Posts Tagged ‘Rajinder Krishan’
Boondaniyaan barsan laagi re
Posted on: December 17, 2012
“Jailor” (1958) was a Minerva Movietone pictures production. It was directed by Sohrab Modi. The movie had Sohrab Modi, Geeta Bali, Kamini Kaushal, Pratima Devi, Abhi Bhattacharya, Nana Palsikar, Daisy Irani, Raj Kumar, E. Tarapore etc in it.
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“Patanga” (1949) was an out and out musical blockbuster. It was a Varma Films Production. It was directed by H S Rawail. The movie had Shyam, Nigar Sultana, Cuckoo,Yakub, Gope, Purnima, Randhir, Mohana, Ramesh Sinha, Shyama, Raj Mehra etc in it.
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Duniya paagalon ka baazaar
Posted on: December 13, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the early era of the Talkie, most films were based on Mythology, History or Fantasy stories. As the years went by,the films were made on social themes and still later the films were produced on the stories written in their ‘story departments’ weaving mystery, humour, misfortune and heroics imaginatively.
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Husn jab jab ishq se takra gaya
Posted on: December 12, 2012
“Neend Hamaari Khwaab Tumhaare”(1966) was a Movie Monuments production. It was produced by Hans Chaudhary and directed by Shiv Sahni. The movie had Nanda, Shashi Kapoor, Rajendra Nath, Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Manorama, Omprakash, Shashikala, Bela Bose, Manmohan, Anwar Hussain, Vishwa Mehra, Madhumati, Lotan etc in it.
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“Bandi” (1957) was a Shree Raj pictures production. It was directed by Satyen Bose. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Bina Rai, Kishore Kumar, Anoop Kumar, Nanda, Shyama, Kanhaiyalal, Kammo, Banerjee, Misra, Krishnakant etc in it.
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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Filmistan’s Durgesh Nandini (1956) was an adaptation of the first ever Bengali novel Durgeshnondini. Published in 1865, it was written by none other than Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, immortalized as the composer of India’s national songVande Mataram.
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Ek bade baap ki beti ko
Posted on: December 9, 2012
“Bandi” (1957) was a Shree Raj pictures production. It was directed by Satyen Bose. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Bina Rai, Kishore Kumar, Anoop Kumar, Nanda, Shyama, Kanhaiyalal, Kammo, Banerjee, Misra, Krishnakant etc in it.
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“Anarkali” (1953) was a Filmistan production movie. It was directed by Nandlal Jaswantlal. Pradeep KUmar and Bina Rai played the lead roles in this movie. Mubarak, Kuldip Kaur, Sulochana, S. L. Puri, Manmohan Krishna, Noorjahan etc were the other actors in this movie.
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Hari Om kathha aarambh hoti hai
Posted on: December 1, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Can you guess how many actors and actresses must have worked in ALL Hindi films from 1931 to 2000 ?
I asked this question to my friend and he hazarded a figure of 2000. I put the number at around 3000 to 4000, myself.
What is your Guess ?
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Meri jhilmil jhilmil bindiya
Posted on: November 27, 2012
“Mama Bhanja” (1977), not to be confused with Manmohan Desai directed “Chacha Bhatija” (1977), was directed by Naresh Kumar. The movie had real life Chacha bhatija (Shammi Kapoor and Randhir Kapoor ) playing Mama and Bhanja respectively. The movie also had Parveen Babi, Asha Sachdev, Nadira, Jagdish Raj, Lalita Pawar, Ram Mohan etc in it.
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