Posted by: Atul on: May 21, 2012
“Neeli Aankhen” (1962) was a Society Pictures Production. It was directed by Ved Mohan. The movie had Ajit, Shakila, Helen, Tiwari, Johnny Walker, W. M. Khan, Shetty, Raj Mehra, Tuntun etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 30, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Ever since Ghulam Haider introduced dholak (belonging to the percussion family) as a major musical instrument for song compositions in the super hit film ‘Khazaanchi’ (1941), it has become an inseparable part of Hindi [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 20, 2012
“Bandish” (1955) was a Basu Chitra Mandir Production. It was directed by Satyen Bose. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari,Mehmood, Pratima Devi,Bipin Gupta, Meena Kumari, Daisy Irani, Bhanu Banerji, N. Hussain, Sajjan, Shammi, Indira, Narbada Shanker etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 8, 2012
When I saw the lyrics of this song sent by Prakashchandra, who mentioned it as a rare melodious duet, I wondered what was this rare song. When I played this song, I immediately recognised this song as one that I had heard in the past without being aware of its details.
Posted by: Atul on: April 5, 2012
“My Friend” (1974) was produced by Punamchand Shah and N Patel. This movie was directed by M Rehman, who was a son of Naushad. Naushad was the music director of this movie.
Posted by: Atul on: March 13, 2012
“Majhli Didi” (1967) was a movie based on the backdrop of Bengal. As a result, rivers and boats and majhis played important roles in this movie.
Posted by: Atul on: March 6, 2012
“Majhli Didi” (1967) is a movie which was based on a novel by Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay. The movie was produced by K G Pictures. Kochi Sarkaar and Gopal Mukherji were the producers and the movie was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. Nabebdu Ghosh wrote the screenplay.
Posted by: Atul on: March 3, 2012
1970s, especially the first half of it was ruled by R D Burman as a music director. So much so that the other music directors too began to compose music that sounded like R D Burman’s music. And of course they began to use the voice of Kishore Kumar also, who had become the top [...]
Posted by: Atul on: February 21, 2012
Om Prakash Chhibber, known only by his first name, viz Om Prakash was born on 19 december 1919 and he died on 21 february 1998. In his four decades long career, he worked in some 307 movies.
Posted by: Atul on: February 15, 2012
Shaharyar, who died on 13th february 2012 wrote lyrics in only half a dozen movies, but his output as a movie lyricist was of a high calibre, as befitting a Jnanpeeth award winner, the highest literary award in India.
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