Posts Tagged ‘Roshan’
Khanke to khanke kyun khanke
Posted on: August 19, 2011
I may think that I know a lot about old Hindi movies and their songs, but I often find myself humbled as I find my knowledge to be quite insignificant and inadequate vis a vis the knowledge possessed by the visitors of this blog. Thanks to the invaluable informations provided by the readers through their comments, farmaishes, lyrics, e mails etc, I learn new things almost on a daily basis.
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Duniya banaane waale Raamjee
Posted on: August 17, 2011
“Baap Beti” (1954) is an obscure movie. Not much information is available about this movie on internet, and the sketchy information available on it could well be misleading and wrong, seeing that Asha Parekh’s name gets mentioned as an actor in this movie, and that too in the entry of imdb ! That site also mentions that it is a Bimal Roy movie based on a Guy de Maupassant novel and that it had Nalini Jaiwant and Tabassum too in it. Now this information appears more likely. Tabassum , then a young kid could have played Beti. But who played the Baap ? I request our knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this matter.
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Though I subscribe to three newspapers daily, I rarely go through much of their contents and the newspapers finally end up with the “raddiwala” after a few months. But on saturdays I look forward to these newspapers, rather to one column of one newspaper. It is the “Swar panchami” column of Hindi newspaper “Dainik Bhaskar”. In this column, Vividh Bharati radio announcer Yunus Khan discusses a few old songs. And as can be guessed, this topic is right up my alley.
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Sansaar se bhaage phirte ho
Posted on: August 1, 2011
It is a song that I thought was already discussed but that was not the case. I am thankful to Prakashchandra for sending the lyrics of this song and thus reminding me that this song is yet to figure in the blog.
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Ho dheere se gagri utaar
Posted on: July 16, 2011
“Zindagi Aur Ham” (1962) is a little known movie that had actors like Dinesh (?),Nalini Jaiwant,Chand Usmani,David,Mukri,Leela Mishra etc. This Parwez pictures movie was directed by Pt Anand Kumar.
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Kyaa dhadak dhadak dil dhadkey
Posted on: July 16, 2011
Music director Roshan was born on 16 july in the year 1917. He had a very successful career lasting nearly 18 years before he was snatched away at a relatively young age of only 50, when he was at the peak of his musical prowess.
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“Aji Bas Shukriya” (1958) was a movie starring Johny Walker and Geeta Bali. Yes, this movie had Johny Walker as the hero.
As can be guessed, this movie was a light hearted movie with fun songs in it.
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“Aagosh” (1953) is a movie that is well represented in this blog despite the obscure nature of this movie.This movie had Nasir Khan, Nutan, Agha, Shakila etc in this movie.
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“Aagosh” (1953) is a movie that starred Nasir Khan,Nutan, Agha, Shakila etc. This movie had some nice songs in it. I have in fact already discussed three songs from this movie.
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