Archive for May 2011
Tu hi saagar tu hi kinaaraa
Posted by: Atul on: May 23, 2011
“Sankalp” (1975) is not a movie that too many people today are familiar with. It was a small budget movie that sank without trace.
Bhor aayi gayaa andhiyaaraa
Posted by: Atul on: May 23, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. It has been variously said that there is a song in Hindi movies for practically any occasion, any situation, any profession, in short, there is a song for probably just anything. One just has to [...]
Har gali mein hain bageeche
Posted by: Atul on: May 23, 2011
“Wahaan” (1937) is a very old Hindi movie which few people know about today. Many legends of Hindi movies had acted in this movie. Names like Chandramohan,Shanta Apte,Leela Chitnis,Prahlad,Ulhas,Master Chhotu etc had figured in this movie.
Ek tera sahaaraa
Posted by: Atul on: May 23, 2011
I am aware of a movie called “Shamaa” (1961) which was a musical blockbuster. There was another movie of this name which was released in 1946. I have in fact discussed one song from “Shama” (1946) in the past.
Achchaa unhen dekhaa hai beemaar huyin aankhen
Posted by: Atul on: May 22, 2011
- In: Char Bait song | qawwali
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Hindi movies can sometimes educate us on the existence of rare art forms. For instance, how many of us know about the art form called “Charbait” ? I came to know about this term thanks to this song from “Shankar Hussain” (1976).
Maula Salim Chishti
Posted by: Atul on: May 22, 2011
- In: qawwali
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“Garm Hawaa” (1973) was a critically acclaimed movie of its time on a sensitive matter (lives and travails of Indian Muslims). It had Geeta Sidharth, Balraj Sahni, Jalal Agha, Farooq Sheikh etc in lead roles.
Hai kuchh bhi nahin o my darling
Posted by: Atul on: May 22, 2011
Rajesh Khanna made his acting debut with “Aakhri Khat” (1966). and what a fine debut it was too ! The movie is a critically acclaimed movie and it has the ability to movie common movie watchers. In fact, the movie can move the movie goers so much that many of the more sensitive ones (like [...]
Jaa ri jaa jaa nindiyaa jaa
Posted by: Atul on: May 22, 2011
“Jhaanjhar” (1953) is a movie which is lost to movie watchers because all its prints were damaged in a fire. Now all that is left of the movie is its music. And what wonderful music this movie had. The songs of this movie were great craze among music lovers those days.
Tu har ek museebat ka muqaabla kar re
Posted by: Atul on: May 22, 2011
In Hindi movies, most songs are picturised on the lead actors. But then there are certain songs which are either background songs or songs picturised on lesser actors. These songs are often sung by part time singers who are better known for some other activities in movies. For instance, these singers may be better known [...]
Bade sakhaare baba hamaare gaye bajariyaa ko
Posted by: Atul on: May 22, 2011
If one needs to buy items, what does one do today ? One just goes to the local market/ shopping mall and gets that. But it was not always all this simple.
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