Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 19, 2009
Rajesh Khanna, the superstar of late 1960s and early 1970s had fans swooning over his mannerisms. Whatever he touched turned to gold those days. Maryada was a movie where he acted opposite the ageing heroine Mala Sinha. This movie, though largely forgotten now, had some awesome songs. One Mukesh song from this movie, viz “jubaan [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 19, 2009
There are many occasions I am told that this particular song was so wonderful, and I nod my head sagely, though in reality I may not even have a clue what song is being talked about. For instance, I have been told that ” bol meri taqdeer me kya hai” from “Hariyali aur raasta” is [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 16, 2009
This song from “Holi Aayi re” appeared as a solo as well as a duet in the movie. The solo song sung by Mukesh is the one that became more popular and I too like the solo song more. Mukesh, as usual, paints a vivid picture of the feelings that the lyrics of indeewar seek [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 9, 2009
“Naseeb” was supposed to be a sequel of “Amar Akbar Anthony” with the same cast of brothers. But unfortunately Vinod Khanna was into following Acharya Rajneesh those days and so he had to be replaced by Shatrughan Sinha. Amitabh and Rishi Kapoor continued from the previous movie as did Pran from the previous movie as [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 5, 2009
It is one of the immortal ghazals of Bollywood. When one of the biggest music directors of that time, Naushad, heard the ghazals of Anpadh ( other ghazal being ” hai isi mein pyar ki aabroo”), he found out who the composer was, and then phoned Madan Mohan and took an appointment with him. When [...]