Posts Tagged ‘Shabana Azmi’
Ham dono ka mel
Posted on: September 21, 2013
“Vishwaasghaat” (1977) was produced by Johny Bakshi and directed by Mahesh Bhatt. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar(in double role)Dina Pathak, Shabana Azmi, Kabir Bedi, Satyen Kappoo, Padma khanna, Jagdeep,MadanPuri, Sharat Saxena, Haroon Khan, Gurcharan, Joshi, Ashwani Kumar, Jagdeep, Master Bhagwan aka Bhagwan Dada, Mac Mohan, Ravi etc in it.
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Kya tumne hai keh diya
Posted on: September 18, 2013
This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
So this month sees a few greats celebrating their birthdays, one of them being Shabana Azmi- daughter of the very talented Shaukat Azmi and the poet with Communist leanings Kaifi Azmi. Basically a talent that was more into art films (a very Bollywood way of naming cinema that were seen only at film festivals and at the National Award ceremonies) but some one who couldn’t completely ignore the pulls from the commercial cinema (as Shashi Kapoor once said one genre kept his home fires burning and providing funds for the other genre). So we could see her winning awards for Paar, Arth Nishant etc and entertaining us in Parvarish, Fakira, Swarag Narag, Jwalamukhi etc, in my honest opinion she looked great in glamorous outfits as well as in Sarees.
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Aanki chali baanki chali
Posted on: July 23, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
With this song Namkeen (1982) makes its debut on this blog. Namkeen is the story of an old woman and her three daughters, as Gulzar says, in their incomplete family (adhooraa saa parivaar). The elder daughter, Nimki (Sharmila Tagore) has passed the age of marriage (Gulzar’s words, not mine), the middle one Mitthu (Shabana Azmi) is speech-impaired and the youngest is Chinki (Kiran Vairale), who is very cheeky. In this family arrives as a paying guest the truck driver Gherulal.
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Chaand apna safar khatm karta raha
Posted on: June 12, 2013
“Shama” (1981) was a K R Films combines production. This movie is directed by Naeem Basit. The movie had Girish Karnad, Shabana Azmi, Aruna Irani, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Kader Khan, Master Raju, Sudha Chopra, Leena Das, Jagdeep, Goga Kapoor, Satyen Kappu, Amjad Khan, Dr Shreeram Laagoo, Vinod Mehra, Yunus Parvez etc in it.
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Ae jazba e dil gar main chaahoon
Posted on: January 18, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A few months back, I watched the movie ‘In Custody’ ( Urdu title : ‘Muhafiz’, 1994) on the internet. The film was produced under the banner of Merchant-Ivory Productions and directed by Ismail Merchant. Probably it was a bilingual film – in English and Hindi/Urdu. The star cast included Shashi Kapoor, Shabhana Azmi, Om Puri, Neena Gupta, Sushma Seth, Tinnu Anand, Ajay Sahani etc. The film was based on Anita Desai’s English novel by the same name. A pleasant surprise to me was that the film had 4 ghazals composed jointly by two well known ustads – Ustad Zakir Hussain and Ustaad Sultan Khan in the style reminiscence of the compositions of 50s and 60s. After all, it is a period film. Of the four ghazals, three ghazals are of Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
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“Avtaar”(1983) was a movie of Rajesh Khanna during the second innings of his acting career when he was no longer a superstar. The movies in which Rajesh Khanna acted during this phase won critical acclaim though even if Rajesh Khanna came nowhere close to regaining his lost crown.
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I was not aware of the fact that “Fakeera” (1976) was made by the same team that made “Chor Machaaye Chor” (1974). I always regarded “Chor Machaaye Shor” (1974) as an A grade movie and “Fakeera” (1976) as a B grade one. The fact that Mumtaz was the leading lady in “CMS” and a Shababa Azmi, then known only for her arts movie roles had much to do with my opinions about the two movies.
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Tumse hi roshan hai raat meri
Posted on: September 18, 2012
Today (18 september) is the birthday of Shabana Azmi. Daughter of Kaifi Azmi and Shaukat Azmi, Shabana Azmi made her debut in arts movies in early 1970s. after a few years, she made it to the mainstream movies. She was a misfit in the usual leading lady kind of singing dancing roles, but she was good in roles that required some real acting. and she got roles that exploited her acting ability.
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Gulmohar gar tumhaara naam hota
Posted on: September 6, 2012
Today (6 september) is the birthday of Rakesh Roshan, better known as the father of Hrithik Roshan and even better known as the son of music director Roshan. 🙂
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Do naina aur ek kahaani
Posted on: August 22, 2012
“Masoom” (1982) was inspired from “Man, Woman and Child written” by Erich Segal. And it must be said that the tale was very well adapted by Gulzar who wrote the screenplay and directed with great sensitivity and understanding by Shekhar Kapoor. There were few people in the audience who remained unmoved by the plight of eight year old Rahul (played by Jugal Hansraj), a result of one night affair between an unwed Bhawna (played by Supriya Pathak) and a happily married DK (Naseeruddin Shah) at Nainital at a time when DK’s wife Indu (Shabana Azmi) is expecting their first child. DK goes back home and has a happy family life with two daughters Pinky (Urmila Matondkar) and Minni (Aradhana).
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