Saturday, September 6, 2008

Dus Numbri


Dus Numbri
Directed by Madan Mohla
Produced by Madan Mohla
Written by S. Ali Raza
Starring Manoj Kumar
Hema Malini
Premnath
Music by Laxmikant Pyarelal
Release date(s) 1976
Country India
Language Hindi

Dus Numbri is a 1976 Hindi film. Produced and directed by Madan Mohla it stars Manoj Kumar, Hema Malini, Pran, Premnath, Bindu, Kamini Kaushal and Om Shivpuri. The music is by Laxmikant Pyarelal. The film was later remade into the Telugu film KD No. 1 (1978) starring N. T. Rama Rao and Jayasudha.The film was the top hit of 1976. The film ranked #10 for the 1970's decade and is also ranked #47 of all time hits.

Nagin (1976 film)

Nagin
Produced by Rajkumar Kohli
Written by Inder Raj Anand
Starring Sunil Dutt
Reena Roy
Jeetendra
Feroz Khan
Sanjay Khan
Vinod Mehra
Kabir Bedi
Yogeeta Bali
Mumtaz
Rekha
Music by Laxmikant Pyarelal
Release date(s) January 19, 1976
Running time 180 mins
Language Hindi
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Nagin (English translation: Female Snake) is a 1976 Bollywood horror fantasy thriller film produced and directed by Rajkumar Kohli. It features a huge ensemble cast including Sunil Dutt, Reena Roy, Jeetendra, Feroz Khan, Sanjay Khan, Vinod Mehra, Kabir Bedi, Rekha, Yogeeta Bali and Mumtaz. The film became a "superhit" at the box office. [1]

The film was later remade in Telugu as Devatalaaraa, Deevinchandi! (1977) with Jayamalini in the "nagin" role. It was also remade in Tamil with Sripriya playing the "nagin" role in the film Neeyam.[2]

Synopsis

A myth goes that when a snake reaches a certain age, they are able to transform into human beings. After a group of six friends (Vijay, Raj, Rajesh, Uday, Kiran and Suraj) stumble upon a pair of lovers they are shocked when one of them named Vijay (Sunil Dutt) (who is a professor researching snakes with ability to turn into humans) tells them that the lovers are in fact snakes who have the ability of changing into humans. Out of the gang, Kiran (Anil Dhawan) does not believe Vijay and then kills the male serpent (Jeetendra) after he reverts to his snake form thinking he was going to attack the female serpent (Reena Roy) who was still in her human form. The female serpent then vows to avenge her lover's death by killing the six men one by one using her powers which give her the ability to transform into any human form.

Cast

Fakira

Fakira
Directed by C. P. Dixit
Produced by N. N. Sippy
Starring Shashi Kapoor
Shabana Azmi
Danny Denzongpa
Music by Ravindra Jain
Cinematography Fali Mistry
Editing by Waman Bhosle
Gurudutt Shirali
Release date(s) 1976
Country Flag of India India
Language Hindi
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Fakira is a 1976 Hindi movie produced by N.N. Sippy and directed by C.P. Dixit. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Asrani, Aruna Irani, Danny Denzongpa, Asit Sen, Ramesh Deo, Madan Puri and Shetty. The music is by Ravindra Jain. The film became a box office hit.[1] The film's team of producer (N.N. Sippy), cast (Shashi Kapoor, Asrani, Danny Denzongpa, Madan Puri) and music composer (Ravindra Jain) had teamed together before for the box office hit Chor Machaye Shor (1974). Fakira was later remade into the Telugu film Dongalaku Donga (1978) starring Krishna and Jayaprada.

Plot

Two small children, who are brothers, lose their parents in a fire. They are harassed by bad men and get separated. They grow up and become criminals. One is played by Shashi Kapoor, while the other is played Danny Denzongpa. They become enemies, not knowing that they are brothers. A policewoman, played by Shabana Azmi, goes undercover in the Shashi Kapoor's criminal group, which includes Asrani and Aruna Irani. She and Shashi Kapoor fall in love, but Aruna Irani doesn't trust as she loves Shashi Kapoor herself. Madan Puri is the main villain.

Awards & Nominations

Kabhi Kabhie

Kabhi Kabhie

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Directed by Yash Chopra
Produced by Yash Chopra
Written by Pamela Chopra
Sagar Sarhadi
Starring Amitabh Bachchan
Shashi Kapoor
Rishi Kapoor
Waheeda Rehman
Rakhee Gulzar
Music by Khayyam
Cinematography Romesh Bhalla
Kay Gee
Editing by Naresh Malhotra
Pran Mehra
Distributed by Yash Raj Films Pvt. Ltd.
Release date(s) 27 January 1976
Running time 177 min.
Country India
Language Hindi/Urdu
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Kabhi Kabhie (English: Sometimes...) is a 1976 Hindi movie, produced and directed by Yash Chopra, starring Waheeda Rehman, Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Raakhee Gulzar, Neetu Singh and Rishi Kapoor. This was Yash Chopra's second directorial film with Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor in the lead roles after Deewar. The movie was a great commercial success with excellent performances and haunting music by Khayyam.

Story

Kabhi Kabhie is a romantic story about a young poet named Amit and a young and beautiful girl named Pooja, who both deeply love each other and decide to get married but destiny has other plans, as Pooja bows to the wishes of her parents and marries Vijay. However Amit drifts away from his poetry in a futile and unsuccessful attempt to leave behind his memories of Pooja by getting married to Anjali. Amit's poetry is best seen in the two versions of his poem "Kabhi Kabhie" - one is the romantic poem Amit sings to Pooja when they are in love, and the other version, rewritten by a shattered Amit since the marriage of Pooja to Vijay, is a bitter, self-hating ode of misery and loss. Sahir Ludhianvi wrote this version of "Kabhi Kabhie" first; the more romantic version was written for the film.

Spanning over to the next generation, Pooja & Vijay's son Vicky and Shobha and R.P's daughter Pinky who love each other but things unravel as Pinky's parents tell her that they adopted her as a baby. So Pinky goes after her biological mother and we see Anjali is her birthmother. Sometimes later Anjali & Amit's daughter Sweetie comes in the picture and Sweetie feels jealous as her mother shows love more to Pinky than to her. Later Vicky comes and meets both the sisters, forming a love triangle between them, and a chain of events bring together old lovers as friends, some 20 years later is what forms the rest of Kabhi Kabhie.

Production

The movie's concept came to Yash Chopra while he was reading a poem by his longtime friend (and also the film's lyricist) Sahir Ludhianvi . Initially, the story just centered on Amit, Pooja, Vijay and Anjali, but Pamela Chopra read an article in a magazine about a woman meeting her adopted child. Yash Chopra thought it good enough to make it a sub-plot in the film. The film was supposed to open with Amit standing under a tree and watching Pooja get married. Traditionally in a Hindi shaadi (wedding) ceremony, there were to be seven pheras (circuits) around the altar; therefore there would be seven different love scenes between Amit and Pooja intercut with each phera. This was deemed too artistic a beginning for the film, so a few days were spent re-shooting the simple scenes of Amit reciting poetry and meeting Pooja.

The movie was shot by Yash Chopra in Kashmir. During filming, all the cast stayed together as a family and contributed to every aspect of the film, even bringing their families with them to Kashmir where they were used as extras in the wedding scenes. It was one of Yash Chopra's happiest experiences and he described the production as a honeymoon. The film had been written with Raakhee in mind, and she had agreed to do it during the making of Daag (1973) but before production started she married Sampooran Singh Gulzar, who wanted her to retire from acting. However, after some persuasion, Yash Chopra Gulzar him to let her do the film.

The title track was later remixed by Bally Sagoo.

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Do Anjaane

Do Anjaane
Directed by Dulal Guha
Produced by Tito
Starring Amitabh Bachchan
Rekha
Prem Chopra
Music by Kalyanji Anandji
Cinematography M Rajaram
Editing by Bimal Roy
Release date(s) 1976
Country India
Language Hindi
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Do Anjaane (English: Two Strangers) is a 1976 Hindi film. Produced by Tito, it is directed by Dulal Guha. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Prem Chopra, Pradeep Kumar, Utpal Dutt, Lalita Pawar and a young pre-stardom Mithun Chakraborty. The music is by Kalyanji Anandji. The film became a "semi-hit" at the box office.[1]


A man (Amitabh Bachchan) is found wounded on railway tracks and when he awakens he has no memory of who he is and doesn't remember anything about his life. Six years later he is living with a wealthy couple and is now named Naresh Dutt.

One day he begins to regain his memory when he watches a film and realises that the actress in the film is related to him somehow. It is then that he discovers the actress in the film is none other than his wife Rekha Roy (Rekha). He finds out that she is now a very successful film actress changing her name to Sunita Devi and her manager is none other than Ranjeet Malik (Prem Chopra) who used to be his best friend.

In flashbacks he remembers that his real name is Amit Roy and Ranjit was the one who attempted to kill him six years earlier by throwing him off the train he was travelling on with Rekha. Amit also discovers that his young son who is now 10 years old has been sent to a boarding school and sets out a plan to regain custody of his son. First however he plans on taking revenge against Ranjit. Amit comes up with a plan to re-enter Rekha and Ranjit's lives by disguising himself as a film producer. He meets with Rekha and Ranjit and offers Rekha the opportunity to act in his new film titled Do Anjaane. Rekha and Ranjit grow suspicious of Naresh Dutt as they start to realise that he bears a striking resemblance to Rekha's supposedly deceased husband Amit Roy and the storyline of his film eerily mirrors Rekha's past life. Will she discover the true identity of Naresh Dutt? and what revenge has Amit/Naresh got planned for Ranjit?

Awards

Cast

Manthan

Manthan
Directed by Shyam Benegal
Produced by Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd.
Written by Verghese Kurien & Shyam Benegal (story)
Vijay Tendulkar (screenplay)
Kaifi Azmi (dialogue)
Starring Smita Patil
Girish Karnad
Naseeruddin Shah
Amrish Puri
Music by Vanraj Bhatia
Cinematography Govind Nihalani
Editing by Bhanudas Divakar
Release date(s) 1976
Running time 134 min
Language Hindi
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The film went on to win, the 1977 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi and National Film Award for Best Screenplay for Vijay Tendulkar, and was also Indian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for 1976.

The title song (whose lyrics go Mero gaam kathaparey) was sung by Preeti Sagar. She won the filmfare award for best female singer for that year. >, the song was later used as the soundtrack for the television commercial for Amul [1].

Overview

The film traces, a small set of poor farmers of Kheda district in Gujarat had the vision and foresight to act in a way that was good for the society and not for the self alone. Under, leaders like local social worker Tribhovandas Patel, who took up the cause of farmer, lead to the formation of Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union. Soon the pattern was repeated in each district of Gujarat, which in turn led to the formation of Amul, a daily cooperative in Anand, Gujarat in 1946, which is today, jointly owned by some 2.6 million milk producers in Gujarat, India[2].

Eventually this led to the initiation of White Revolution of India in 1970, by creating a ‘Nationwide Milk Grid’, and setting up of ‘Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd.(GCMMF) in 1973, whose 5, 00,000 members, jointly financed the film, by donating Rs. 2 each [3][4]. Upon its release, truckloads of farmers came to see 'their’ film, thus making it a box office success [5][3].

Plot

The film traces the origins of the movement through its fictionalized narrative, based around rural empowerment, when a young veterinary surgeon, played by Girish Karnad, a character based on then, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) chief, the 33 year old Dr. Verghese Kurien [6], who joined hands with local social worker, Tribhovandas Patel, which led to the setting up a local milk cooperative, in Anand, Gujarat.

In the film, Dr. Rao, comes to a village, to set up a dairy cooperative, which upsets not just the middlemen, who were hitherto exploiting the villagers, but also the age-old feudal structure of the village, soon an uprising is sparked among the local untouchables, which leads to an economic revolution as well [7].

Cast

Awards and recognition