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50 Years of Parichay

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  Parichay  is a 1972 film released on 20th October. The film was  partially inspired by the 1965 movie  The Sound of Music . It is directed by Gulzar who changed the looks ans screen image of Jeetendra who by that time was called the Jumping Jack. It is a feel-good film unlike other 70s Masala Movies with a hero who bashes people. It stars Jeetendra, Jaya Bhaduri and Pran in the lead role, Sanjeev Kumar and Vinod Khanna are as guest and special appearance  The story is about a misunderstanding between a father Rai Saheb and son Sanjeev Kumar who wants to pursue a career in singing and also marry the girl of his choice but his father was not agreeble so Sanjeev Kumar leaves the home and maries the girl of his choice. Unfortunately, his wife dies and soon he also is diagnosed terminally ill. After he dies, his father Rai Saheb(Pran) brings home the grandchildren to his palatial home but the children are quite rebel and against their grandfather. The eld...

277. Japanese film director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s fifteenth feature film “Broker” (2022), based on his original screenplay, set in South Korea and made in the Korean language: “Finding ourselves and each other”

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    "'Thank you for being born.' - A single sentence that touches the audience in such a way that entire films rarely can. When every character, no matter how small or large, is intricately layered, simultaneously fractured and in the end so lovingly developed, that's cinema. Great cinema. This film is a journey. One filled with longings, with decisions, with detours. Sometimes it is precisely these detours that we must take in life to find ourselves and each other. And we found a bit of ourselves in this film." --Citation of the Best International film award for Broker at the Munich film festival T wo contemporary Japanese directors Hirokazu Kore-eda and Naomi Kawase are fascinating filmmakers because both make wonderful, distinctive films, both write their own original screenplays and most of their tales revolve around relationships involving parents and children, orphans and adoption. Sometimes the parents are old and dying, sometimes they are young and experi...

50 Years of Shor (1972)

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  Released on 15th September 1972, Shor  is a beautiful collage of emotions.    A tale of a father and son coping after a tragic accident, and how their misfortunes affect them.The film was  written, produced and directed and edited by  Manoj Kumar , who also plays the lead role in the film. The highlight of this film is its music, composed by  Laxmikant-Pyarelal.    “Ek Pyaar Ka Naghma Hai”, written by Santosh Anand and sung in different versions by Lata Mangeshkar and Mukesh. It plays throughout the film, and retains its chartbuster status till date.  The  other songs, like “Jeevan Chalne Ka Naam” and “Paani Re Paani” stand out for their sheer brilliance.   Manoj Kumar  who plays  Shankar   loses his wife Nanda  in an accident. She dies while saving her son (Deepak). , Deepak loses his voice. Shankar contacts doctor to get his son's voice again; however, doctors suggests him to undergo surgery to get his s...

Asha Bhonsle- The World's Most Recorded Artist.

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  Asha Bhosle (Born on 8th Sep 1933) made h er Hindi film debut when she sang the song "Saawan Aaya" for  Hansraj Behl 's  Chunariya  (1948) but before that  she sang her first film song '"Chala Chala Nav Bala" for the  Marathi film Majha  Bal  (1943).   She  had sung over 12,000 songs, s he was officially acknowledged by the  Guinness Book of World Records  as the most recorded artist in music history Initially, she sang songs  in  low-budget  B- or C-grade films. She  used to get the assignments only when reputed female singers of that time like  Geeta Dutt ,  Shamshad Begum , and  Lata Mangeshkar refuse  singing for the bad girls and  vamps , or songs.  The first time she sang in a big banner film was in Bimal Roy's Parinnta 1953  The song of that film  " Gore gore haathon me mehndi racha ke"..but none of the songs was picturised on the heroine of the film Meena Ku...