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Archive for December 2011

Mere pardesi mehmaan

Posted by: Atul on: December 28, 2011

“Andher Nagri Chaupat Raja” (1955) was a movie produced by the production house of Chitramahal. Shamim Bhagat directed the movie. The “star” cast of this B grade movie included names like Chitra, B. M. Vyas, Uma Devi, Gope, Amarnath, David Abraham etc.

Dil leke dil diya hai

Posted by: Atul on: December 28, 2011

Love is the most common theme in Hindi movie songs. There are many variations of this theme and one of them is light teasing between lovers.

Main jab gaaun geet suhaanaa

Posted by: Atul on: December 28, 2011

Originally written by me, this writeup has subsequently been thoroughly revamped and rewritten by Sudhir, following his detailed and thorough investigation into this song “Amar Raj” (1946) is a movie which was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had Trilok Kapoor and Nirupa Roy from what little I can gather on internet. Here is a [...]

So jaa baaba mere so jaa

Posted by: Atul on: December 27, 2011

Lullabies are a much loved category of songs in Hindi movies. Most lullabies are sung by female singers as one would expect. But there are exceptions where male singers too have sung lullabies.

Meri jholi ko bhar de

Posted by: Atul on: December 27, 2011

“Maan Ke Aansoo” (1959) is a movie which had actors like Ajit, Nalini Jaiwant, Lalita Pawar, Kammo, Agha, Jankidas, Tuntun etc in it. It was a Sharad Productions movie and it was directed by Dhirubhai Desai.

Duniya ne hamen do din rahne na diya mil ke

Posted by: Atul on: December 27, 2011

“Shikaari” (1946) is a movie which had Ashok Kumar, Paro, Veera, Ram Shukul, Leela Mishra etc in it. This song was one of the earliest movies of S D Burman as a music director and this movie had some nice songs in it.

Saagar mein uthhin do maujen

Posted by: Atul on: December 27, 2011

“Qeemat” (1946) is as obscure a movie as any. Hardly any information about this movie is available online.

Chanda des piyaa ke jaa

Posted by: Atul on: December 27, 2011

“Bharthari” (1944) is a movie that I became aware of when I discovered a wonderful song from this movie and discussed it in this blog. No information of any sort was available on this movie on internet till then. But our in house encyclopaedia, Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh had exhaustive information about him which he shared [...]

Chale aao chale aao chale aao jee

Posted by: Atul on: December 27, 2011

The way we were discussing Hansraj Bahl compositions in the recent past, regulars of the blog may have rightly guessed that Hansraj Bahl was reaching his milestone of 100 songs in this blog. And indeed he has now scored his century of songs in this blog. This is the 51st such occasion in the blog, [...]

Nainon ki nagri mein aa ke

Posted by: Atul on: December 26, 2011

This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Welcome all to the 5200th offering on this blog. An enchanting journey that continues to grow from strength to strength, has reached another landmark today. It seemed just like yesterday that we hit the 5000 [...]


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