Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● August 8, 2010
“Sachcha Jhootha”(1970) had two Rajesh Khannas in it. One would sing hit songs, and the other would move around with shady characters.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● February 15, 2010
Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz star in this movie. Rajesh Khanna in fact has a double role in this movie.This movie was released in 1970 when everything that Rajesh Khanna touched turned to gold.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 12, 2009
Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz made a very popular pair on Bollywood screen, and the duets picturised on them were an important highlights of such movies.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 11, 2009
1972 was the year when many Bollywood movie makers decided to hitch the bandwagon turned Juggernaut of Kishore Kumar- RD Burman combination. And the result were some movies that had music by R D Burman and songs by Kishore, but the movies themselves were no great shakes.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 6, 2009
“Do Raaste” was one of the earlier hits of Rajesh Khanna. This movie, like most hits of Rajesh Khanna, had many hit songs. In fact, I am coming round to the view that many movies of those days became hits thanks to their music and the credit went to the Hero, often undeservedly. There are [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 5, 2009
“Safar” was a Rajesh Khanna movie of 1970. One thing that is noticeable about this movie is its songs. Quite a few of its songs became very popular. Another fact that I have noticed is that these songs are sung by different singers. Nothing unusual about different singers singing in a movie. But what is [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 4, 2009
In case heroes of Bollywood movies need to save a damsel in distress, there are various methods. One method is direct action method, where the hero comes charging in and singlehandedly destroys the villain’s hideout.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 25, 2009
In 1970s, Rajesh Khanna was the reigning male superstar whereas Hema Malini was the dream girl. But the two hardly paired with each other. Rajesh Khanna was mainly paired with Mumtaz and Sharmila Tagore, whereas the pairing of Dharmendra and Hema Malini was taken for granted those days.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 24, 2009
I have posted a few songs where readers of this blog commented like- “it is the first time I have heard this song”. This time the shoe is on the other foot. It is one of the readers of this blog, who sent his farmaish for this song, and I was like ” which is [...]