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“Pyaasi Shaam”(1969) was a Kewaljeet production movie. It was directed by Amar Kumar. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Sharmila Tagore, Feroz Khan, Dhumal, Sunder, Feroz Khan, Vimal Ahuja, Anjali Kadam, Manmohan Krishna, Kamal Kapoor, Birbal, Om Prakash etc in it.
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Today (13 january 2013) is the 87th birth anniversary of Shakti Samanta (13 january 1926- 9 april 2009). Some of the most memorable Hindi movies in 1960s and 1970s were Shakti Films production. Movies like “Howrah Bridge” (1958), “China Town” (1961), “Kashmir Ki Kali” (1964), “An Evening in Paris” (1967), “Kati Patang” (1970), “Amar Prem” (1971) were Shakti Samanta’s movies.
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Today (27 september) is the 80th birthday of Yashraj Chopra, a veteran producer and director of Hindi movies. He began his career as a director in “Dhool Ka Phool” (1959) which was produced by B R Chopra, his elder brother. He directed five movies under the banner of “B R Chopra productions”. All of them were hit movies. He won Filmfare best director award for one of these movies, viz. “Waqt” (1965). In all he won Four Filmfare awards for best direction and four Filmfare awards for best movies in his career.
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Dinesh Thakur (8 august 1947 – 20 september 2012) was an actor in Hindi movies who was active from 1970s to 1990s. He was seen in movies like Mere Apne (1971), Anubhav (1971), Rajnigandha (1974),Parinay (1974), Kalicharan (1976), Ghar (1978), Naiyya (1979), Griha Pravesh (1979), The Burning Train (1980) etc. In addition, he also wrote the story and screenplay of “Ghar” (1978). “Ghar” (1978) won the Filmfare award for best story.
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“Dooriyaan” (1979) was a Climb Pictures production. It was directed by Bhimsen. The movie had Uttam Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Priyadarshini, Shriram Lagoo, Baby Geeta, Sudha Chopra, Sulbha Deshpande, Arvind Deshpande, Lalita Kohli, Nitin Sethi, Dutta Bhatt, Achyut Poddar, Kiran Seth etc in it.
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Post “Anand”(1970) and “Mili” (1975),Hrishikesh Mukherji hit upon the formula of family comedy movies. In these movies, there would be an old fashioned strict patriarch/ matriarch who would regard himself as a know all and he would rule his joint family with an iron hand. The story of the movie would let movie goers have a laugh at the cost of that patriarch/ matriarch. This character was typically played by Om Prakash, Utpal Dutt, Dina Pathak etc.
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Though “Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka” (1975) is a recent movie by the standards of this blog, this movie is not all that well known today. Perhaps a TV serial of the same name has hijacked the title and that has pushed the information about the movie of 1975 back.
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