Posts Tagged ‘Usha Mangeshkar’
Saanjh bhayi sun ri sakhi
Posted on: February 6, 2011
“Honeymoon” (1960) is a movie that had Manoj Kumar, Kuldeep Kaur, Saeeda Khan, Vijay Choudhary in it.
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“Grihasthhi” (1963) was a family drama in which Ashok Kumar and Nirupa Roy (the standard couple of those days) play the parents of no less than seven daughters ! So naturally, much of the movie revolves around the efforts of the parents to get their daughters married off.
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Regular Hindi movie watchers may have certainly watched a few historical/mythological movies involving Kings. In these movies,King and his ministers would assemble in a Raj Darbaar (King’s court) the way today’s Business houses have their General Body Meeting. What is common in all these meetings is that after the meeting, there would be often by an entertainment programme. Today, the location of entertainment may be different from that of the meeting, but that was not the case in historical times. The entertainment programme would take place in the Raj darbaar itself.
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Long ago, when I was a school kid, I was an avid radio listener. One of the radio programmes that I regularly listened to was “Vishesh Jaimala” broadcast on saturday evening (and repeated on sunday afternoon). This programme was presented by a celebrity from Bollywood, but sometimes celebrities from other fields were also invited to present the programme.
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I have been posting songs from “Banarasi Thug” (1962) these days. This is a movie that was a B grade movie, but what songs this movie had !
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khuli khuli zulfon ko baandh bhi lo
Posted on: July 12, 2010
I have recently stumbled upon the songs of “Banarasi Thug” (1962) and I have posted a couple of songs from this movie.
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“Banarasi Thug” (1962) is not a movie that I knew much about. I began to search for the songs of this movie after I was told by a reader (Veena Seth) that the songs of this movie are missing from the blog.
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I may have heard this song in passing in the past, but I never paid much attention to it, and indeed I had no clue about this song.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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