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Rafi's Last Song by Composer Usha Khanna!

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In the field of Hindi cinema, the world of music composers seems to be dominated by men. But female musician Usha Khanna has carved out a niche for herself in this male-dominated world. His career started with Shashidhar Mukherjee's Filmista Sansthan film 'Dil Deke Dekho' in 1959 . Many melodious songs were given through films in the sixties and seventies. Rafi is his favorite singer. When we start thinking about the musical career of Rafi and Usha Khanna together, many songs start humming in our mind. 'After today I will not step into your streets', I immediately remember the song 'Havas' or the movie. In the same way, I have kept my love in the name of my story (Shabnam), you have come as a friend (Bin Phere Hum Tere), we will die separated from you (a snake charmer, a robber), we and you and this Sama (see with heart) how would we have won. Hai Log Dil Kisika (Saajan Bina Suhagan) this song also has a special place for us. Usha Khanna had shared many

Legacy: Dilip Kumar Rejected But Audience Accepted !

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  In the year 1997, the movie 'Virasat' (Virasat) had pleased the lovers of both the class and the masses. A great film was made. The film was a remake of a Tamil film. The story of the film was written by Kamal Haasan. He himself acted in this Tamil film. The original Tamil film was titled Thevar Magan. Kamal Haasan's father was played by veteran actor Sivaji Ganesan in these Tamil films. The film had melodious music by Ilaya Raja. The film 'Virasat' won many awards. The film also won the National Award. When Kamal Haasan thought of remaking the Tamil film in Hindi, he wanted Dilip Kumar to play the role of the father in the original Tamil film. A combination of Dilip Kumar and his son Kamala Haasan would have been great indeed; But Dilip Kumar showed his inability to act in the film. Because he was quite retired at that time. After Dilip Kumar's refusal, Kamal Haasan lost interest in making the film in Hindi. Later he gave the remake rights to Mushir Riaz.

The song 'Hey' was shot with a leg injury...

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 Amitabh Bachchan's late seventies were a whirlwind. During this period, each of his films was becoming a super hit. Amitabh was very successful in every field like Action, Emotion, Tragedy, Comedy. Many films of Amitabh Bachchan were released in 1978. 'Don' was an important movie among Trishul, Don, Ganga Ki Saugandh, Mukaddar Ka Sikandar, Kasme Vade, Besharam... It was actually four years in the making. Many events happened during the shooting of this movie. The cinematographer and producer of the film was Nariman Irani. He died during the shooting. When it seems like this movie is closing; All the artists of the film took a huge cut in their salaries and completed the film stubbornly. Released on 12 May 1978 without any promotion as all the money ran out. And a bumper hit. (amitabh bachchan) The director of the film Chandra Barot recently shared many memories of this film in an interview given to an English portal. In this movie 'Khai Ke Paan Banaras Wala….' Yo

Vidhu Vinod Chopra's classic movie of 35 years ago: Parinda

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The film 'Twelfth Fail', directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, won the best film award at this year's Filmfare Awards. Thirty-five years ago in 1989, the same director made a big splash in Bollywood by directing a powerful Hindi film. This movie was 'Parinda'. The film featured Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Nana Patekar and Madhuri Dixit in lead roles. Vidhu Vinod Chopra studied at Pune Film Institute and made some amazing films there. In the year 1985, he made an amazing film named 'Khamosh'. But because he got good distributors, the film did not go well in front of the audience. After that, Chopra decided to make a commercial film but he decided not to give up on realism while making this film. This film was based on the lives of two Mumbai gangsters Loosely Ashwin and Amar Naik. He had decided from the beginning to cast Anil Kapoor in the film. But when they started thinking about who should play the role of his elder brother, the first name that came to their

Amazing story of Saraswati Chandra's song!

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  The relationship between the lyricist and music composer in the film is 'Choli Daman Ka Saath Hota Hai' in film parlance. If there is proper tuning between the two, a wonderful song is produced. Generally the composer creates the tune first and the lyricist fits the words over it. This kind of thing is common in our Hindi cinema. But does it happen every time? So no. Sometimes the lyricist writes his song and gives it to the composer and the composer plays the lyrics. During these music sittings, a few words are often exchanged between the lyricist and the musician. Some songwriters are very particular about their words. It often leads to arguments. A similar incident happened with a popular song by lyricist Indeevar and music composer Kalyanji Anandji. What was this song? What was the dispute? It is a very interesting story. In the late sixties, director Govind Saraiya made a wonderful film based on Govardhan Ram Tripathi's novel 'Saraswatichandra'. The film was

Randeep Hooda successful in showing Savarkar's biography?

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  There have been many films on Gandhi. Even from Ben Kingsley's 'Gandhi' to Rajkumar Hirani and Sanjay Dutt's 'Lage Raho Munnabhai', the list goes on, and in between, Rajkumar Santoshi's childish and ridiculous 'Gandhi Vs Godse' also features Gandhi. But after 23 years of well-known singer and composer Sudhir Phadke, an actor from Haryana wants to make a film on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. The role goes to an actor from Haryana and he takes inspiration from it, receives a bow and the fact that audiences of all ages, from school children to the elderly flock to the ticket counters to appreciate his efforts, gives an idea of ​​the hard work Randeep has put into his film 'Swatantryaveer Savarkar'. . Playing Savarkar on the big screen is like walking with a burning coal in your hand. Because even though their thoughts, their scientific integrity are very nice to hear and read, it is not possible for today's generation to put them into practice

Sunil Dutt brought back Nargis who was in 'coma'!

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  The story of Satyavan Savitri is very popular in our Puranic stories. It has a legend that Savitri brought back the life of her dead husband Satyavan. We often get the impression that the power of love is great in our daily life. He often felt this in the lives of actor Sunil Dutt and actress Nargis. In fact, the marriage of these two was very unexpected for the fans. But Nargis erases all her past with her own hands after marriage and with the justice of 'Sunil Eke Sunil' she revels in his world. Nargis played a major role in building Sunil Dutt's career. Nargis later involved herself in social work. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi took Nargis Dutt to the Rajya Sabha. A son and two daughters blossomed on their samsara vine. While everything was going well, in the mid-seventies, their world took a turn and Nargis succumbed to cancer. Sunil Dutt was shocked by this news but soon recovered himself and decided to give Nargis the best possible treatment in the world. He took Nar

Shailendra Singh: Talented but unlucky singer!

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The career of Shailendra Singh, the playback singer, who attracted the attention of all the fans with the songs in his first film, suddenly took a break. Actually apart from Rafi- Kishore- Mukesh Shailendra Singh has to be mentioned as a different voice. Because he did not copy any of these while singing the playback. But Shailendra Singh, who is a very talented singer, unexpectedly had to take voluntary retirement. why Actually, Shailendra Singh did not want to be a playback singer. He was very handsome in appearance. His house was connected with cinema. Shailendra Singh's father was a PRO in Rajshree Productions. In 1971, Shailendra Singh joined Pune's Film Television Institute to study acting. He was also fond of singing along with acting. But they didn't want to pursue a career in singing! His song was heard by Raj Kapoor's friend Vasant Sathe. When Raj Kapoor was preparing for the film 'Bobby'. At that time they needed a new playback singer for Rishi Kapo

Two remakes of the same movie: one a super hit and the other a super flop!

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Remake is not a new concept in our Indian film industry. Remakes of many Hollywood films are done in Indian languages. Sometimes it is an official remake and sometimes it is also given a cute name of Inspire. Hindi movies are remade in the south, while many movies from the south are made in Hindi. Recently many movies from South are dubbed and released all over India and doing good business too. Sometimes there are two remakes of the same popular movie and they are also released in the same year. In such a case, both accuse each other of theft, but both of them are thieves in a sense! One of these films works and the other flops. Something similar happened in 1980. At that time, the titles of both the remake Hindi movies also started with the same initial. What was this movie? What exactly is happening? In the year 1978, a Telugu film called 'Katakatla Rudraya' was released. The film was directed by Dasari Narayanarao and starred Krishnam Raju, Jayasudha in lead roles. This mo

Hey O Sambha….

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  Ramesh Sippy's 'Sholay' is the most popular movie of the last century! Every actor in this film got special recognition. Even the artist who played a small role became famous all over the world. McMahon was one of them. In 'Sholay' he played the role of Gabbar Singh's partner Samba (Sabma). He had only one dialogue in the entire movie 'pure fifty thousand….' But this single dialogue brought him unprecedented fame. And McMahon's identity became 'Sabma'. But did you know that McMahon didn't want to be in cinema? He wanted to become a cricketer. He came to Mumbai to play cricket. But the twists of fate were such that he could not become a cricketer but earned a good reputation as a character artist in films. Another very important thing is that McMahon saw 'Sholay' almost six months after its release! Why did this happen? There is also an interesting reason for this. That is the story. McMahon (sabma) real name is Mohan Makhijani. 

Superhit remake of a flop movie by Subhash Ghai

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  The trend of remakes in Indian cinema has been around for a long time. The film 'Aurat' released in 1940 was remaked by Mehboob as 'Mother India' in 1957. There are three things in making a remake either the movie is an official remake or the movie is copied or the movie is inspired. Generally successful movies are remixed because there is a guarantee of success. No one usually falls into the trap of making a remake of a flop movie. But Showman Subhash Ghai dared to remake a flop film. Subhash Ghai made a bumper hit movie within a year by taking the story of the movie which could not survive in the theater even for a week. Not only did the movie become a superhit, but the actors also became superstars! It was a big deal. What was this movie? What was the exact story?  The pair of dialogue writer Salim Javed broke up in the eighties. Later both started working independently. After that, Javed Akhtar turned to songwriting from 'Silsila' (1981) while Salim Khan t

A flashback to 'Do Kalia' and the South's influence on Hindi…

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  A lot goes by the unwritten rule of entertainment world “Success is the currency” …. Baahubali (1st and 2nd), Kantara, RRR, Animal, some of the hugely entertaining films in southern regional languages ​​were also dubbed in Hindi, and from the first show, the entire atmosphere changed from chats to discussions on social media, from the first show of the fans, the whole atmosphere changed. In today's global era of Pan India film production, it goes without saying that a film will be released in southern Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, or even one or two dubbed in Hindi. Earlier, however, southern regional language films dubbed into Hindi did not have much of a mainstream presence (a few films like Mani Ratnam's Anjali, Roja being an exception). And many such dub movies seem flamboyant from the posters.(do kaliyan) The journey of southern film production houses in Hindi cinema is quite a flashback. Right from the fifties, sixties, seventies. And he is also successful in diggi