Posts Tagged ‘Salil Chaudhary’
Aaj koi nahin apna
Posted on: January 6, 2013
“Agnipareeksha” (1981) was a B R Films Production movie. It was produced by B R Chopra and directed by Kamal Majumdar. The movie had Amol Palekar, Rameshwari, Parikshath Sahni, Veena, Utpal Dutt, Iftekar, Dr.Sri Raam Lagoo, S.N.Bannerjee, Nana Palsikar, Jagadish Raj, Dinesh Thakur, JankiDass, Prem Sagar, Dev Dutt, Sunil Dhawan, Master Danny, Amol Sen, Pravin Khanna, Maher, Dev Sharma, Sundar Taneja, Satya Banerjee, Heeraji, Navin Kumar, Gaikwad etc in it.
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Sapnon mein mere koi aaye jaaye
Posted on: December 22, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
‘Poonam Ki Raat’ is a film from almost 50 years ago. And the thought comes to mind that the period of time from which we remember the best loved music is now receding in history. Just the films and songs that used to be new and fresh in mind and in media, are now counted as half century old, and even older.
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“Chaar Deewaari” (1961) was produced by Chhaaya Dhwani and directed by Krishan Chopra. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Nanda, Leela Chitnis, Laxmi, Manmohan Krishna, Satish Vyas, Pravin Paul etc in it.
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Arre waah mere maalik
Posted on: November 27, 2012
After discussing the sixth song of “Half Ticket” (1962), I thought that all the songs of this movie were covered. I did not receive the expected “Yippee” comment from Pradeep Raghunathan though which he makes every time such a thing happens. He informed me that one song from this movie was still missing.
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1950s and 1960s were the decades when making the audience cry in movies was a tried and tested way of making movies. Making tearjerkers was the safe way to produce movies those days.
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“Half Ticket” (1962) was a Film Technician Production. Kalidas is the director. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Madhubala, Pran etc in it. This movie was one of few Hindi movies that could be described as a laugh riot.
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Chaand raat tum ho saath
Posted on: November 19, 2012
Most Hindi movies tend to be made on “serious” topics. Light hearted fun movies are are quite few because making such movies obviously takes more skill and ability than making movies of mainstream topics.
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Kaise manaaun piyawaa
Posted on: October 18, 2012
“Chaar Deewaari” (1961) was produced by Chaaya Dhwani and directed by Krishn Chopra. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Nanda, Leela Chitnis, Manmohan Krishna, Satish Vyas etc in it.
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Whenever I am reminded of “Jaagte Raho”(1956), I am reminded of the wonderful drunkard song from this movie which is sung by Mukesh and picturised on Motilal. This song,Zindagi khwaab hai is picturised on a fully drunk Motilal swaying merrily in empty streets and going towards his home, with Raj Kapoor looking on.
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