans Darshan, M.Arora, Praveen Paul, Rajrani, Kundan, Radheshyam, Jerry etc in it.
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Chal chale ae dil
Posted on: June 27, 2012
When I was growing up in 1970s, I had heard of Gulshan Nanda a lot. Gulshan Nanda was the most popular Hindi novelist of that time. How popular he was could be judged from the fact that several of his novels were made into popular Hindi movies with same titles. For instance, “Kati Patang” (1970) was made based on his novel of the same name.
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Ham to koi bhi nahin
Posted on: June 18, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Prakash ji has written for the second time in ‘Readers Farmaishes’ requesting for the upload of this wonderful sad song in the voice of Lata Mangeshkar. The music composition is by that underrated genius – Ganesh. Prakash ji has mentioned that the song itself is not posted anywhere on the internet. So when I read this comment from Prakash ji, repeating his request for this song, I had to pull this out from my collection, and have posted it on YouTube today.
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Dil mera tumhaari adaayen le gayin
Posted on: June 4, 2012
“Gauri”(1968) was a Shivaji Films Production. The movie was directed by A Bhimsingh. The starcast of the movie had names like Sunil Dutt, Nutan, Sanjeev Kumar, Mumtaz, Rajendra Nath, Laxmi Chhaya, Urmila Bhatt, Leela Mishra, Ashim Kumar, Shivraj, Om Prakash etc in it.
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