Posts Tagged ‘Shailendra’
Dard e ulfat chhupaaun kahaan
Posted on: November 28, 2012
“Aurat” (1953) was a Verma Films Production. It was produced by Munshi Raam Verma and directed by Bhagwandas Verma. The movie had Premnath, Bina Rai, Purnima, Ullhas, Hiralal, Roopmala, Nazirabai, Mirabai, Devkishan, Mirza, S. Pratap, Shanta Patel, Nazir Kashmiri, Rajkishore 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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Unhen tu bhool jaa ae dil
Posted on: November 27, 2012
“Naya Ghar” (1953) was a Kashyap Productions movie. It was produced and directed by D D Kashyap. The movie had Shekhar, Geeta Bali, Begum Para, Jagdev, Leela Chitnis, Ratan Kumar, Shailendra etc in it.
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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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Dekho na jaao ae bereham
Posted on: November 19, 2012
“Boyfriend” (1961) was an N S Films Production. It was produced and directed by N S Viz Naresh Saigal. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Madhubala, Achla Sachdev, Nishi, Maruti, Amirbai Karnataki, Dharmendra, Sudesh Kumar, Dhumal etc in it.
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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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Chham chham lo sun
Posted on: November 18, 2012
“Ujaala” (1959) was an Eagle Films Production. It was produced by F C Mehra and directed by Naresh Saigal. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Mala Sinha, Raj Kumar, Kumkum, Leela Chitnis, Dhumal etc in it.
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Plagiarism, or what is euphemistically called “taking inspiration” is nothing new for hindi movies. We have instances of movies which have been lifted frame by frame from movies from some other countries, and that too without acknowleding the fact. And in case people come to know about such acts, the makers of the plagiarised movie are often quite defiant about it and refuse to acknowledge the fact.
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When I was a pre teen kid during late 1960s and early 1970s, I once read a funny poem in the Hindi magazine “Parag”. It went
Deewaaron pe lagi huyi thhi filmy posteron ki qataar
“Hum Hindustani”, “Badtameez”, Aawaara”, “Junglee”, “Jaanwar” aur “Ganwaar” ! 🙂
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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