Timeless Indian Melodies

(Author: Alex Almeida) In the 60s our film industry started shooting on foreign location which was a trend started by the Kapoor’s . The earlier films shot abroad were Singapore(1960), Sangam(1964), An Evening In Paris(1967), Night In London(1967), Around The World(1967), Spy In Rome(1968) and many more. Love In Tokyo one of the biggest hit of the 60s was another film shot at foreign location where people for the first time witnessed the metro railways and the Japanese culture.  When director Pramod Chakraborthy left for Tokyo with his unit, all the songs of the film were recorded except for the title song Love In Tokyo as Mohammed Rafi was out of the country. Pramod Chakraborthy left for Tokyo with an intention that the title song would be recorded by Mohammed Rafi when he is back and the tape would be sent to Tokyo. He began shooting at his location by taking some aerial shots from helicopter but there was still not update of Rafi returning to Mumbai. Pramod Chakrabor

(Author: Alex Almeida) The weekend was just beginning and early morning while still on my bed got a WhatsApp message which was very tragic and shocking to me and many others who got the news which said that Marathi superstar  Ravindra Mahajani  found dead in his apartment. The name needed no introduction to the Marathi audiences while die hard lovers of Hindi cinema will still remember him for acting in few Hindi films. What the audiences most remembered about Ravindra Mahajani rather than being a superstar is his personality as he was considered as the most and only handsome hero of Marathi cinema till date. He was often referred as Vinod Khanna of Marathi films due to his resemblance with him.While his competitor  Ashok Saraf  also mentioned that he was one of the most handsome heroes ever produced by Marathi industry. Ravindra Mahajani was born on 7th October 1949 in  Belgaum  in  Karnataka . He had the charming personality of being a hero and hence decided to try his luck in films

(Author: Alex Almeida) The favorite season of India and most of Mumbaikar’s is back the lovely monsoon.The time when season arrives it’s a common thing for people to share a post on the classic song Rim jihm gire saawan . The hit song from the film Manzil (1979) where we see a younger Amitabh Bachchan wearing a suit and beautiful Moushmi Chatterjee in chiffon saree enjoying the rains of the city at different locations in background of the song. The making of the song has lot of interesting stories to tell. It was not the artificial rain as usually used in film shoots but was actually pouring in Mumbai when the song was shot and both the lead actors were totally drenched. Amitabh Bachchan being taller than Mosuhmi Chatterjee had to match the steps while walking on the streets in the rain while he had to take smaller steps to match with his costar. But sometimes it would happen that Moushmi Chatterjee would feel she is left behind and would go further and camera would fol

(Author: Alex Almeida) In 70s Rakesh Roshan didn’t have a successful career as hero. But in late 80s he stepped into direction and became one of the top director, In mid 90s he decided to make a revenge drama based on reincarnation of two brothers. To get the chemistry perfect between two brothers Rakesh Roshan decided to cast Deol brothers Sunny and Bobby in lead. But Sunny declined the offer as Bobby was gearing up for his debut in home production Barsaat (1995). While Sunny was a star and felt working together at this point will sideline Bobby. He then cast Shahrukh Khan who had recently gained stardom and Ajay Devgan as two brother’s film was then titled Kaynaath . But Ajay Devgan later opted out of the film as he wanted to do Sharukh Khan’s role and for other reasons. Rakesh Roshan then approached Salman Khan who was having a dull phase in his career as in last two years most of his films had tasted dust at the box office. He was shooting for Hum Aapke Hain Kaun