"ASHIANA" & "SHABNAM" the superhit B&W movies of Pakistan
Posted Feb 13th, 2009 at 07:34 AM by arjay
"ASHIANA" produced under the banner of F&Y MOVIES was released in 1966. Typical family drama involving SAAS-BAHU enemity and a joint family getting bereft--the movie was SUPER DUPER HIT. I saw it 6 times at the famous NISHAT cinema-Karachi. The movie had BEST songs, scenerios (murree) and enjoyable comedy by the henpecked husband played by LEHRI opp; Asha Posley. The cast : Kamal, Zeba, Rukhsana, Habib, Lehri, Asha Posley, Faizee, Samia Naz (playing a vamp!), Asad Jaffery and the sinsiter sister in law to Rukhsana & Zeba..played by Nabila.
This song was picturized on CHARRA PAANI-MURREE Road in 1964. Incidently I am a witness to the shoot of Kamal & Zeba arguing about the Chevy Belair car Zeba is seen driving...which comes right after the song. I personally Syed Kamal as he comes from MEERUT..my mom's nanheeyaal...and kamal's mom..BUGNEE Khala was a close friend to my mom.
Enjoy the song..and all I wrote on the history of the movie...comes from memory and not some scrap book ! (Raju)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ga9XEwn10
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"SHABNAM" was a super hit movie of mid 60's. I was in school then. Saw it in Rivoli cinema. The cast was huge; Muhammad Ali, Zeba, Kamal, Rani, Lehri, Kumar..all top stars then. It had hit songs. It was directed by Rashid Mukhtar. Songs were mainly sung by Rushdi. Location was mostly Lahore. This song takes you from Gulberg to Lahore Airport..Kamal rides his bicycle to receive his love Zeba coming from Rawalpindi. See the good old days of such meek traffic...on the famous CANAL which is now hardly big enough to crawl even..that we have so many cars plying. Many do not know that this movie had TWO endings. The first release saw RANI laying her life for her cousin KAMAL...at the hands of LEHRI...who played a villian for first time. The viewers strongly protested the ending that a remake was done where RANI survives. Aisa bhi huwa hai Pakistani filmoun mein..jo bohat kum loge jaante hein ! Enjoy the song by clicking on;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdmSRl8eE0s
This song was picturized on CHARRA PAANI-MURREE Road in 1964. Incidently I am a witness to the shoot of Kamal & Zeba arguing about the Chevy Belair car Zeba is seen driving...which comes right after the song. I personally Syed Kamal as he comes from MEERUT..my mom's nanheeyaal...and kamal's mom..BUGNEE Khala was a close friend to my mom.
Enjoy the song..and all I wrote on the history of the movie...comes from memory and not some scrap book ! (Raju)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ga9XEwn10
And...
"SHABNAM" was a super hit movie of mid 60's. I was in school then. Saw it in Rivoli cinema. The cast was huge; Muhammad Ali, Zeba, Kamal, Rani, Lehri, Kumar..all top stars then. It had hit songs. It was directed by Rashid Mukhtar. Songs were mainly sung by Rushdi. Location was mostly Lahore. This song takes you from Gulberg to Lahore Airport..Kamal rides his bicycle to receive his love Zeba coming from Rawalpindi. See the good old days of such meek traffic...on the famous CANAL which is now hardly big enough to crawl even..that we have so many cars plying. Many do not know that this movie had TWO endings. The first release saw RANI laying her life for her cousin KAMAL...at the hands of LEHRI...who played a villian for first time. The viewers strongly protested the ending that a remake was done where RANI survives. Aisa bhi huwa hai Pakistani filmoun mein..jo bohat kum loge jaante hein ! Enjoy the song by clicking on;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdmSRl8eE0s
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Such nice entry and that as a blog Arjay. You should start a thread. Some of the old timers like me can relate to the talk about Showbiz of late 60's 70's and 80's than post 80's era.
Very nice songs, I think I heard those before but never saw the video.
and about traffic, .. even some of the Waheed Murad's songs that were shot on the roads of Karachi (near teen talwar) brings such a nostaligia of beautiful, simple and peaceful karachiPosted Feb 13th, 2009 at 12:49 PM by TLK
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Good stuff raju uncle :)Posted Feb 13th, 2009 at 08:49 PM by Aliyish
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