Johar played triplets, and, beating Mehmood, won the Best Comedian award.Īrjun Hingorani began his KKK fixation with this hit action drama featuring Dharmendra and Babita, which went on to his last film in 2003. It brought into focus ‘vamp’ Padma Khanna, was distributor-turned-producer Gulshan Rai’s smash-hit debut and heralded the comeback of Premnath-as a villain.
The career-biggest hit of writer-director Vijay Anand and actor Dev Anand was the top hit of 1970, and did a record business of Rs.
The uncanny part was that his three characters of grandfather, father and son were similar to Prithviraj, Raj and Randhir Kapoor, even though Kal Aaj Aur Kal, Randhir’s debut, came 18 months later! What’s more, Randhir’s future and near-permanent voice, Kishore Kumar, was the young Mehmood’s playback singer!īased on Alexander Dumas’ The Count Of Monte Cristo, the vendetta drama introduced Raakhee opposite Dharmendra and was even dubbed in Malayalam by Rajshri Productions. Jeetendra’s first home production was noted for Hindi cinema’s first triple role-by comedian Mehmood.
Kaifi Azmi wrote the lines as well as the hit lyrics. This Chetan Anand-directed fable was the first Indian film to be made entirely in verse. This was the first (and hit) reel union of real-life couple Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu, and the introduction by composers Kalyanji-Anandji of Mahendra Kapoor as an alternative voice for the former. It also featured Neetu Singh in her last appearance as Baby Sonia. 50 years down, he is known as a sure-shot hit director and father of superstar Hrithik Roshan. The film was notable for Rakesh Roshan’s debut (Rajendra Kumar recommended him to director T. Ramsay thus launched Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche (1972), which worked big-time and inspired him and his seven sons (Ramsay Brothers) to be India’s pioneers in horror films. The film flopped but the audience loved the sequence and producer F.U. This Vishram Bedekar-directed film starring Prithviraj Kapoor, Mumtaz, Shatrughan Sinha and Helen had a sequence in which Prithviraj as a thief wore a devil’s mask and terrified Mumtaz. Sanjeev Kumar teamed up with Tanuja’s elder sister Nutan. Interestingly, both Chetna and Dastak were released in most of India in 1971!Ī South potboiler, it featured Usha Uthup (as Usha Iyer, her maiden name)’s first Hindi song, ‘Jogan pritam ki’, which was not a pop number and was thus disowned by the singer. Madan Mohan and Sanjeev Kumar won National awards respectively for their music and acting. It consolidated her sex-symbol tag just because this film also brought in a powerful social angle of a housewife living amidst the red-light area and assumed to be a sex-worker. This conversational song became a chartbuster while being shot in Srinagar and word spread long before it was released as a part of the film’s album by lyricist Anand Bakshi and composers Laxmikant-Pyarelal.Īffected by this was famed novelist Rajinder Singh Bedi’s maiden film that was actually Rehana’s first signed film. Om Prakash film is also famous for the cult song ‘Accha To Hum Chalte Hai’ sung by Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar. And all these changes and shifts, and some others, came through these interesting and mostly successful movies.Ī candyfloss romance between Asha Parekh and Rajesh Khanna, with Vinod Khanna as the baddie, this J. And Rishi Kapoor, Raakhee, Rekha, Navin Nischol, Anil Dhawan and Rehana Sultan made their debuts, while Shatrughan Sinha got his first featured role and Feroz Khan entered the A-list.įilms based on famous foreign sources, inspiration for the Ramsays to turn to horror, and legendary first or last associations of note were all a part of this year.
Dharmendra-Hema Malini, Rajesh Khanna-Mumtaz and Rajesh Khanna-Sharmila Tagore were the three hit pairs that became consolidated.
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