Posts Tagged ‘R D Burman’
Saawan ka maheena aa gayaa
Posted on: August 23, 2012
“Nehle Pe Dehla” (1976) was an Ajanta Arts production. It was produced by Sunil Dutt and directed by Raj Khosla. The movie saw the “Padosan” (1968) lead pair of Sunil Dutt and Saira Bano paired up once again in this movie. The movie also had Vinod Khanna, Bindu, Ramayan Tiwari, Dev Kumar, Ranjeet, Kamini Kaushal, Anwar Hussain, Trilok Kapoor, Bharat Bhooshan, ShivKumar, Romeo, Keshav Rana, Vikas Anand, Prem Kumar, Hercules, Daljit Rao, Pehlwan, Vivek, Sonu, Dhanraj, Bittu, Jilani, Ramesh Aejaz, Premnath, Om Prakash, Bhushan Tiwari etc in it.
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Today (23 august) is the birthday of Saira Bano. Saira Bano made her debut in 1960s and when one thinks about it, her career was mainly confined to the decade of 1960s, with a few sporadic appearances in 1970s.
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Do naina aur ek kahaani
Posted on: August 22, 2012
“Masoom” (1982) was inspired from “Man, Woman and Child written” by Erich Segal. And it must be said that the tale was very well adapted by Gulzar who wrote the screenplay and directed with great sensitivity and understanding by Shekhar Kapoor. There were few people in the audience who remained unmoved by the plight of eight year old Rahul (played by Jugal Hansraj), a result of one night affair between an unwed Bhawna (played by Supriya Pathak) and a happily married DK (Naseeruddin Shah) at Nainital at a time when DK’s wife Indu (Shabana Azmi) is expecting their first child. DK goes back home and has a happy family life with two daughters Pinky (Urmila Matondkar) and Minni (Aradhana).
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O jhumke waali ho
Posted on: August 22, 2012
We did not have any anniversaries of movie personalities for the last one day. That state of affair cannot continue of course. 🙂 With so many movies and so many songs over the last eight decades featuring thousands of artists, a few annivesaries are bound to be there on most of the days of the year.
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Kabhi kabhi sapna lagta hai
Posted on: August 21, 2012
“Ratnadeep” (1979) was produced by Jagannath and Kannan and it was directed by Basu Bhattachajee Chatterji. The movie had Hema Malini , Girish Karnad, Dheeraj Kumar, A K Hangal, Sulochana Latkar, Nadita Thakur, Prema Narayan, Pinchoo Kapoor etc in it.
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Mere angna aaye re
Posted on: August 19, 2012
Today (19 august) is Utpal Dutt’s death anniversary. Utpal Dutt was typically known to play the role of an idiosyncratic oldie. During early 1980s, he got somewhat typed cast as a lecherous old man eyeing women greedily. He played such roles in movies like “Naram Garam” (1981) and “Shaukeen” (1982). In “Shaukeen”, he had company of like minded oldtimers viz Ashok Kumar and A K Hangal, but he was on his own in “Naram Garam” (1981).
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On the occasion of Gulzar’s birthday today (18 august), we are discussing a few songs penned by him. He has written so many great songs in Hindi movies that we are spoiled for choice. Gulzar is one of those lyricists who has not yet reached his individual century of songs in the blog. Hopefully he will reach there in a few weeks time.
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Rimjhim rimjhim rumjhum rumjhum
Posted on: August 16, 2012
While I was busy checking up the details of Saif ali Khan whose birthday falls today(16 august), I came across the information that today is the birthday of Manisha Koirala too. I as well as the regular contributors had missed out on her birthday. It turns out that she was born on 16 july 1970, exactly on the same day and year that Saif Ali Khan was born. Could they be identical twins separated at birth, Hindi movie istyle ? 🙂 Not likely, because such separation at birth happens only in non royal families (viz. Pran and Nirupa Roy, for instance:) ). Here both Saif Ali Khan and Manisha Koirala happened to be born in royal families, silver spoon and all. 🙂
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Roothh na jaana tumse kahoon to
Posted on: August 12, 2012
“1942 A Love Story” (1993) was a movie which was produced by Vidu Vinod Chopra and directed by Vidu Vinod Chopra. The movie, despite its publicity, was no great shakes.
But the music of this movie was quite a revelation. This movie was released a few months after the death of R D Burman. When music lovers heard the music of this movie, they sat up and took notice. Some reviwers even went as far as to state that this was the music ever composed by R D Burman ! I am not one to indulge in such odious comparisons, but I was one of those music lovers who found the music of the movie quite divine. When I went on to watch the movie, I found the movie quite a let down. The movie was supposed to be a period movie on 1942 but all the characters dressed, looked and behaved like people of 1990s.
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