Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 27, 2009
I have not watched the movie “Tum Haseen Main Jawaan” (1970) but going by the songs of this movie, I think this movie was one whose story was quite over the top.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 27, 2009
When I was growing up in a city in 1972, a new movie hall had come up and it was showing “Seeta Aur Geeta” (1972). Its song were so wonderful to listen to that I as a pre teen kid dearly wanted to watch the movie. One fine day, I dragged my elders to the [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul on: August 4, 2009
“Josheela” (1973) was a movie featuring Dev Anand and Hema Malini. The makers of this movie were expecting the movie to succeed like “Johny Mera Naam” which had the same pair. But lightening did not strike the second time and the movie failed.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: July 31, 2009
“Naya Zamana” (1970) was one of the first movies where Dharmendra and Hema Malini were seen together. In this movie, Dharmendra plays a union leader of a mill, whereas Hema Malini plays the daughter of the mill owner.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: July 18, 2009
Here is a song from “Gora aur Kaala” (1972). It was a popular song during its time.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: July 18, 2009
I have noticed that Bollywood movies have songs for almost all occasions. There are happy songs, there are sad songs, there are party songs, there are songs of loneliness. Then there are boat songs, rain songs, festival songs etc. In fact, I have discovered some fight songs, where the hero fights villains while singing.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: July 17, 2009
“Abhinetri’(1970) was one of the earlier movies of Hema Malini. Here she was paired up with Shashi Kapoor.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: June 21, 2009
This song is a quintessential “villain’s den” party song that we tended to have in Bollywood movies of 1970s. In most of these songs, the hero and heroine would enter villain’s high security party as the lead singers/dancers yet the villains would remain in the dark till the song is over.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: June 11, 2009
“Palkon ki Chhaon mein”(1977) was a movie starring Rajesh Khanna and Hema Malini. Despite boasting such big names, and despite a very nice storyline, the movie was a box office failure.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: June 10, 2009
This song was a long pending farmaish since last october. I was unable to comply with this farmaish for the simple reason that I had no clue about this song. In fact, I was not aware about this 1975 movie called “Sunahra Sansaar”.