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Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Phool (1944)

Phool is not yet available on DVD or VCD but it is the first of the very few movies made by one of India’s great directors, K. Asif, whose Mughal-e Azam is rightly regarded as one of the best Indian films ever made. Phool is fascinating, as it mixes several ‘Islamicate’ genres, being partly a ...

. . . . . Historical

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Elaan (1947)

Story of two half-brothers, the evil Sajjad (Himalaywala) and the good Javed (Surendra). Exploited since his childhood by the richer and crueller branch of the family, represented by Sajjad and his mother (Zebunissa), Javed loses his beloved (Munawar Sultana), bought by Sajjad’s family wealth. The fortunes of the two brothers change; Sajjad gambles away his ...

. . . . Drama

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Babul (1950)

Synopsis Set in a small village, Babul is a story of a young postmaster Ashok (Dilip Kumar). He stays in the house of a former postmaster and meets his daughter Bela (Nargis). Bela falls deeply in love, dreaming of a life with him. Meanwhile Dilip develops feelings for the Zamindar’s daughter Usha (Munawar Sultana), who ...

. . . Drama

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Naseem Bano

It may not ring a bell with young Pakistanis, but Prechehra Naseem Bano’s name will revive septuagenarian’s nostalgic memories of subcontinental cinema’s early magical days. Few film celebrities of the Indian cinema could win popularity and fame of such unprecedented scale in the relatively short period of time that the captivatingly beautiful actress Naseem Bano ...

. Actors & Actresses

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Baiju Bawra (1952)

The greatest strength of this historical film about Baiju Bawra (Bharat Bhushan), the musician who challenged the court musician Tansen to a musical duel (a jugalbandi; performed here by Ustad Amir Khan and Pandit D. V. Paluskar) to avenge the murder of his father, is not surprisingly the outstanding music composed by one of Hindi ...

. Musical

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Chandralekha (1948)

In Madras, in 1948, after five years of preparation, there appeared one of the most famous films in Indian history, one of the largest all-India box-office triumphs (603 copies of the film were made for release, some of which were subtitled for the English-speaking market)—Chandralekha. This breathtaking extravaganza, a combination of southern excessiveness, Busby Berkeley ...

. Historical

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Hemant Kumar – Shamshad Begum

Hemant Kumar (the music director) and Shamshad Begum – Like other music directors from Bengal belt i.e. Anil Biswas and Salil Chaudary, Hemant Kumar used Shamshad’s voice sparingly. As far as I know, the only song he composed for Shamshad, was a duet with Geeta Dutt from Yahudi ki Ladki (1957) – Hum Kisi Se ...

. . Bollywood

Saturday, October 17th, 2009 by admin
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Mukesh – Shamshad Begum

Mukesh and Shamshad Begum approximately sang 26 duets together. Details are provided below :- Song Film Music Director Year KYA JADU HAI TERE PASS PIYA CHEHRA M. A. Mukhtar 1946 MOTI CHUGNE GAYI RE HANSI CHHEEN LE AAZADI Hansraj Behl 1947 LUT GAYI HO,LUT GAYI LAJO CHHEEN LE AAZADI Hansraj Behl 1947 AGARE SE ODANI ...

. . Bollywood

Saturday, October 17th, 2009 by admin
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Shamshad Begum – Talat Mahmood

Talat Mahmood and Shamshad approximately sang 10 duets together. Details are provided below :- Song Co- Singer Film Music Director Year Dekho baras rahi barsaat Titli Vinod ? Nadiya mein uth raha hai Rafi Babul Naushad 1950 Milte hi ankhen Babul Naushad 1950 Duniya badal gaee Babul Naushad 1950 Jawani ke zamaane mein Madhubala Lachiram 1950 ...

. . Bollywood

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 by admin
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Mohd Rafi – Shamshad Begum

Mohammed Rafi and Shamshad Begum sang almost 160 duets together in hindi films. Their first duet together was with Zohra Bai Ambala Wali Chotisee ek banayenge naiyya from Hamara Sansar (1945) with music scored by Pandit Govindram. Some of their best known duets were composed by Naushad and O.P Nayyar. While Naushad gave them the ...

. . Bollywood

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