Archive for the ‘Meera Bhajan’ Category
Ae ri main to prem deewaani
Posted on: April 23, 2013
When I saw the lyrics of this song from “Jogan” (1950), I thought that this song was discussed long back, but when I checked the list of songs of “Jogan” (1950) appearing in the blog, this song was missing much to my surprise. Then I realised that the song that I was confusing it with was the song Ae ri main to prem deewaani mera dard na jaane koye from “Naubahaar” (1952).
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Ramaiyya bin neend na aawe
Posted on: April 3, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the 30s and 40s, two groups of female actor-singers emerged prominently. The first group excelled in both acting and singing. Barring a few exceptions, they confined to playback singing on themselves. This group consisted mainly of Khursheed, Kanan Devi, Noor Jahan and Suraiya. The second group though started their filmy carrier as actor-singer in a smaller way, later they concentrated mainly on playback singing. This group comprised mainly of Rajkumari, Amirbai Karnataki, and Zohrabai Ambalewaali.
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Nand nandan bilmaai
Posted on: January 28, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
January 28th is the birth day of playback singer Suman Kalyanpur. She is a living example of how the career of a talented singer can be marred by a close resemblance of the voice of the numero uno singer in the field, in her case Lata Mangeshkar. Naturally, film industry preferred the reigning queen rather than giving enough opportunity to Suman Kalyanpur to prove her worth. She was mostly used as a substitute for Lata Mangeshkar when the latter was not available for recording the songs. Alternatively, she would get the singing assignments in low budget films. In the circumstances, I thought that she would have utilised her spare time in recording many NFSs. I find that even in respect of NFSs, Suman Kalyanpur is lagging in numbers in comparison to other top playback singers like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh etc. Was she really interested in pursuing playback singing career ? She is known to be a very private and low profile person. Only those who were close to her could get to know her mind. It took Ameen Sayani more than 40 years to persuade her to give an interview for a radio programme. Subsequently, she has given a couple of interviews through which we have come across some more information about her singing career.
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Ae ri main to prem deewaani
Posted on: December 13, 2012
“Meera” (1979) was produced by Premji and J N Manchanda and directed by Gulzar. The movie had Hema Malini, Vinod Khanna, Shammi Kapoor, Vidya Sinha, Amjad Khan, Bharat Bhushan, Dr Shreeram Lagoo, Dina Pathak etc in it.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In my younger days, I disliked the traditional classical vocal music as I had no patience to listen to a couple of verses umpteen times with longish alaaps. I used to feel that the ‘progression’ in the vocal music was too slow for me to get interested in listening to such recitals. However, I liked the filmy and non-filmy songs based on classical ragas as those would get over in about 3 minutes. My taste on traditional classical vocal music changed when I bought a LP of Pandit D V Paluskar in early 70s mainly for 5 devotional songs contained in the one side, the other side being his full length vocal recital on raag Shri. This LP was a turning point for me and I started liking Hindustani classical music. I felt that he must be a great classical vocalist whose vocal music sounded great to my untrained ears.
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“Meera” (1979) was a Suchitra International Production. It was Produced by Premji and directed by Gulzar. The movie had Hema Malini, Vinod Khanna, Amjad Khan, Shammi Kapoor, Vidya Sinha, Dina Pathak, Dr.Shree Ram Lagoo, OmShiv Puri, Bharat Bhooshan, A.K.Hangal, Dinesh Thakur, Sudha Chopra, Kamal Deep, T.P.Jain, Gauri Kamat, Gurbachan Singh, Shahu Modak, Nasir, Maqsood, J.N.Manchanda, Ashish Chatterjee, Sadhana Khote etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the early era of films, the line between the various language films was very thin. Films were often made taking inspiration from other language films. Many times films were made on topics related to other languages. For example, films on Sant Tukaram, Dnyaneshwar, Sant Sakhu, Gora Kumbhar and even Namdeo-the saints popular in Maharashtra-were made in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu languages. Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films were also made on the lives of on Sant Tulsidas and Kabir.
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Preet kiye dukh hoye
Posted on: July 2, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I remember the film GARAM COAT(1955) mainly because I had listened to one of its songs ‘jogiyaa se preet kiye dukh hoye’ in my friend’s house sometime in early 70s. Thereafter, I do not remember to have heard this song on the radio or any other medium until a few days back on YT.
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“Johny Mera Naam” (1970) was a Trimurti Films Provate Limited production. It was produced by Gulshan Rai and directed by Vijay Anand. The movie had Dev Anand, Hema Malini, Pran, PremNath, Randhawa, Padma Khanna, Jeevan, Jagadish Raj, Sulochana Latkar, I.S.Johar, Ifthekar, Sajjan, Sham Kumar, Tabassum, Dulari, Madhup Sharma, Anil, Chander, Mridula, Radheshyam, Bihari, V.Gopal, Keshav Rana, Subroto, Baby Reshma, Saudagar Singh, Hardith Singh etc in it.
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Main to Ram ratan dhan paayo
Posted on: May 28, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog.
Many have sung Meera bhajans – from classical greats like M.S. Subbulakshmi to Bollywood greats such as Lata Mangeshkar … and so may in between – and to their credit. But for me, Juthika Roy’s vocals and expression seem to be made for Meera bhajans. Her Meera numbers touch even my atheist heart! Juthika Roy’s private numbers are galore, but she seems to have sang for only three movies: Lalkar (1944) under the baton of C Ramchandra, Ratnadeep (1951) under Robin Chatterjee (Hindi and Bangla versions) and the Bangla movie Dhooli (1954) under Ranjan Sarkar.
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