Posted by: Atul on: May 17, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. There are many flavors of ‘rootthnaa’ and ‘manaanna’ in Hindi films. There are many songs that we like, which are about one person, lady or the gentleman, one of whom is upset and offended about something, [...]
Posted by: Atul on: March 22, 2012
“Bambai Ka Chor” (1962) was a New Original Pictures presentation. It was directed by S D Narag. Starcast of the movie included names like Kishore Kumar, Mala Sinha, Helen, Pratima Devi, Honey Irani, Amar, Krishna Kumari, Iftekhar etc.
Posted by: Atul on: February 25, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Tolstoy is reported to have said “Music is the shorthand of emotion”. Nietzche is supposed to have said “Without music, life would be a mistake”. A quote attributed to Aldous Huxley goes “After silence, that [...]
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 23, 2011
“Chunariya” (1948) is by now an obscure movie. What I know about this movie is that this movie had Wasti, Manorama, Pran etc in it. I have discussed two songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from the movie. This is a light hearted song where the lady is calling her [...]
Posted by: Atul on: December 23, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Hansraj Behl made his composing debut in Hindi films, in the year 1946. As per records, his first film released is ‘Pujaari’ (1946). In the same year, two more films were also released with music [...]
Posted by: Atul on: November 10, 2011
“Asli Naqli” (1962) is a L B Films production and it was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Dev Anand, Sadhana, Hari Shivdasani, Sandhya Roy, Nazir Hussain, Anwar, Mukri, Keshto Mukherjee, Leela Chitnis in it.
Posted by: Atul on: October 18, 2011
In Hindi movies, there are songs for all occasions including songs meant to assuage the hurt feelings of the beloved. Now, how can one go about assuaging the hurt felings of one’s beloved ? The common and gentlemanly method is to say sorry. But then Hindi movie heroes (like Government employees) can never see the [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 14, 2011
“Madhosh”(1951) is a movie that had Manhar Desai, Meena Kumari and Usha Kiran in lead roles. Talat Mehmood sung for Manhar Desai, whereas Lata sang for both the leading ladies. Thankfully the two leading ladies did not sing a duet together, else we do not know what the music directors would have done.
Posted by: Atul on: April 10, 2011
Here is a cute and lovely song that I was not aware of till a few hours ago.
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