Posts Tagged ‘Shankar Jaikishan’
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A romantic song in the garden, with the hero and heroine moving between the flowers and around the trees, has been almost a fixture in the formula of social drama movies, almost from the word go. A difference that one can point out that in 30s and 40s, for such songs, the lead pair would be more sober with their movements, and probably be singing with very little movements. This changed in the 50s and 60s, when dancing, running and chasing each other became important elements of picturization of such songs.
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“Gaban” (1966) was a B J Production movie. It was produced by B N Sonthalia and R K Sorel and directed by Krishan Chopra and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Sadhana, Zeb Rehman, Minoo Mumtaz, Agha, Kanhaiyalal, Anwar Hussain, Badri Prasad, Leela Mishra, P. Kailash, Pratima Devi, Kamal Kapoor, Misra, Sarita Devi, B. B. Bhalla, Brahm Bhardwaj, Surekha Pandit, R K Soral, Ravikant, Kailash Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Sandeep, Mohsin Abdullah, Haroon, Laxmi Arya, R S Dubey, Meenakshi, Saroj Banerjee, Mehar Banu, C. S. Dubey, Assi Dutt, Mukund Banerjee, Deenanath, Shekhchand, Hakeem Lateef, Ranjit, Polson, Hashmat Rai, Rajiv D Grover, Bela Agha, Baldev Mehta, Ratan Gaurang, Abdul, Krishan Chopra, Moolchand etc in it.
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Aaye re din saawan ke
Posted on: March 14, 2013
“Gaban” (1966) was based on a Munshi Premchand Novel of the same name. It was a B J Production movie which was produced by B N Sonthalia and R K Sorel and directed by Krishan Chopra and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Sadhana, Zeb Rehman, Minoo Mumtaz, Agha, Kanhaiyalal, Anwar Hussain, Badri Prasad, Leela Mishra, P Kailash, Pratima Devi, Kamal Kapoor, Misra, Sarita Devi, B B Bhalla, Brahm Bhardwaj, Surekha Pandit, R K Soral, Ravikant, Kailash Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Sandeep, Mohsin Abdullah, Haroon, Laxmi Arya, R S Dubey, Meenakshi, Saroj Banerjee, Mehar Banu, C S Dubey, Assi Dutt, Mukund Banerjee, Deenanath, Shekhchand, Hakeem Lateef, Ranjit, Polson, Hashmat Rai, Rajiv D Grover, Bela Agha, Baldev Mehta, Ratan Gaurang, Abdul, Krishan Chopra, Moolchand etc in it.
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Bata de ae dil
Posted on: March 13, 2013
“Pooja” (1954) was a Verma Films production. It was directed by Bhagwandas Verma. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Purnima, Badri Prasad, Shakunthala Paranjape, Om Prakash, Raj Mehra, Ulhas, S Nazir, Hira Lal, Janakidas etc in it.
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Aayegaa kaun yahaan
Posted on: March 12, 2013
“Gumnaam” (1965) was a Prithvi Prictures production movie. It was produced by N N Sippy and directed by Raja Nawathe. The movie had Manoj Kumar, Nanda, Pran, Dhumal, Mehmood, Helen, Madan Puri, Tarun Bose, Manmohan, Naina, Laxmi Chhaya, Hiralal etc in it.
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“Halaaku” (1956) was an All India Pictures production. It was produced by P N Arora and D D Kashyap, with the latter directing the movie as well. The movie had Ajit, Meena Kumari, Pran, Minu Mumtaz, Veena, Sunder, Helen, Niranjan Sharma, Raj Mehra, Shammi etc in it.
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Sajan le jaayega tujh ko ghar
Posted on: March 10, 2013
“Gaban” (1966) was a B J Production movie. It was produced by B N Sonthalia and R K sorel and directed by Krishan Chopra and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Sadhana, Zeb Rehman, Minoo Mumtaz, Agha, Kanhaiyalal, Anwar Hussain, Badri Prasad, Leela Mishra, P. Kailash, Pratima Devi, Kamal Kapoor, Misra, Sarita Devi, B. B. Bhalla, Brahm Bhardwaj, Surekha Pandit, R K Soral, Ravikant, Kailash Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Sandeep, Mohsin Abdullah, Haroon, Laxmi Arya, R S Dubey, Meenakshi, Saroj Banerjee, Mehar Banu, C. S. Dubey, Assi Dutt, Mukund Banerjee, Deenanath, Shekhchand, Hakeem Lateef, Ranjit, Polson, Hashmat Rai, Rajiv D Grover, Bela Agha, Baldev Mehta, Ratan Gaurang, Abdul, Krishan Chopra, Moolchand etc in it.
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“Gumnaam” (1965) was based on Agatha Christie’s suspense novel “And then there were none”. And it must be said that this Hindi movie version added its own flavour to the story tailormade for its target audience. I am not sure that the original novel had a butler quite like Mehmood, for instance.
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Leja leja leja mera dil
Posted on: March 7, 2013
“An Evening in Paris” (1967) was produced and directed by Shakti Samanta. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, K N Singh, Rajendra Nath, Pran, Sarita, David Abraham, M B Shetty, Surendra Nath etc in it.
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Zubi zubi je l’laime vou
Posted on: March 6, 2013
“An Evening in Paris” (1967) was produced and directed by Shakti Samanta. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, K N Singh, Rajendra Nath, Pran, Sarita, David Abraham, M B Shetty, Surendra Nath etc in it.
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