Helen Week - Movie Mahal: Helen

Welcome to Helen Week - Day 2

Movie Mahal:Helen was telecast in the UK on Channel 4 in 1989. A very, very special thanks goes to our friend Asli Jat for making it available after all these years for this blog.

During the course of the show, Helen looks back fondly at her life and career and shares many interesting stories:
How did she break into the business?
Who was her favorite dancer?
What movie revived her career?
Watch Movie Mahal:Helen and find out. :)

Helen Week - Night is Lovely (Slideshow)

Welcome to Helen Week - Day 1CHEERS!
"Night is Lovely" is a Helen song (vocal by Asha Bhosle) from Pyar Ka Sapna (1969) that has been edited out of the the VCD and DVD releases. So, I decided to create a slideshow using a mp3 of the song with screenshots (color enhanced and denoised) of Helen's scenes from the movie. Lets hope that one day the missing video surfaces. Until then, this is the next best thing. Those who have been lucky enough to have seen the excised video say it's one of Helen's best. Update: The long lost video has been found on an old VHS tape and is available for all to see Here

For her role in Pyar Ka Sapna, Helen has long blond hair and light blue eyes and looks beautiful. See screenshot below.


Night is lovely and so is Helen

So, without further ado, here is the Night is Lovely slideshow. Hope you enjoy. :)

Helen Week - October 15-21

In anticipation of Helen's upcoming birthday on October 21, I will celebrate it everyday for a week with special posts that I'm sure everyone will enjoy. Why a week? Because, for Helen, one day simply isn't enough :D

Video of the week

The adorable Mumtaz at her sexiest.

Lets see...can anyone guess the name of the song and movie?

Mumtaz - Bollywood Sex Kitten from Mister Naidu on Vimeo.

And here's a song that may have been the inspiration for Mumtaz's song - "Christine" by Miss X. Thanks to Geoff for pointing this out.

Bollywood Movie Title Music CD

This collection contains movie title music from the 60's, 70's and 80's. Most, if not all, of the music is unavailable on CDs or vinyl LPs. The music was taken from the opening credits of DVDs and converted to mp3 at 256kbps.  

I previously released  a DVD of videos of movie title music called Bollywood's Best Movie Title Music  from which most of the music for this compilation was taken. For this mp3 collection, I added 4 really cool tunes that weren't on my DVD: Kaalia by R.D. Burman, Shankar Dada by Sonik Omi, Faraar and Chor Ke Ghar Chor by Kalyanji-Anandji.

All of the music was normalized, corrected, and edited to the best of my ability for optimal listening pleasure. :D

This is the extended, improved and final version. Now with 36 tracks and 78 minutes of music! :)

So play it on your computer (sounds great on Itunes or Winamp), portable media player or burn it on a CD and play it at home or in your car!
Get it Here at Mediafire or at Bwtorrents in the "Music Torrents - Audio Compilations" section.

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Enjoy!

Govinda - Radha Krishna Temple

Produced by Beatle George Harrison in 1970, he also played guitar and harmonium. His lush production and arrangement added greatly to the enjoyment of this immensely infectious and beautiful song. It was released as a single and spent 8 weeks on the British charts and eventually reached number 23.

Hare Krishna!




And here are 2 more lovely YouTube slideshows of the song:

Kismat - Opening Credits

Enjoy the cool movie title music by O.P. Nayyar that plays during the opening credits for Kismat.

More movie title music can be found on my Bollywood's Best Movie Title Music DVD compilation.



Visit Music From The Third Floor for the original vinyl soundtrack album!

The Laxmi Chhaya DVD

Here's the latest DVD by Tom Daniel. Its an excellent compilation of Laxmi's best songs and is available for all at Mediafire. Highly recommended!

Get the DVD Here.
Read all about the making of the DVD in the PDF file. Get it Here.

Jhuk Gaya Aasman - Title theme

Here's one of the best Bollywood themes ever: "Kaun Hai Jo Sapno Mein Aaya" from "Jhuk Gaya Aasman"  by Shankar Jaikishan. Thanks to eratini for alerting me to the song. I would have put it on the Bollywood's Best Movie Title Music DVD if I had known about it earlier. Its an inspired adaptation of Elvis Presley's "Marguerita." Enjoy!