Archive for May 2011
Hai tere saath meri wafaa
Posted by: Atul on: May 20, 2011
Most people will agree that one Priya Rajwansh is more than enough for one movie. But Chetan Anand obviously did not think so. In “Hindustan Ki Kasam” (1973), she plays double role. In this movie, she plays two sisters separated at childhood (what an original idea ! ). One girl ends up in India and [...]
Aandhi aaye ke toofaan koi gham nahin
Posted by: Atul on: May 20, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. The general memory of the 1969 movie, Saat Hindustaani, is linked to the fact that it was the debut movie for Amitabh Bachhan. However, in my mind, this movie is more associated with the writer [...]
Dil gayaa to gayaa dilruba mil gayaa
Posted by: Atul on: May 20, 2011
I have discussed as many as seven songs from “Shamaa” (1961) and what fabulous songs they are. There are more lovely songs in this movie, but they are apparently not available on youtube. So I had to do dig deeper in order to come up with the missing songs from this movie.
Wo pehli mulaaqaat
Posted by: Atul on: May 20, 2011
Sajjad Hussain is regarded as one of the most talented music directors in Hindi movies. A respected music director like Anil Biswas described him as the only original music director in the industry, which is a very high praise indeed.
Naseeb hoga mera meharbaan kabhi na kabhi
Posted by: Atul on: May 19, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. A wonderful “searching-for-a-lost-one” song. The movie is Chaalis Din (1959) with a reasonably good set of actors, i.e. Premnath, Shakeela, Nishi, KN Singh, Maruti, Shammi, Chaman Puri, Kuckoo etc. This particular song is picturized on [...]
Aaya re aaya re mera jaane bahaar aayaa
Posted by: Atul on: May 19, 2011
I am aware of two movies called “Insaaf”. Both of them were B grade movies that were released 10 years apart. “Insaaf” (1956) had Ajit, Nalini Jaiwant,Kamal Kapoor,Helen,Durga Khote etc whereas “Insaaf” (1966) had Prithviraj Kapoor,Dara Singh,Indira,Helen,Sundar,Tuntun,Azaad,Lalita Pawaar,Pravin Chaudhary etc. Both these movies had nice songs in them.
Aasmaan se door taaraa ho gayaa
Posted by: Atul on: May 19, 2011
“Darogaa jee” (1949) is a movie that had Jairaj (playing the title role),Nargis,Neelam Mishra,M L Bohra, Nisaar etc in it.The movie has been forgotten, but that has not stopped me from discussing as many as two songs from this movie in the past.
Ham apne dard ka kisaa sunaaye jaate hain
Posted by: Atul on: May 19, 2011
Here is a wonderful song that I discovered just now. To be honest I had discovered it some one year back but I had not listened to it and then I had forgotten all about it. Just now I listened to this song and I was amazed at how modern this song sounds even today, [...]
Pyaasi hirni ban ban dhaaye
Posted by: Atul on: May 18, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. The 1965 movie Do Dil is a standard fare lost-and-found prince heir to the kingdom throne, palace intrigues, and struggles to get control of the kingdom. It was a time in the Hindi movies that [...]
Chhaayi ghataa bijli kadki
Posted by: Atul on: May 18, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Here is another gem of a duet from the film Apna Haath Jagannath (1960). Three song from this movie are already discussed in these pages. This one is a fun filled duet by Kishore and [...]
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