This BLOG is about the Past of Hindi Films Specially Black and White Cinema We will refresh your memories by bringing out forgotten or unseen songs and clippings of film scenes We will try to give you as much information as we gather from our research.
This Blog was started as a one-man’s passion for film history but has now become an addiction for many music lovers who are equally passionate about Hindi films
We all know Amjad Khan(12 November 1940 – 27 July 1992) as Gabbar Singh. He enjoyed popularity for villainous roles in many Hindi films, It was Satyajit Ray, who changed his image in the 1977 film Shatranj Ke Khiladi. He played the helpless and deluded monarch Wajid Ali Shah, whose Kingdom, Avadh. After this role, Dev Anand gave him a positive role of Buta Singh in 1978 film Des Pardes. Gulzar also gave him the role of King Akbar in 1979 film Meera. In 1980, he played the role of Inspector Amjad Khan in Qurbani and also sang a song. He played many positive roles in films such as Yaarana (1981) and Laawaris (1981) as Amitabh's friend and father respectively. He portrayed Vatsayana, in 1984 film Utsav. and playing comical characters in films such asLove Story, Chameli Ki Shaadi (1986), and Maa Kasam (1986) In 'Love Story', he was nominated for this film as the Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In a career of two decades, he worked over 130 films, many regarded as Bollywood classics. Starting as a child artist, he became the topmost villain and later a character actor. Many of us do not know that he made his debut as an adult actor in Hindustan Ki Kasam (1973). He briefly ventured into direction too and made a couple of movies — Chor Police (1983) and Ameer Aadmi Gareeb Aadmi (1985). He won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Dada (1980), Best Supporting Actor – Yaarana (1982), and Best Comedian – Maa Kasam (1986) Due to his increasing weight, he died of myocardial infarction in 1992 at the age of 51. Several of the films he had completed were released after his death, until 1996. The first song picturized on Amjad Khan
This song and the film'Tumsa Nahin Dekha' was a gamechanger for Shammi Kapoor. Before this film, he had given 18 flop films in a row. This film was written by Nasir Hussain in keeping Dev Anand in mind. When Dev Anand refused to do this film, Shammi Kapoor was given this film. This superhit song was written by Sahir Ludhianvi and composed by O P Nayyar well in advance keeping in mind Dev Anand. This was the only song written by Sahir in this film, he also opted out of the film because Dev Anand is not doing the film. Those days only Dev Anand had a flamboyant image and his earlier films (Munimji and Paying Guest) with the producers had similar roles and were superhit. The director of the film Nasir Hussain said in an interview that he was reluctant to take Shammi Kapoor as his hero for this film, it was his first film as a director and he wanted to work with an established hero. S Mukkharjee the producer suggested the name of Sunil Dutt after Dev Anand's refusal, ultimately the name of Shammi Kapoor emerged. Shammi Kapoor, who knew the story of the film and also knew that it will be a musical Rom-Com was desperate to grab this film to boost his sinking career. Nasir Hussain thought of changing the earlier image of Shammi Kapoor, asked him to remove his mustaches and change his hairstyle. Shammi Kapoor told in an interview that this film was his dream film, he wanted this type of a role to show to the world his style. Those days no specialized choreographers were available for the songs. Heroes used to be sober or simpler in their songs. I had a great sense of dance and music, could improvise my own steps. So I asked Nasir Hussain to give him the recording of the song so that he could prepare for the song. The day he got the recording of this song he went up to the terrace of his house at Chembur, he danced with the rhythm throughout the night., until every line, every beat had seeped into his body. When the song was being picturized, Nasir Hussain gave him the full freedom to make his moves and steps. Everybody present there were surprised to see Shammi performing the song. Nasir Hussain was happy, he wanted Shammi Kapoor to do differently and he did it. This is a version song, the other version was sung by Asha Bhonsle, the favorite of composer O P Nayyar.
This is the first film of Dharmendra and Hema Malini. The two of them went on to work in a total of 28 films together and getting married along the way, in 1979. Both of them gave.17 consecutive hits from 1970-1979 They also had another release together that same year "Sharafat" which was also a critical and commercial success.
This film was released on 24th July 1970 and completed silver jubilee in 3 cities. The film is entertainment,, in fact, was the beginning of Dharmendra's tryst with comedy which was later extended to Chupke Chupke, Sholay, etc. This is a typical 70s style 'feel good' movie which can be watched many times over.
Dharmendra plays a Naval Officer in the film. He has a number of affairs until he meets a beautiful girl Anuradha (Hema Malini) and falls in love with each other. Ranjeet(Pran) also admires her and wants to marry her. He informs Sunil and his mother that Anuradha has a child and she is deceiving them. Shocked to hear this, The child is kidnapped and then a lot of drama to locate the child. In the end, Sunil comes to know the truth behind the child in question which changes his life forever.
If you are a Dharmendra or Hema Malini's fan, you will enjoy this film. If you can overlook the plot holes you will also enjoy this film. There is Rajendranath, who is in top form as the comedic sidekick. There is Helen, as usual with a great song and dance number The music is by Shankar Jaikishan The music numbers are a delight and they really save the film.
Mukesh(22 July 1923- 27 August 1976) is considered to be one of the most popular and acclaimed playback singers of the Hindi film industry. Among billions of his fans was the great spin & Googly bowler Bhagwat Chandrashekhar. Mukesh was a favorite of renowned Indian spin-bowler Bhagwat Chandrasekhar. When the sound of a Mukesh song drifted to the pitch, Chandrasekhar's acknowledgment of the tribute would bring a roar from the crowd. Sunil Gavaskar wrote that sometimes he hummed a Mukesh tune on the field to inspire Chandra. Chandra has had a special fondness for Mukesh's songs since his childhood. He used to tune into them on Radio Ceylon every night, and often dreamt of actually hearing him sing live someday. His opportunity came only after he joined the Indian eleven in the early sixties, and started going to Bombay often for matches. He had the ambition to meet his idol once, which he told to his friend in Bombay, a jockey friend M J Raju, who happened to know Mukesh personally. He took a nervous and tongue-tied Chandra to a recording studio to listen to his idol live for the first time. Mukesh was recording songs for a film called Jyot Jale.
After his first meeting, they became good friends, though Mukesh was quite older to him he respected Chandrashekhar. Mukesh was also not a Cricket crazy unlike Raj Kapoor or Dilip Kumar but he never showed his dislike for the game.
Chandra spent many quiet evenings dining with Mukesh's family, of whom only Mukesh's son ever showed any interest in cricket. Sometimes, they would hit some popular nightspot and dine out together, just the two of them. Then, Mukesh would insist on driving Chandra back to the hotel. Occasionally, a cricketer friend would accompany Chandra to meet Mukesh, but Chandra tried to keep his treasured encounters with his friend as uncrowded as possible.
Chandrashekhar during an interview told "We only talked about his music, very little else,. We did not gossip about people in films or people in cricket. I lacked the knowledge to discuss the technicalities of his music with him, so we would just talk about the mood of a particular song, or what emotions we experienced on hearing it."
He had a great collection of Mukesh songs, almost 800 songs,'Yeh Mera Diwanapan' from Yahudi and the songs of Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behati Hai are a few of his favorite songs of Mukesh.
Sunil Gavaskar in an interview to Sony TV once said he was playing in a Ranji Match, Chandrashekhar was bowling him and beating him with his Googlya leg break, and following on through to the batsman. Not to sledge him but to ask, "Suna kya?" (Did you hear that?), as a Mukesh song wafted to the pitch from a spectator's transistor. Indians of an earlier generation took transistor radios to first-class matches - and listened to the running commentary. Often they tuned in to popular stations playing Bollywood songs. The volume was turned up when a Mukesh song came on during a match involving Chandra, or a song involving Sharmila Tagore when her husband, Tiger Pataudi, was in action. When players acknowledged the tribute, the crowd roared. It was a way of connecting with the stars in the pre-television and pre-selfie days.
Chandrashekhar was a Kannada speaking and didn't understand Hindi, he couldn't understand the lyrics of Mukesh songs but he liked his voice and tunes. Players of his era tell that Chandra was a quiet person and whenever you go to his room, one can always see him listening only to Mukesh songs.
Mukesh named his son Nitin, like him, he also named his son Nitin. Here are a few of Chandra's favorite Mukesh songs
This super hit song from the Navketan's Baazi(1951) was written by Sahir Ludhianvi was a Ghazal to be picturized as per the situation but Dada Burman felt that in this situation Ghazal will not suit so he effortlessly turned it into a club song and changed the situation. This song was sung by Geeta Roy(Dutt) You would be surprised to note that Guru Dutt who was the director of the film fell in love with Geeta Roy during the recording of this song. The mahurat of Baazi took place in 1950, the mahurat shot was taken on the sequence of this song. Everybody present there appreciated the song and its picturization. When the film was released, it became a super-duper hit, this song became so popular that audiences came repeatedly to watch just this song. This was the first shot of the career as a director for Guru Dutt obviously wanted to use his skills as a choreographer, learned at no less an institution than Uday Shankar’ for the mahurat shot. It was a delicately balanced scene. A long shot on the gangster’s moll, who was to seduce the hero. Yet she was obviously half in love with the debonair, dashingly handsome young man, and even as she sang to him to lure him along, she wished to warn him of the dangers lurking around. An NRI musician Sadanand Warrier says that it was surprising that Dada who had no affection and knowledge of western music could use chromatic notes in the interlude of the song. Even the 'Hey Hey Hey Hey' is essentially chromatic movement. In an interview, Dada Burman said that he deliberately used the phrase 'Hey Hey Hey Hey' to capture the feelings of being truly liberated as portrayed by the young woman. This song became a rage, it is said the people liked this song so much that cine-goers used to see the movie only for this song, many would walk out after the song ends. S D Burman once said in Filmfare that.once he was fishing in Calcutta and was not able to catch a single fish, he set patiently for the whole day but couldn't catch any. Thoroughly disappointedly he was calling it a bad day, suddenly a boy of 10 years jumped into the pond and started singing his this Baazi song not knowing the composer of the song sitting there. That made his day It was the biggest catch of his life.
It was between 1959 and 1966 that he reached the peak of his career and acquired the name of Jubilee Kumar which will be his for the times to come.There were times when he had six or seven films that had run for more than 25 weeks. He made his film debut with a small role in Kidar Sharma's 1950 film Jogan, opposite Dilip Kumar and Nargis.that was a Jubilee hit. His first film as a hero was 'Vachan'released after 5 years of his debut was also a Jubilee hit. He got further success with his supporting role in Mehboob Khan's blockbuster epic film Mother India in 1957 in which he played Nargis's character's son. His first major success as a romantic leading man was in Amit Saxena's musical Goonj Uthi Shehnai (1959), co-starring Ameeta. He came at a time when Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand, and Raj Kapoor were ruling the Bollywood, he established himself and gave one hit film by another hit. In 1961, he had 8 films released out of these 5 films were Jubilee hit. The first film released that year was Pyaar Ka Saagar, then Aas Ka Panchhi, which was also the first film of filmmaker J Omprakash,, Gharana was the next followed by Sasural and Dharamputra, all were hit. Some of his hit films of 60s are Dil Ek Mandir (1963), Mere Mehboob (1963), Sangam (1964), Ayee Milan Ki Bela (1964), Arzoo (1965), Suraj (1966), Talash (1969) and Ganwaar (1970). He received the Filmfare Nomination for Best Actor for Dil Ek Mandir (1963), Ayee Milan Ki Bela (1964), Arzoo (1965), and as Best Supporting Actor for Sangam (1964) But just when he was at his zenith after Suraj, the sun began to slowly set on Rajendra's career. Whether it was Aman and Palki [1967], Jhuk Gaya Aasmaan, and Saathi [1968] or Shatranj [1969], his films were disappointments. By that time Rajesh Khanna emerged as Super Star, he started giving hits after hits. Rajendra Kumar was born on 20th July 1929 and died on July 12, 1999, Rajendra Kumar, an ace at playing a doctor grappling with life-threatening diseases (Dil Ek Mandir, Saathi), finally succumbed to cancer.
There are many actors who played siblings in one film and effortlessly slipped into the role of lovers in other films and vice versa. Take the example of Dev Anand and Zeenat Aman who played brother and sister in Hare Rama Hare Krishna and then played as lovers in many films. Dharmendra and Meena Kumari did many films as the romantic lead but in 1964 they did their first film "Kajal" played brother and sister in the film.
On the cusp of stardom, Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini starred as siblings in the thriller Gehri Chaal (1973) but after that, they did many films as lovers.
Nanda played Dev Anand’s sister in Kala Bazar (1960) and later played the romantic pair with him in Hum Dono (1961) and Teen Devian (1965).
In the 1960 Dev Anand had 2 films released with Suchitra Sen. In Bombai Ka Babu, Suchitra Sen plays the role of sister of Dev Anand and in another film Sarhad, she was in a romantic role with him.
In 1963, the film Gehra Daag had Mumtaz playing Rajendra Kumar’s younger sister while Mala Sinha was paired opposite him. In 1972 the duo came together inTaangewaala,produced and directed by Rajendra Kumar’s brother Narendra Kumar
. Shah Rukh Khan & Aishwarya Rai came together for the first time inJosh (2000), where Shah Rukh Khan is the leader of a local gang in Goa and Aishwarya who plays his twin sister, Later in the same year, they come as lovers in Yash Raj Films’Mohabbatein. After this, they were seen in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’sDevdas.
In 1987 came an action drama Dacait based on the dacoits, Urmila Matondkar plays the younger sister of Sunny Deol in the film. In 1999, Sunny Deol directed his first film "Dillagi"starring himself and his real brother Bobby Deol, he cast Urmila as his heroine
In 1989, Jackie Shroff and Madhuri Dixit teamed up as a brother-sister duo in Rajiv Rai’s blockbuster Tridev, In 1992 in a beautiful filmSangeetwhich had Madhuri Dixit in a double role- that of an older woman and a young blind girl. Jackie Shroff falls in love with the blind Madhuri.
Nargis played Sunil Dutt's mother in Mother India (1957) and his lover in Yaadein (1964).
Shammi Kapoor was Saira Banu’s lover in Junglee but later became her father in Zameer.
Similarly, Ashok Kumar who worked with Meena Kimari in many films as his silent lover did play her long-lost father Shahabuddin, in 1972 film Pakeezah.
Waheeda Rehman who is the favorite heroine of Amitabh Bachchan was his heroine in Adalat and Kabhie Kabhie also played his mother in Trishul.
Similarly, Rakhi who played romantic leads in Kasme Vaade, Bemisal and Barsat ki Ek Raat with Amitabh Bachchan also played the mother role in Shakti
Sharmila Tagore and Amitabh Bachchan
Sharmila Tagore plays mother to Big B in Desh Premee (1982) and his wife in Faraar (1975).
Song of Hare Rama Hare Krishna 1971
Song of Heera Panna
Song of Purnima 1965
Song of Bombai Ka Babu 1960
Song of Taangewala 1972
Song of Josh 2000
Song of Mohabbatein 2000
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