Archive for December 2011
Ye saal ki aakhhri raat hai
Posted by: Atul on: December 31, 2011
There are songs for various occasions, like festivals, and also for certain days, viz the first day of the month, but I was not aware that there was a Hindi movie song for the last day of the year too.
Ae dilrubaa kal ki baat kal ke saath gayee
Posted by: Atul on: December 31, 2011
If new year is the day of making resolutions (only to give them up after a few days ), then last day of the year is the day of bidding farewell to the old year and welcoming the new year, hoping that the new year would bring in better luck than the previous year. Let [...]
Kho diye hain sanam teri talaash mein
Posted by: Atul on: December 30, 2011
“Teri Talaash Mein” (1968) is by now an obscure movie. This B grade movie was an A G Movie arts production. Kewal Mishra was the director of the movie. Its “star” cast consisted of names like Kumkum, Shailesh Kumar, Mohan Choti, Madan Puri, Amaranth, K N Singh, Indira etc.
Aayi hain bahaaren mitey zulmo sitam
Posted by: Atul on: December 30, 2011
“Raam Aur Shyaam” (1967) was a Vijaya International production. It was directed by Chanakya. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Mumtaz, Nirupa Roy, Kanhaiyalal, Nazir Hussain, Sajjan, Mukri, Amar, Leela Misra, Zebunissa, Farida, Pran etc in it.
Ye bahaaron ka samaa
Posted by: Atul on: December 30, 2011
Datta Naik was born in Goa, which was then a Portuguese colony. He came to Bombay to try his luck as a music director. Initially he acted as an assistant to S D Burman before starting out as an independent music director. He changed his name to N Datta by re ordering the sequence of [...]
Tum na samjhoge kabhi…ulajh gayin ho saajna tose ankhiyaan
Posted by: Atul on: December 30, 2011
“Seedha Rasta” (1947) was a movie produced by Prabhat Film company. This movie has Shahu Modak and Kamla Kotnis in lead roles.
Jeewan jyoti bujhti jaaye
Posted by: Atul on: December 30, 2011
- In: Actor-Singer song | Bhajan
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In Hindi movies, a female character singing a bhajan in front of the idol of a God used to be a standard scene from 1950s to 1970s. I have always wondered who pioneered this genre of songs. Now I believe that I have got my answer. Having watched a few such songs from the earlier [...]
Samay tu dheere dheere chal
Posted by: Atul on: December 29, 2011
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Today is Rajesh Khanna’s birthday. His name always evokes memories for me because he was the colossus when I was first beginning to learn Hindi and watch Hindi movies in my life. Here are my [...]
Zindagi ek safar hai suhaana
Posted by: Atul on: December 29, 2011
Some newspapers tend to have columns called “This day that year” or similar. In that column, they discuss the important events that happened on that day in the past. Today is 29th of december 2011. If I am asked to describe what I did in the past years on this day then I will draw [...]
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