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Bollywood movie lovers living all over the world are well familiar with “Amar Akbar Anthony”, one of the most famous movies of both Amitabh Bachchan and director Manmohan Desai. Along with its brilliant comic sequences featuring Amitabh and Rishi Kapoor, the movie had Vinod Khanna completing the trilogy in a tough role standing against his biggest competitor of that time, Amitabh Bachchan.
But apart from these many renowned merits, the film also had a rare and amusing fact associated with its melodious music which probably remains the only example in the history of Hindi Film music wherein the four most respected stalwarts of our Indian Cinema performed together in a song for the entire lead star-cast.
The song was “Humko Tumse Ho Gaya Hai Pyar Kya Karein” in which Mohd. Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar all sang together probably for the first and last time.
Mohd. Rafi sang for Rishi Kapoor, Kishore Kumar for Amitabh Bachchan, Mukesh for Vinod Khanna and Lata Mangeshkar for all the three female actresses, Shabana Azmi, Neetu Singh and Parveen Babi.
Moreover this particular song of the movie also stands out of the entire soundtrack as in it the composer Laxmikant Pyarelal very insightfully incorporated the essence of Hindu, Muslim and Christian communities in an unique and intelligent way. Just listen to the western arrangements in the start of the song with all the strings and a choir singing in the interlude generating an Anthony kind of impact. Then in the middle, the use of Duff, giving it an ethnic kind of traditional feel representing Amar. And later on the insertion of Qawwali beats with the group claps to suit the character of the naughty Akbar. Simply an outstanding achievement by the director, music directors, singers, choreographers and all the actors involved in the song.
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A fellow reader visiting the site informed me about an amazing fact about the fame, impact and magic of Hindi Film Music spread all over the globe.
The fact relates to a Manmohan Desai Hit film released in 1973 with the title “Aa Gale Lag Ja” which had Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, Shatrughan Sinha and Om Prakash in the lead roles. The movie is reportedly very famous in the region of Algeria since 1975 and shown on Algerian TV more than once in a year. And out of their pure love for the film the people of Algeria have also renamed it as “DJanitou”.
Just search at Youtube with this name or watch the following video to know the truth where a person is singing the song from the movie in his own regional style,
“Tera Mujhse Hai Pehle Ka Naata Koi, Yun Hi Nahin Dil Lubhaata Koi, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na”
The video rightly proves the Power of Bollywood Music hugely famous all over the globe.
And thanks Fatiha for sharing this valuable info with us.
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It is not a widely known fact that Imtiaz Ali, the famous Bollywood director acclaimed for his Hit love stories, “Jab We Met” & “Love Aaj Kal” also had a short acting stint, early in his career, which happened almost a decade ago.
It was the time when Hindi Cinema had just started knocking at the door of a “New Age Thought Process” and many new innovative directors were searching their way to break into the historical default mode of the Hindi Film Industry. Anurag Kashyap was one of those few thinking directors, who was then working on his authentic project on the cause and effects of 1993 Mumbai bomb-blasts titled “Black Friday”.
And this was only the movie in which Imtiaz Ali played a small yet important character, who enters in the script towards its climax. If you have seen ‘Black Friday’ then you must have recognized him. But if you somehow missed to spot the Hit director in it, then watch it again, as he was the one who played the character of Yakub Memon, the brother of master-mind Tiger Memon in the movie.
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I was recently introduced to this great piece of art proudly representing the Marathi Cinema wave in the country. Directed by Prahlad Keshav Atre, “Shaymchi Aai” (meaning Shyam’s mother) was released in 1953 and was widely acclaimed by both young and old at the time of its release. Based on a book with the same title written by Sane Guruji in Marathi, the film revolves around the innocent and divine relationship between a child Shyam and his mother ‘Aai’, who teaches him the essential lessons of life with her true love and affection.
In order to make you relate with this old black & white regional classic in a more modern way, I would like to associate it with two immensely famous movies of Hindi Cinema, namely “Mother India” from the past and “Taare Zameen Par” from the current times.
“Shyamchi Aai” made be remember “Mother India” as it also has a similar kind of strong character of a mother (like Nargis), who is willing to fight all the tough times of poverty and grief along with her loving husband and children. She is soft as a flower petal, yet strong as a mountain, having the spirit to face every storm of life with her great courage. And the priceless lessons she teaches her young children in those hard times, make the movie an essential watch for all lovers of good and meaningful cinema. In fact the well written scenes between the mother and the child can easily be rated as one of the best sequences depicting the most respected relationship in the mankind. Certainly both the writer and the director, along with Vanamala playing the mother, truly deserve all the praises they received for their splendid efforts. And for this reason, I would readily like to call “Shyamchi Aai” as the famous “Mother India” of the Marathi Cinema.
Now, coming to “Taare Zameen Par”, the movie reminded me of this recent masterpiece mainly because of the brilliant act performed by the child actor Madhav Vaze, playing the character of Shyam in it. The kid undoubtedly delivers one of the finest acts by a child artist in the history of Indian Cinema till date. His confidence, style and conviction is simply worth watching. Actually it’s his performance in the movie which enhances the impact of the pain felt by her mother on screen to many folds. In other words after Darsheel Safary in TZM, or rather before him, it was Madhave Vaze performing as Shyam in “Shaymchi Aai”, who was able to set his own new benchmarks in the Indian Cinema way back in the year 1953. In reality, the innocent mannerisms of Shyam keep walking down the memory lanes of your mind, even days after you have watched this famous classic. And that’s the magic of this simple and impressive movie from P. K. Atre.
The movie has numerous scenes teaching the right values of life to the viewer and the sequences also posses the power to transform. For instance, there is one particular scene in the film, where the family is facing their tough days of poverty, but still having a decent dinner together. Now the mother, who has cooked the food, has forgotten to put salt in the dish. But everyone in the family goes on eating the food calmly with no complaints of any sort. Even the child Shyam is having his food, though he refuses to eat that dish, but still is saying nothing about the salt. The moment the mother herself eats the dish, she comes to know that there is no salt and then she asks her husband that why nobody said anything about it. And then the husband answers, “You have made this food with so much love and affection and have taken great pain to give us this lovely dinner in our days of poverty. Then how can we complain of anything to you about your cooking. Instead we are grateful that you are here with us to take care of our hunger and provide us this tasty food.” Now if that cannot teach us anything then nothing can.
The other gem to cherish in “Shyamchi Aai” is its melodious music by Vasant Desai. Though I didn’t understand the language, still I enjoyed all its songs immensely, especially the ones filmed on all the children playing in the school.
The movie was the first film in India, to be awarded The First National Award or Golden Lotus Award for The Best Film in 1954. And the fact says it all for its cinematic importance.
Being a regional flick, it may not appeal to the people, who have no time to watch the old time gems and might not be appreciated by the hip generation which is more interested in living their lives at the maximum speed. But if you love watching black & white classics of different regions, have the patience to sit through its old age pace and want to enjoy a hugely famous landmark classic of Indian Cinema, then just look out for the DVD of “Shaymchi Aai”. It is worth your precious time in this fast progressing monetary world and has some great teachings which must be passed on to all the young kids roaming around in our houses in their playful moods.
Directed By Prahlad Keshav Atre Music : Vasant Desai
(The DVD of "Shaymchi Aai" is available at Induna.com.)
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The movie has numerous scenes teaching the right values of life to the viewer and the sequences also posses the power to transform. For instance, there is one particular scene in the film, where the family is facing their tough days of poverty, but still having a decent dinner together. Now the mother, who has cooked the food, has forgotten to put salt in the dish. But everyone in the family goes on eating the food calmly with no complaints of any sort. Even the child Shyam is having his food, though he refuses to eat that dish, but still is saying nothing about the salt. The moment the mother herself eats the dish, she comes to know that there is no salt and then she asks her husband that why nobody said anything about it. And then the husband answers, “You have made this food with so much love and affection and have taken great pain to give us this lovely dinner in our days of poverty. Then how can we complain of anything to you about your cooking. Instead we are grateful that you are here with us to take care of our hunger and provide us this tasty food.” Now if that cannot teach us anything then nothing can.