[anjan_c2007]

Guru Dutt's picture from an early film of his.

[anjan_c2007]

Thats the great flute player and instrumentalist Mr Suman Raj, who worked with most of the great composers of Hindi films of the yesteryears including Naushad, C Ramchandra, Vasant Desai, O.P.Nayyar, Madan Mohan,Shankar Jaikishan, Laxmikant Pyarelal, R.D Burman and many others.

The mystery sound effect in he song "gumnaam hai koi" from the film Gumnaam was created by him (for maestros Shankar Jaikishan) using a violin bow and a wood cutting saw.

The car featured here is in all probability a Hillman Minx, as the steering wheel colour and the body bulge below the front "A" pillar and quarter glass is prominent. I may be corrected too !



(picture and some text from Imprints and Images of Indian film Music FB page)

[Stanher]

Originally Posted by anjan_c2007

Thats the great flute player and instrumentalist Mr Suman Raj
The car featured here is in all probability a Hillman Minx, as the steering wheel colour and the body bulge below the front "A" pillar and quarter glass is prominent. I may be corrected too !

I suspect tis actually a Standard Super 10!

[anjan_c2007]

Legendary Tamil singer T.M. Soundararajan's picture with a Mark 3. The registration number is TMS 1525.



(picture from Imprints and Images of Indian Film Music FB page)

[vinay kamath]

there's a classy w115 Mercedes in the last 30 seconds of this melodious Kannada song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_J1RKr1XIA

[anjan_c2007]

Thats Mr Sawan Kumar in the role as a driver in the film Naunihal from the mid 1960's.
Mr Sawan Kumar later married music director Ms Usha Khanna. He became a producer-director later and made films like "Hawas" and some more in the 1970's.The Mohammed Rafi song "teri galiyon mein na rakhenge kadam, aaj ke baad" was from this film.Ms Usha Khanna was its music director.

[vinay kamath]

Malayalam movie interestingly titled " Bangalore Days " now in theatres!

[karlosdeville]

Shyam found a rare find in the 1969 movie Shatranj, a bright red Austin Healey roadster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPXAyvabM54

Though the quality is poor, I seem to make out the registration as BMF 7403. It is of interest to note that Sheik Mukhtar's Orcha V16 Caddy was BMF 7409.

Two such cars survive to the best of my knowledge, one MMH regd and one KRV regd. Both are now in the South. (EDIT - a third car, WBG, now RJ 14 also survives)

While looking for this movie I found another Shatranj but possibly from the 90s. It too features a red two door convertible, but a decidedly less glamorous Beetle convertible. The regn is probably dummy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyR5kFveC7k

[karlosdeville]

Originally Posted by harit

This is a Filmfare cover of 1963, Shashi kapoor in a cool convertible.

The car also apparently made a movie appearance, seen in this lobby card for the movie Dil Ne Pukara

[anjan_c2007]

Kishore Kumar on a 1950's American car.



(picture from Imprints of Indian Film Music FB page)

[karlosdeville]

Originally Posted by anjan_c2007

Kishore Kumar on a 1950's American car.

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(picture from Imprints of Indian Film Music FB page)

That should be a 55/56 Chevy.

[anjan_c2007]

A video of the song from Waris (1969) "kabhi kabhi aisa bhi hota hai..." by Mohammed Rafi and Asha B. featuring Jeetendra and Hema Malini.
The Fiat 1100 D seen here is in its oldest Italian avatar from 1965/66. The car appears to be repainted, as there were no factory painted two tone colours then from PAL.
The noteworthy feature is that the car has OE ash trays the rear doors, that was only available in the Deluxe BE models later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToAPw-xviLc

[anjan_c2007]

A picture title from the early 1970's - the Fiat 1100 D looks new and is camaflouged by the titles.



(picture posted by friend Mr Ramnath Iyer on FB)

[Stanher]

Originally Posted by anjan_c2007

A picture title from the early 1970's - the Fiat 1100 D looks new and is camaflouged by the titles.

(picture posted by friend Mr Ramnath Iyer on FB)

Any idea what film this was btw?

[vinay kamath]

the Dodge Kingsway GDA 247 in "Finding Fanny"