Posts Tagged ‘S H Bihari’
Zara pyaar kar le babu
Posted on: April 25, 2012
“Mangu” (1954) was a Sheikh Mukhtaar Production movie. It was directed by M A Khan. The movie had Sheikh Mukhtar, Nigar Sultana, Arun, Mukri, Ansari, Sheila Ramani etc in it.
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When one looks at the Hindi movie actors of today, one finds that almost all of them are relatives of old time movie personalities. And those who are not, become related to old time film personalities by marrying into such families. So much so that it is a daunting task for rank outsiders to break into Hindi movies.
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Hindi movie songs cover lots of ground as far as depicting various human feelings as well as activities of Indians are concerned. But there are still a few regular activities that have been sadly underrepresented. For instance, there are hardly any songs for an activity as common as buying and selling of vegetables.
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Naram naram ye hai garam garam
Posted on: April 12, 2012
“Rangeela” (1953) was a movie produced and directed by Bhagwan. Not too m,any people are aware of this movie. Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our in house encyclopaedia on matters of obscure Hindi movies has this to say about this movie:-
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Ae dard e jigar fariyaad na kar
Posted on: April 11, 2012
I became aware of the movie when farmaish for a song of this movie was given by a reader some two years back. The reader had mentioned the movie as “Banu” which was a typo and as a result my search was delayed. Finally I located the song. Being able to home in on this elusive song gave me tremendous satisfaction. That song was the first song from this movie to be posted in this blog. Subsequently I have discussed two more songs from this movie.
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When one talks of a movie called “Rangeela” then most people are reminded of the Aamir Khan and Urmila Matondkar movie of 1995. But it turns out that there was another movie of the same name which was released as far back as in 1953.
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Till one year ago, this blog was largely a one man show. But with time, music lovers joined in and became regulars, and a few regulars became contributors too. With time, some of these contributors began to achieve their own landmarks in the blog, viz. century of contributions etc.
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I became aware of “Puraskaar” (1970) after Memsaab reviewed this movie in her blog. It turns out that the movie is a treasure of great songs. I wonder how I was not aware of this movie when it was released in 1970s, seeing that this movie had music by R D Burman and I, like most music lovers was a big fan of R D Burman’s music.
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“Ye Raat Phir Na Aayegi” (1966) was a Sri Krishna Films presentation. It was directed by Brij. The movie had Vishwajeet, Sharmila Tagore, Madhumati, Prithviraj Kapoor, Mumtaz, Asit Sen, B. M. Vyas, Helen, Sailesh Kumar etc in it.
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“Inspector” (1970) was a movie which was produced by Chand and directed by S K Kapoor. The movie had Joy Mukherjee, Alka, Helen, Rajendra Nath, Kiran Kumar, Zeb Rehman, Samina, Murad, M.B. Shetty, Asha Nadkarni, Jayant etc in it.
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