Posts Tagged ‘R D Burman’
Dil ki baat kahin lab pe na aa jaaye
Posted on: July 3, 2012
When I was growing up in 1970s then I had propounded a theory about the actors and movie makers of Hindi movies. My thoery was that the movie makers needed to take the movie going janta for a ride by serving them fare that they liked. In cruder terms, movie going public had to be fooled into partonising their movies. And the movie makers needed to be on their toes because it was obviously not possible to keep serving them the same fare.
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Jaan e jaan dhoondhta phir rahaa
Posted on: July 3, 2012
Watching old Hindi movies (and its songs) is a good way to look back at the past and see how things were back then. Another way of looking back at the past is by going through the publications of those days.
I recall that I was an avid reader of books in my younger days, viz 1970s. I would read each and every book, whether they were meant for kids or grown ups. In addition to being an avid reader, I was an avid collectors of children’s magazines in Hindi. The children’s magazines in Hindi those days used to be “Bal Bhatri”, “Nandan”,”Champak”,”Parag”, “Lotpot”, Chandamama”, “Indrajaal Comics” etc. You name the children’s magazines and I collected them. I not only collected them, I catalogued them systematically too. They were my prized possessions. I would not be averse to get hold of magazines not in my collection, but I would be quite reluctatnt to lend my magazines to others, because the likelihood of the borrower returning the book were remote in most cases. One needed to pester the borrower hard, sometimes by visiting his home, before one could get your book back.
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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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Bade achche lagte hain
Posted on: June 27, 2012
“Baalika Badhu” (1976) which means “Child Bride” was a remake of a Bangla movie of the same name which was made in 1950s and where Mausami Chatterji had played the title role. Mausami Chatterji, after looking at Rajni Sharma felt that Rajni Sharma looked much more immature (and thus more suitable) for the role of the child bride.
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Bechaara dil kyaa kare
Posted on: June 27, 2012
“Khushboo” (1975) was based on a Bangla story namely “Panditmoshai” written by Sharat Chandra Chatterji. The movie was a Tirupati pictures combine presentation. It was produced by Prasann Kapoor, who if I remember correctly was the brother of Jeetendra.
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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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Jaaun to kahaan jaaun
Posted on: June 27, 2012
Today (27 june) is the birth anniversary of R D Burman, who was easily the most influential music director during the time I was growing up in late 1960s and for entire 1970s. His dominance was so total that most other music directors had to change their music to sound like R D Burman. I too k it almost for granted that any song that I liked those days had to be a composition of R D Burman.
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Baabul tere baagaan di main bulbul
Posted on: May 30, 2012
A few regulars of this blog were recently wondering if Hindi movies have got a song where a daughter pays her last respects to her father who is leaving for his heavenly abode.
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Na koi umang hai na koi tarang hai
Posted on: May 18, 2012
During 1960s and 1970s, the quality of public involvement with movies and music tended to be of a higher level than what it is now. Movie magazines those days used to give reports on the progress of movies that were under production. Once the movies were released, magazines would give a summary of the story of the movies as well as their reviews. Not just that, books would be published that would give the detailed screenplay of movies.
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