Posts Tagged ‘Sahir Ludhianvi’

  • Dil Bole Hadippa: Khoob ladee mardanee Rani but…
    “From woman man is born; within woman man is conceived; to woman he is engaged and married; women becomes his friend; when his women dies, he seeks another woman; to woman he is bound. So why call her bad? From her kings are born. Without woman there would be no one at all”. (Guru Nanak) That was said by Sikh Guru but in reality today’s Punjab suffers most alarmingly...
    by Rk at September 24th, 2009 at 01:09 am
  • Chaudhvin ka chand ho : A tribute to Shakeel Badayuni
    iView Author: Akshay Manwani (New Delhi, India) Email: akshay.manwani [at]gmail[dot]com Content : Chaudhvin ka chand ho : A tribute to Shakeel Badayuni The word ‘Shakeel’ in the Urdu language literally translates to beauty. No coincidence then that in 1960, Shakeel Badayuni, the great lyricist from yesteryear, penned perhaps the finest ode to the feminine form through...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 20th, 2009 at 08:04 am
  • Of Love, Ghazal, Our Cinema and Beyond
    iView Author: Ram V (Bangalore, India) Email: shrey[dot]dna[at]gmail[dot]com Of Love, Ghazal, Our Cinema and Beyond Chali simt-e-ghaib se ik hawa Chaman suroor ka jal gaya Magar ik shaak-e-nihaal-e-gham, jise dil kahte hain, hari rahi tahaiyyur-e-khabar-e-ishq sun, na junoon raha na pari rahi Na To tu rah na mein rahi, jo rahi bekhabari rahi ( From the direction...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 20th, 2009 at 09:03 pm
  • Remembering Sahir Ludhianvi !
    iView Author: AKSHAY MANWANI (New Delhi/India) Email: akshaymanwani [at] gmail [dot] com Remembering Sahir Ludhianvi ! On the 8th of March 2009, Sahir Ludhianvi’s 88th birth anniversary shall be celebrated. Or maybe not, for in the annals of Indian cinema, Sahir is a forgotten name. This for a man who gave Hindi Cinema some of its finest quality by way of...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 6th, 2009 at 08:03 pm
  • To the dead poets
    iView Author: Varun Grover (Mumbai, India) Email: varun[dot]grover26[at] gmail.com To the dead poets When was the last time you heard a line like ‘Jis kavi ki kalpana mein zindagi ho prem-geet, uss kavi ko aaj tum nakaar do’? I mean, in the Hindi Cinema ‘geet’ format? Just an off-the-cuff guess would be at least 30-years ago…and add...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 4th, 2009 at 03:03 pm
  • Dhool ka Phool => Tamanna – Mr Bhatt, how Pooja Bhatt had got admission in School
    Time was different when Dhool ka Phhool (1959) was released. Films were different, writings were different, lyrics were different and values were different. Dhool ka Phool covers the pathos of the life of a child who was abandoned by his mother because her lover made her pregnant but did/could not marry her. Rajendra Kumar sings a good song Tere Pyar ka Asra Chahta hun...
    by Rk at June 16th, 2008 at 10:06 am
  • Imagine Bollywood Without Bhaiyyas & Biharis !
    He was trembling, no shivering– no, no quivering– no,no shaking !..“Moss, I am leaving ! Moley toh, idhar bahut risk ho gaya hai!! Mete, ye shahar ab rehne kay liye theek nahin!!!” I was wondering at his nervousness but wondered more about the gibberish he was mumbling..And then he expressed his real fears..He was earlier scared by Raj Thackeray’s tirade...
    by krysh at May 22nd, 2008 at 01:05 pm