Posts Tagged ‘Roti’
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the story of a diva who, despite being in the midst of very adverse family circumstances in her formative years and facing the conservative society, created a niche for herself in the field of classical and ghazal singing. It is also the story of a woman who, despite fame and adulation showered on her by millions of fans, felt lonely all through her life.
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Meghraaj meghraaj
Posted on: May 7, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Mehboob Khan is famous as one of the key pioneers and one of the greatest film makers of Indian cinema. Born in 1907 in at Bilimoria in Gujarat, he ran away from home at a very young age with dreams of making in big in the film industry of Bombay. He started out as a junior artist (extra) during the silent films era, making a debut as one of forty thieves in the 1927 silent version of ‘Alibaba and Forty Thieves’, produced by the Imperial Film Company of Ardeshir Irani. He caught the attention of Ardeshir Irani who made him an assistant director in his company. Later he moved to Sagar Movietone company, and appeared in bit roles in some of their movies. In 1935 he went on to independently direct his first film, ‘Judgment of Allah’ produced by Sagar Movietone. The movie was a great success in its time. His cameraman for this movie was Faredoon Irani, with whom Mehboob struck a lasting friendship. Faredoon was to capture in camera, almost all the films produced and directed by Mehboob.
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Ye jo public hai ye sab jaanti hai
Posted on: May 8, 2009
Rajesh Khanna was the reigning superstar in early 1970s and Kishore Kumar was the reigning king among male playback singer. and both of them has annexed their crowns almost at the same time.
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Gore rang pe na itna gumaan kar
Posted on: January 8, 2009
It has been a quite a while since I last posted a Rajesh Khanna-Mumtaz song. So I present one more such song.
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In case heroes of Bollywood movies need to save a damsel in distress, there are various methods. One method is direct action method, where the hero comes charging in and singlehandedly destroys the villain’s hideout.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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