Posts Tagged ‘Shakeel Badayuni’
Chham chhamaachham paayal baaje
Posted on: July 6, 2011
“Rail Ka Dibba” (1953) is one of the earliest movie of Shammi Kapoor. In this movie he is paired opposite Madhubala. By that time, Madhubala had already carved a niche for herself whereas Shammi Kapoor had yet to discover his niche.
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“Pugree” (1948) is a movie that had Amar, Wasti, Kamini Kaushal, Dikshit,Shashikala, Gope, Pratima Devi, Ram Avtaar etc in it.
This movie had some nice songs in it which were sung by Mukesh, Sitara Kanpuri and Shamshad Begam. I have so far discussed three songs from this movie.
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Aankhon mein hai tu
Posted on: July 3, 2011
“Laila Majnu” (1953) is one of the earlier movies of Shammi Kapoor and here he had played the role of Majnu opposite Nutan playing Laila.
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Dil ki lagi ne hamko
Posted on: July 2, 2011
Old Hindi movies and their songs are much like old monuments in Indian towns that mostly lie unattended and neglected. These monuments (and movies) were once centres of public attention and now few people are even aware of their existence. The legacy left behind by them is quite rich but few people bother to dig them up, refurbish them and preserve them. And it is a pity.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Om Prakash holds a special position amongst the comedy / character artists in the Hindi film world. Hailing from Jammu (born 1919), he started his acting career on stage. Then after a brief stint at the All India Radio in Lahore, he got his first major break in the movies in early 1940s, with the famous producer director DS Pancholi. He did some movies in Lahore, including Daasi, Dhamki, and Aayee Bahaar. After partition, he moved to Bombay. In a career that lasted a little over five decades, he is credited with acting in 300 plus films. Om Prakash has always held out on his own even in the presence of many leading lights of their times, having worked with the three great actors of 50s and 60s, down to working with Big B in the 1980s. And his repertoire is not limited to small, comedy roles only. He has a fair share of pivotal roles that he played in many movies during his career; in fact the success of many movies is attributed to his roles, viz. Chupke Chupke, Julie, Sharaabi, Namak Halaal, Gopi, Sadhu aur Shaitaan, Annadata, Buddha Mil Gaya etc.
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These are are days of consumerism where people have mind boggling variety of materials to choose from. It is difficult to imagine today that Indian shops till 1970s wore spartan looks and they hardly had anything to offer. People got “phoren” goods from abroad and flaunted them proudly. And smuggling (bringing items without paying the exorbitant taxes) was a flourishing business.
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“Rail Ka Dibba” (1953) was one of the very first movies of Shammi Kapoor. Of course, he was nowhere close to realising his potential and discovering his identity in this movie. For that he would have to wait for another four years.
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I have discussed one song from “Grihasthhi” (1948) in the past. From the comments by our experts, I came to know that this movie had actors like Masood,Sulochana Chatterji,Pran,Sharada,Shyama,Kuldeep kaur,Faizi,Rajni,Yakub, Lalita Pawar,Mirza Musharraf etc in it.
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Koi pukaare piyaa piyaa
Posted on: June 24, 2011
I have discovered that obscure movies are often treasures of great music. I keep discoveing such forgotten treasures all the time.
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Dil le ke chhupne waale
Posted on: June 23, 2011
During late 1940s and early 1950s, Rehman used to act as hero in Hindi movies. Unfortunately most such movies with him as the hero seem to have ended up as obscure movies, and he finally had to end up making his living as character artist in subsequent years.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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