Posted by: Atul on: December 26, 2011
“Aarambh” (1976) is a recent movie by the standards of this movie which swas released at a time when I was at my precocious best as a follower of Hindi movies, but even I failed to notice anything about this movie at that time. So this movie must have been a big failure at the [...]
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. Khaiber (1954) is a film that is produced by Kamal Kapoor, who is also the hero in this film. Produced under the banner of Kapil Pictures, Bombay, the film is directed by Kedar Kapoor. The [...]
Posted by: Atul on: December 26, 2011
“Aabsaar” (1953) is not a movie too many people have heard of. Hardly any information is available about this movie on internet. So it is obvious that this movie may have been a commercial failure at the box office.
Posted by: Atul on: December 26, 2011
When you seek to look for obscue songs from yesteryears, you often come across unheard of gems. Many a times, these songs are sung/ created by the usual suspects, but sometimes they are created by people we normally would not suspect of being able to sing songs, leave alone singing songs that can be regarded [...]
Posted by: Atul on: December 25, 2011
Naushad was born on 25th december. To mark this occasion, here is a song from “Sohni Mahiwal” (1958). This song is sung by Rafi, who collaboration with Naushad yielded several memorable songs.
Posted by: Atul on: December 25, 2011
If 24th december was the birthday of Rafi then his close musical associate Naushad was not too far behind. Naushad was born on 25th december ! So today (25th december) is the day when we in this blog will pay our musical tributes to Naushad,the great pioneer in the field of Hindi movie music.
Posted by: Atul on: December 25, 2011
“Chakori” (1949) is by now an obscure movie. This movie was a Ramesh Pictures production. It was directed by Ramnarayan Dube. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Nalini Jaywant, Om Prakash, Manorama, Cuckoo etc in this movie.
Posted by: Atul on: December 25, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Remembering Rafi Saab on his 87th birth anniversary. ‘Saawan’ (1959) is a film produced under the banner of NC Films, Bombay. The banner ‘NC Films’ belongs to the Behl family. Music director Hansraj Behl and [...]
Posted by: Atul on: December 24, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Remembering Rafi Saab on his 87th birth anniversary It is thirty one years now that Rafi Saab left this mortal world. As per Hindu scriptures, ‘shabd’ or word / sound is eternal. And thus the [...]
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