September 11th, 2010

Bollywood – Year by Year – 1956

Important Events

R.K. Films’  Jagte Raho wins the Grand Prix at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

Indian Talkies celebrates its Silver Jubilee in Bombay (The first India talkie [film with sound], Alam Ara, was released in 1931.

Geeta Dutt

Geeta Dutt

Geeta Dutt sings for Pakistani film Miss 56 (starring :- Meena Shorey and Santosh Kumar)

Famous Geeta Dutt song Jata kahan hai deewane from C.I.D.  is censored out of the film because Censors Board considers ‘Fiffy’ as an obscene word and the song shows a police inspector being seduced by a vamp.

Debuts

Waheeda Rehman in C.I.D (1956)

Waheeda Rehman in C.I.D (1956)

Waheeda Rehman debuts as a vamp in her first Hindi film C.I.D (1956).

Timeline